QA Manual - Senior Engineer

Job Description

Must Haves:

Manual Testing, Data Testing, API Testing, SQL, Test Case Design, STLC, Jira, Cloud Concepts (AWS)

Good to Have:

Cucumber BDD, DBT testing exposure, Databricks SQL/PySpark understanding, BI Testing (Sigma/Tableau/Power BI)

Responsibilities:

Functional & Web Testing

• Test web-based components (if any) that interact with the data platform such as admin portals, configuration panels, or data access layers.

Defect Management & Collaboration

• Identify, reproduce, and document and trace defects in Jira, ensuring proper data-level evidence.
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineers, DBT developers, and Cloud teams to understand transformations, data flows, and architecture impacts.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies—stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives.

Quality Process & Contribution

• Contribute to data quality processes—validation rules, sampling methodologies, reconciliation checks, regression strategies.
• Continuously improve test artifacts, test data, and quality coverage.
• Stay current with modern data engineering and cloud testing practices.

Skills:

• Strong SQL skills with ability to write complex joins, aggregations, window functions, and data comparisons.
• Exposure to AWS services relevant to data workflows.
• Experience in API testing (Postman, Swagger, REST/JSON validation, Thunderclient).
• Test management experience using Zephyr, Jira.
• Strong experience in creating test plans, test scenarios, regression packs.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.

Mandatory Competencies