Data Platform QA Lead — Quality & Impact

Kaluza; West of England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Discretionary bonus

Flex Fund 5% of salary

Learning budget

Home office budget

Climate action app

Job summary

Kaluza is seeking a QA Lead (Data) to define and drive the testing approach for our Data Org. You will partner with Data Engineering, Product, and clients to ensure quality across the software delivery lifecycle, with a focus on data systems, ETL, and schema validation.

You will lead quality initiatives, define gates for releases, and coach teams to embrace a test-first mindset, while reporting metrics and maintaining strong client communications.

Qualifications

• Proven QA strategies, processes and methodologies, incl. test plans and scripts for complex software.
• Agile teams with a test-first mindset; manage priorities, scope and risk to maximise testing impact.
• Data testing methods (quality checks, schema validation, ETL/migration testing) and SQL proficiency.
• Experience building quality metrics, dashboards and reporting for stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration and communication with development, product and client teams at all levels.
• Ability to influence across engineering, product and leadership; coach teams to own quality.
• Experience with client delivery, defining and reporting quality metrics; drive improvement plans.
• Nice to have: test automation frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, AI tools for data issues, data governance familiarity, Python and BI tools (Power BI/Looker).

Responsibilities

• Define and own the test strategy and test plans for the Data Org based on risk, criticality, and impact to business and clients.
• Create and deliver test plans for complex data systems: functional, transformation, schema, ETL/migration testing.
• Set quality gates to determine release readiness for client environments.
• Log, triage, prioritise and track defects; drive root-cause analysis.
• Select and maintain testing tools and CI/CD automation.
• Support queries on test data and releases; maintain client confidence with clear communication.
• Influence engineers, data analysts, and leadership to adopt a test-first mindset.
• Report on test progress, quality trends, risks to stakeholders; raise blockers early.
• Document quality standards, test coverage, decisions; disclose known issues and risks.
• Act as SME on data testing and data quality practices, incl. data quality checks.

Skills

QA strategy

Agile testing

Data testing

SQL proficiency

Quality metrics

Stakeholder comms

Influence & coaching

Client delivery

Test automation

CI/CD quality gates

AI data tools

Data governance

Python & visualization

Tools

Power BI

Looker

Python

Job description

Kaluza is seeking a QA Lead (Data) to define and drive the testing approach for our Data Org. You will partner with Data Engineering, Product, and clients to ensure quality across the software delivery lifecycle, with a focus on data systems, ETL, and schema validation.

You will lead quality initiatives, define gates for releases, and coach teams to embrace a test-first mindset, while reporting metrics and maintaining strong client communications.