Quality Assurance Lead

Talent Groups; Tempe (AZ); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 131,000; Part time

Job summary

Talent Groups seeks a Senior QA Lead to drive data engineering and analytics quality. The role is predominantly backend data testing (ETL/ELT), data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance, with strong SQL and Snowflake expertise.

This hands-on leadership position guides QA efforts across pipelines and data platforms within an Agile environment. Strong experience in data migrations, data transformations, and mentoring junior QA resources is required, along with a proven ability to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of QA, data warehouse, ETL, or data quality testing experience.
• Significant Snowflake experience.
• Strong ETL and ELT testing experience.
• Data migration and source to target reconciliation experience.
• Experience validating data transformations and business rules.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• QA leadership or mentoring experience.
• Agile and Scrum experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA activities for data engineering and analytics projects.
• Develop and execute test plans for data pipelines and platforms.
• Perform ETL and ELT testing and backend data validation.
• Validate data transformations, business rules, and data integrity.
• Develop source to target reconciliation for data migrations.
• Perform data quality testing across large datasets.
• Write SQL queries to validate data and investigate discrepancies.
• Support test automation using Snowflake and other tools.
• Perform root cause analysis and defect resolution.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and mentor junior QA resources.

Skills

QA leadership

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Agile / Scrum

Mentoring

Tools

Snowflake

SQL

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Location: Tempe, AZ | Remote, EST preferred

Employment Type: 18+ Month W2 Contract

C2C and Sponsorship: Not Available

About the Role

Talent Groups is seeking a Senior QA Lead to support a major data engineering and analytics initiative. This is a highly hands on role with 85 to 90 percent focused on backend data testing, including ETL and ELT testing, data validation, data quality, and reconciliation.

This is not a UI focused QA role. Strong SQL and Snowflake experience are required.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA activities for data engineering and analytics projects
• Develop and execute test plans for data pipelines and platforms
• Perform ETL and ELT testing and backend data validation
• Validate data transformations, business rules, and data integrity
• Develop source to target reconciliation for data migrations
• Perform data quality testing across large datasets
• Write SQL queries to validate data and investigate discrepancies
• Support test automation using Snowflake and other tools
• Perform root cause analysis and defect resolution
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and mentor junior QA resources

Required Experience

• 7+ years of QA, data warehouse, ETL, or data quality testing experience
• Significant Snowflake experience
• Strong ETL and ELT testing experience
• Data migration and source to target reconciliation experience
• Experience validating data transformations and business rules
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• QA leadership or mentoring experience
• Agile and Scrum experience

Preferred Experience

• Python and PyTest
• Snowflake Data Quality Monitoring and Data Metric Functions
• Azure DevOps and CI/CD
• Data quality frameworks and monitoring

Talent Groups is an equal opportunity employer. Only qualified candidates will be contacted.