Senior ETL QA Automation Engineer — Onsite 3x/wk (Charlotte)

Sharp Decisions; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp Decisions is seeking a senior ETL QA Automation Engineer to join the Cyber Data Operations team within ISDAD. The role involves designing and executing test cases for CyberDW and Cyber Data Dashboards, identifying defects, and contributing to regression test plans.

You will participate in Agile Scrum, maintain test documentation, validate data pipelines, and mentor junior testers while ensuring reliable systems through thorough testing across functional, integration, and performance scopes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of QA/ETL testing experience in data environments.
• 5+ years leading QA for data warehouses, lakes, or lakehouse platforms.
• Strong Databricks experience and data pipeline testing.
• Advanced SQL and Spark SQL for data validation and analysis.
• Python, PySpark and Pandas for test automation and validation.
• REST APIs testing with Postman or similar tooling.
• Experience validating ETL/ELT pipelines and data transformations.
• Experience in multiple testing types: functional, integration, regression, UAT.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans, cases, and scripts based on requirements.
• Perform manual and automated testing across functional, regression, integration, and UAT.
• Document defects and collaborate with developers to resolve issues.
• Maintain test documentation and ensure traceability of requirements.
• Participate in Agile Scrum calls and provide usability and stability feedback.
• Identify and manage documentation and deliverables for each project testing.

Skills

ETL Testing

QA Automation

SQL

Spark SQL

Python

PySpark

Pandas

Databricks

REST APIs

Postman

Data Validation

Data Pipelines

Root Cause Analysis

Tools

Databricks

Postman

Job description

Sharp Decisions is seeking a senior ETL QA Automation Engineer to join the Cyber Data Operations team within ISDAD. The role involves designing and executing test cases for CyberDW and Cyber Data Dashboards, identifying defects, and contributing to regression test plans.

You will participate in Agile Scrum, maintain test documentation, validate data pipelines, and mentor junior testers while ensuring reliable systems through thorough testing across functional, integration, and performance scopes.