Senior Associate-Front Office QA Engineer

Acuity Analytics; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Analytics in India’s Maharashtra region seeks a Data QA Engineer to lead validation and regression testing across capital-markets data pipelines. You will build Python/SQL-based validation frameworks, ensure data accuracy, and partner with engineering to embed strong data-quality controls.

The role emphasizes automation, source-to-target checks, and cloud-based execution across post-trade data flows, derivatives, and fixed income workflows.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of hands-on Data QA, Data Engineering QA, or Python automation roles.
• Capital markets domain knowledge, especially fixed income workflows.
• Strong Python skills for data validation and framework development.
• Proficiency in SQL and complex queries for source-to-target validation.

Responsibilities

• Perform source-to-target data validation across legacy and modern systems.
• Build automation-first regression testing frameworks using Python and SQL utilities.
• Validate ETL/ELT pipelines and post-trade data flows in cloud environments.
• Design reusable test cases and regression packs for data-quality assurance.
• Integrate tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Log defects with evidence, impact analysis, and business context.

Skills

Data QA

Python

PySpark

SQL

Automation

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitLab

AutoSys

Test automation

Post-trade data

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Airflow

Job description

Job Purpose

Looking for a Data QA Engineer to lead data validation and regression testing across capital-markets data pipelines spanning legacy and modern platforms. The role will focus on ensuring data accuracy, completeness, consistency, integrity, and adherence to business rules through source-to-target validation, schema checks, reconciliation, lineage review, and automation-led regression testing. The candidate will build reusable Python/SQL-based validation frameworks, support batch and cloud execution, validate post-trade data flows, identify data anomalies, and partner with engineering and business teams to embed strong data-quality controls. The ideal candidate combines data QA expertise, capital-markets domain understanding, automation-first thinking, and strong ownership of data quality across environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform source-to-target data validation across legacy and modern systems, including SQL Server and cloud-based data environments.
• Validate data accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, duplication handling, referential integrity, schema structures, metadata, lineage, and business-rule conformance.
• Build and maintain automation-first regression testing frameworks using Python, PySpark, SQL, and reusable validation utilities.
• Execute field-level, dataset-level, transformation-level, and aggregate-level data checks across source, staging, warehouse, data lake, and downstream systems.
• Validate ETL/ELT pipelines, post-trade data flows, stored procedures, batch jobs, and cloud-based execution workflows.
• Perform testing of derivative products and workflows including Options, Swaps, Futures, and Forwards.
• Validate business workflows covering bonds, treasuries, corporate debt, and other fixed income instruments
• Verify trade booking, valuations, cashflows, margin processing, lifecycle events, and settlement workflows across asset classes.
• Design reusable test cases, validation scenarios, reconciliation checks, automated scripts, and regression packs for repeatable data-quality assurance.
• Write, optimize, and troubleshoot complex SQL queries and stored procedures across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or similar platforms.
• Translate business rules, stored procedure logic, and post-trade process flows into automated validation scripts and assertions.
• Build Python-based utilities, APIs, CLI tools, and reusable frameworks to support data validation, orchestration, API integrations, and reporting workflows.
• Integrate regression tests, data validation checks, SQL deployables, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, or equivalent tools.
• Automate execution of AutoSys jobs, batch processes, stored procedures, and validation scripts across development, UAT, and production environments.
• Work with engineering teams to embed data quality controls into pipelines, releases, and operational workflows.
• Identify data anomalies, schema mismatches, duplicate records, null-handling issues, transformation failures, reconciliation breaks, and integrity violations.
• Log defects with clear evidence, impact analysis, root-cause observations, and business context.
• Support capital markets and post-trade validation across allocations, clearing, settlement, confirmations, reconciliations, market data, reference data, and downstream reporting.

Key competencies

• 5–7 years of hands-on experience in Data QA, Data Engineering QA, or Python-based automation roles.
• Atleast basic domain knowledge of Capital Markets with expertise in Fixed Income products and workflows
• Strong Python skills for data validation, automation framework development, regression testing, and pipeline verification.
• Working knowledge of PySpark for validating large-scale data pipelines and distributed datasets.
• Solid SQL skills for source-to-target validation, reconciliation, complex queries, stored procedures, schema checks, and defect analysis.
• Experience in data QA, ETL/ELT testing, data pipeline testing, and regression testing across legacy and modern platforms.
• Proven experience building automation-first regression frameworks, reusable validation scripts, test cases, and data verification utilities.
• Strong understanding of data quality dimensions including accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness, referential integrity, and business-rule conformance.
• Experience validating metadata, schema structures, data types, constraints, lineage, transformation logic, and downstream outputs .
• Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab, with the ability to integrate automated tests and quality gates into deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with batch orchestration tools such as AutoSys, Control-M, or Airflow.
• Good analytical skills to understand post-trade, financial, market data, or reference data and translate them into repeatable validation scenarios.
• Experience with JIRA, XRay, agile delivery practices, defect management, and QA process governance.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI-assisted tools such as Claude or GitHub Copilot to accelerate test case generation, SQL development, data validation, defect analysis, documentation, and test data creation.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, attention to detail, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Azure, AWS, ADF, containers, Kubernetes, or cloud-based data platforms.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or similar platforms.
• Exposure to Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, cloud data lakes, and Big Data validation.
• Experience validating batch, streaming, real-time, and Kafka-based ingestion pipelines.
• Capital markets domain exposure, especially post-trade, market data, reference data, trade data, or ION/blotter platform integrations.
• Exposure to DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, and code quality tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Sonar, Mend, or ZAP.