Senior Data QA Engineer – Analytics & ETL (Remote)

Octave; Madison (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Octave is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and performance across analytics and reporting components in the HxGN OnCall suite. You will work within an Agile delivery team to validate ETL pipelines, dashboards, and semantic models, collaborating with data engineers, developers, and product owners to establish robust validation and testing practices.

The role emphasizes testing of Power BI reports, data pipelines, and analytics services with

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in software QA, data QA, or software testing within Agile teams.
• Hands-on experience testing ETL pipelines, analytics platforms, reporting systems, or other data-intensive applications.
• Strong SQL skills, including joins, aggregations, duplicate detection, source-to-target reconciliation, and validation of views and stored procedures.
• Practical experience testing Power BI reports and dashboards—not simply viewing or consuming them.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the embedded quality expert on an Agile/SAFe team delivering analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Engineers, and Developers to shape user stories, acceptance criteria, data mappings, and validation scenarios.
• Design and execute tests for ETL pipelines, data transformations, reports, dashboards, semantic models, and analytics services.
• Trace data from source systems through pipelines, database objects, reporting models, and final visualizations.
• Use SQL to validate accuracy, completeness, transformations, aggregations, nulls, duplicates, and source-to-target reconciliation.
• Test Power BI reports and dashboards, including measures, filters, relationships, drill-through behavior, refreshes, and KPI calculations.

Skills

QA experience

SQL

Power BI

ETL testing

Data analytics

Agile

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Tools

SSIS

SSAS

Azure Data Factory

Playwright

Job description

Octave is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and performance across analytics and reporting components in the HxGN OnCall suite. You will work within an Agile delivery team to validate ETL pipelines, dashboards, and semantic models, collaborating with data engineers, developers, and product owners to establish robust validation and testing practices.

The role emphasizes testing of Power BI reports, data pipelines, and analytics services with