QA Test Automation Lead - Data Warehouse & ETL

Huntington National Bank; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid leave programs

Job summary

Huntington National Bank is actively seeking a QA Test Automation Lead to join their Data Lake and Data Warehouse team in Houston, Texas. In this role, you will develop automation test strategies, document SDLC processes, and lead QA for various data projects.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience with ETL testing, test automation, and knowledge of SQL, AWS, and Snowflake. The bank offers a hybrid work environment and competitive benefits including health insurance and retirement plans.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of ETL testing experience in a data warehouse environment.
• 3+ years of experience with test automation.
• 2+ years with Snowflake and AWS, leading QA teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality assurance for data ingestion and integration projects.
• Design and maintain automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure data quality across the ingestion lifecycle.

Skills

ETL testing

Test automation

SQL

Data warehouse concepts

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Cucumber

Selenium

Python

Azure DevOps

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Overview

Huntington Bank is looking for a QA Test Automation Lead in our Data Lake and Data Warehouse team. In this role you will be part of a team working to develop solutions enabling the business to leverage data as an asset at the bank. As a QA Test Automation Lead, you will work to develop automation test strategies and frameworks ensuring all IT SDLC processes are documented and practiced, working closely with multiple technologies teams across the enterprise. Key technologies include Azure DevOps, Python, AWS S3, Snowflake, Zena, and DataStage.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality assurance efforts for multiple concurrent projects focused on data ingestion and integration, ensuring alignment with banking regulatory standards.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to support scalable and secure data operations.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies covering System Integration Testing (SIT) and closely partner with the team for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Collaborate with data engineers, developers, project managers, and compliance teams to ensure data quality, integrity, and traceability throughout the ingestion lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement in QA processes
• Design and implement a scalable test automation framework and strategy.
• Create daily/weekly test execution metrics and status reporting.
• Assist the Project Managers/Scrum Masters to drive project team to defect resolution.
• Leverage existing tools/techniques to streamline and automate wherever possible.
• Actively participate in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance.
• Actively participate in the review of project requirements, data mappings and technical design specifications.
• Analyze data, troubleshoot data issues, and create action plans to address data quality issues.
• Collaborate with project team on defect analysis and triage.
• Participate in production implementation verification and being accountable for validating system quality.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of ETL testing experience in data warehouse environment
• 3+ years of test automation experience
• 2+ years of experience with Snowflake and AWS
• 2+ Experience leading QA Analysts on a project team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services (banking) industry.
• Strong experience with SQL, ETL testing, and data warehouse concepts (e.g., star/snowflake schema, OLAP)
• Proficiency in test automation tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, PyTest, or DBT tests.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, AWS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps).
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.
• Detail oriented and highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Work Arrangement

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Remote roles may have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation Range: 70,000.00 - 140,000.00 USD Annual. The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on location, experience, and education. Colleagues in this position are eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan. Huntington provides benefits including health insurance, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and PTO.

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.