Senior Data QA Engineer: ETL/Databricks Testing Lead

axos; United States; On-site; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Paid time off

HSA or FSA

401(k) + match

529 Savings Plan

Mortgage loan program

Bank account access

Job summary

Axos is seeking an experienced data tester to join the delivery team or shared pool. You will own test design and execution for complex data items and mentor junior engineers.

You will validate data across SSIS, dbt, Fivetran, Python ingestion, and Databricks pipelines, participate in Agile ceremonies, and drive defects to closure with developers. A Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA testing, with 3+ years in a data engineering or data warehousing environment.
• Strong SQL for data validation, reconciliation and profiling; working Python for test scripting.
• Hands-on experience testing ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse loads.
• Experience with test design techniques, risk-based coverage and estimation.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or equivalent for defect and test management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work independently under minimal supervision and meet delivery commitments.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Perform quality assurance and quality control duties for the Enterprise Data Management and data development life cycle.
• Engage from backlog refinement: review requirements and technical specifications, define acceptance criteria and design tests before development starts.
• Define, prepare, execute and implement data validation, unit, integration, regression and source to target testing across SSIS, dbt, Fivetran, Python ingestion and Databricks pipelines.
• Own testing for complex or high risk work items, including performance and security related checks against the practice quality gates.
• Support periodic quantitative and qualitative data audits on post-production data sets.
• Document defects in Azure DevOps with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence; drive them to closure with developers.
• Contribute automated checks to the practice regression suite and help convert manual tests to automation.
• Mentor Intermediate and Junior engineers; review their test designs, queries and defect reports.
• Work with business analysts, developers, data architects and Tableau developers to understand scope and build comprehensive test plans.
• Leverage AI/LLM-powered tools to accelerate test case generation and validate AI-assisted output before production tests.

Skills

SQL

Python

QA testing

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/IS/CE

Tools

Azure DevOps

Databricks

SSIS

dbt

Fivetran

Job description

Axos is seeking an experienced data tester to join the delivery team or shared pool. You will own test design and execution for complex data items and mentor junior engineers.

You will validate data across SSIS, dbt, Fivetran, Python ingestion, and Databricks pipelines, participate in Agile ceremonies, and drive defects to closure with developers. A Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.