Data QA Lead - ETL & Data Quality Champion

Axos Business Center; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Axos Business Center is seeking an Embedded QA Lead for a data engineering delivery team. You will own QA from refinement to release, guide engineers, and ensure test coverage, performance, and security gates are met before promotions.

The role requires 6+ years in QA testing with leadership experience, strong SQL and Python, and hands-on ETL/ELT testing across SSIS, dbt, Fivetran, and Databricks. Excellent communication is essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in QA testing, including 3+ years in a data engineering or data warehousing environment and 2+ years leading or coordinating testers
• Strong SQL for data validation, reconciliation and profiling; working Python for test scripting
• Hands-on experience testing ETL/ELT pipelines built with tools such as SSIS, dbt, Fivetran or Python-based ingestion
• Experience with test planning, estimation and risk-based test coverage in agile sprints
• Experience with defect management and test tracking in Azure DevOps or equivalent
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to explain data quality issues to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently under minimal supervision and a strong track record of meeting delivery commitments.

Responsibilities

• Act as the QA owner for one delivery team: participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, review and retrospective
• Apply the shift-left, test-driven model: agree acceptance criteria and test design with the developer and business analyst before development starts, so tests lead and code follows
• Plan and estimate QA effort per work item; commit QA capacity at sprint planning and manage it through the sprint
• Lead and mentor the QA engineers assigned to the team; review their test designs, queries and defect reports
• Design and execute data validation, source to target, integration, regression and post-production checks across SSIS, dbt, Fivetran, Python ingestion and Databricks pipelines
• Own the team's quality gate results: confirm accuracy, latency, performance and security gates are met before each environment promotion and give the QA sign-off for release
• Log, triage and track defects in Azure DevOps; drive resolution with developers and communicate impact to the business analyst and product owner
• Track and report team level quality metrics: first-pass quality, defect escape rate, automated regression coverage and QA cycle time
• Coordinate knowledge transfer and shadow coverage during transition, and maintain the team's test assets and runbooks
• Lead root cause analysis for post-production defects affecting the team's scope and implement preventive test coverage
• Use AI/LLM-powered tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to accelerate test case generation, synthetic data and query review, validating AI-assisted output before use
• Communicate QA status, risks and release readiness to the Practice Lead and US stakeholders.

Skills

QA testing

Data warehousing

Test leadership

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT testing

Azure DevOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/CE

Tools

SSIS

dbt

Fivetran

Python

Databricks

Azure DevOps

Job description

Axos Business Center is seeking an Embedded QA Lead for a data engineering delivery team. You will own QA from refinement to release, guide engineers, and ensure test coverage, performance, and security gates are met before promotions.

The role requires 6+ years in QA testing with leadership experience, strong SQL and Python, and hands-on ETL/ELT testing across SSIS, dbt, Fivetran, and Databricks. Excellent communication is essential.