Remote SQL QA Lead - Quality, Training & Guidance

YO IT Consulting; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting is seeking a SQL Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly, remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across SQL and database AI training projects, review AI-generated SQL queries, and provide precise feedback to trainers and QAs.

You will evaluate query correctness, readability, and adherence to rubrics, help onboard new contributors, maintain documentation, and communicate updates to the team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years using SQL for analytics and QA.
• Ability to evaluate SQL against rubrics.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams.
• Familiarity with major DB systems.

Responsibilities

• Spot-check SQL/database items and provide feedback through DMs, escalating recurring or critical issues.
• Review AI-generated SQL queries, database explanations, schema reasoning, analytics workflows, and optimization recommendations.
• Update trainers or QAs on Discord about guidelines, workflow updates, and SQL-specific quality expectations.
• Respond to questions around joins, aggregations, window functions, query dialects, schema design, performance, security, and rubric interpretation.
• DM inactive contributors, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues.
• Create and maintain SQL documentation, style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Run onboarding/training calls for SQL contributors.
• Flag misleading, non-executable, inefficient, insecure, or dialect-incompatible SQL recommendations.
• Identify recurring quality gaps and improve SQL QA workflows.

Skills

SQL

Quality Assurance

Data Analytics

Leadership

Remote Collaboration

Documentation

Education

CS or Data Science degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

BigQuery

BI Tools

Job description

YO IT Consulting is seeking a SQL Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly, remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across SQL and database AI training projects, review AI-generated SQL queries, and provide precise feedback to trainers and QAs.

You will evaluate query correctness, readability, and adherence to rubrics, help onboard new contributors, maintain documentation, and communicate updates to the team.