Global IT Quality Engineer Senior Specialist - Data Layer

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading consulting firm as a Quality Engineer focused on data-driven solutions. In this role, you'll implement testing strategies for scalable data pipelines and ensure the integrity of critical data flows, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ideal for candidates with a strong background in quality engineering and testing in cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Quality Engineering, focusing on data validation.
• At least 3 years in Automation Testing with Java or similar.
• Experience with AWS data pipelines and analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust testing strategies for data pipelines.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Uphold engineering and quality best practices across data infrastructure.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation development

Agile methodologies

QA testing frameworks

Python scripting

JIRA

Java

Selenium WebDriver

Functional testing

Regression Testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Electronics/Computer Science

Tools

Charles Proxy

Git

Postman

Datadog

Job description

Job Description

Locations: Boston | Atlanta | Canary Wharf

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation— inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

Join a dynamic team transforming our organization into a data-driven enterprise! The Data Layer Team builds essential data platforms, data products, and capabilities to empower clients and colleagues with high-quality, actionable insights. As a Quality Engineer on this team, you will uphold engineering and quality best practices across our data infrastructure, designing and implementing robust testing strategies to validate scalable data pipelines and ensure data accuracy, integrity, and performance.

You will collaborate closely with data engineers, solution architects, product owners, and technical leads to deliver trusted data solutions that power critical business insights. This role is ideal for someone passionate about data quality, engineering excellence, and shaping an enterprise-wide data ecosystem.

You're Good At

• Strong knowledge of manual testing & automation development
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Scaled Agile
• Proficiency with QA testing frameworks and tools
• Knowledge of validating streaming data flows and asynchronous processing
• Python scripting for test automation of data pipelines, API testing, and custom validations
• Familiarity with JIRA & Zephyr tools
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Testing Life Cycle & Automation test life cycle
• Knowledge of Java & Automated Testing using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Maven
• Experience in writing Test Scenarios, Test Cases, executing tests, and defect reporting
• Experience with Functional, System, Integration, and Regression Testing

What You'll Bring

Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT/Electronics/Computer Science

Experience: 6+ years in Quality engineering, with a focus on data layer and tag validation; at least 3 years in Automation Testing using Java or related technologies; experience testing data pipelines and infrastructure within AWS environments; validating high-volume data pipelines, schemas, data quality, and transformation logic; testing digital analytics tools like Adobe Analytics, GA4, Mixpanel; using debugging tools (Charles Proxy, Fiddler, browser DevTools); CI/CD tools (Git, GHA), test automation frameworks (BDD); API testing with Postman; observability tools (Datadog); test artefact creation, test management, defect management tools; certifications in Quality Assurance; experience validating AI/ML data pipelines and models; strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law. BCG is an E-Verify Employer. More information on E-Verify.