Qa Engineer (Sdet) - 8 Month Ftc

AND Digital Limited; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Share scheme

Training budget

Flexifund for benefits

Job summary

AND Digital is seeking a data-focused QA Engineer (SDET) to ensure the quality, accuracy, reliability, and performance of data pipelines and integrations across the data platform. You will test Snowflake, SQL-based transformations, Apache Flink pipelines, and end-to-end data integrations.

Collaborate with Data Engineers and Software Engineers to design effective testing strategies and improve test automation.

Qualifications

• Experience testing data pipelines (batch and streaming).
• Strong SQL skills and data model validation with Snowflake.
• Familiarity with data quality checks and regression testing.

Responsibilities

• Test batch and streaming data pipelines for accuracy and reliability.
• Validate transformations and business rules using SQL and Snowflake.
• Test streaming processing with Flink for data consistency and fault tolerance.
• Verify end-to-end data flows between source systems and targets.
• Develop and maintain automated data validation tests.

Skills

Data testing

SQL

Snowflake

Flink

Test automation

CI/CD

Tools

Snowflake

Apache Flink

SQL

Job description

Job Title: QA Engineer (SDET) – Data Engineering & Data Pipelines

Role Type: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Who We Are:
AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a data-focused QA Engineer (SDET) to ensure the quality, accuracy, reliability, and performance of data pipelines and integrations across our data platform. The role will focus on testing Snowflake, SQL-based data transformations, Apache Flink pipelines, and end-to-end data integrations.

The successful candidate will work closely with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, and other stakeholders to design and implement effective testing strategies, validate data flows, identify data quality issues, and improve test automation across the data engineering lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Pipeline Testing: Test batch and streaming pipelines to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and reliability.
• SQL & Snowflake Testing: Validate data transformations, business rules, data models, and source-to-target reconciliation using SQL and Snowflake.
• Flink Pipeline Testing: Test streaming data processing, event handling, data consistency, and fault tolerance.
• Data Integration Testing: Verify end-to-end data flows between source systems, processing platforms, and target systems.
• Test Automation: Develop and maintain automated data validation and regression tests.
• Data Quality & Performance: Identify data anomalies and validate pipeline performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Defect Management: Investigate data issues, document defects, and collaborate with engineering teams to resolve them.
• Continuous Improvement: Integrate automated testing into CI/CD workflows and improve overall test coverage.

Why join AND Digital?

We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
• A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
• A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
• An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.
• Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
• A safe environment for you be yourself and challenge yourself.

Benefits

• 26 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• 13 days per year for innovation or upskilling
• 2 days per year for volunteering
• Share scheme
• A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
• PLUS many more

For a full list of benefits - click here

Equal Opportunities Statement

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.