SQL QA Lead — Remote Data Quality & Training Mentor

Joinkeywork; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a SQL Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across SQL training projects, review AI-generated SQL, and provide precise feedback to trainers and QAs.

Responsibilities include updating guidelines, onboarding, documenting processes, and flagging insecure or dialect-incompatible SQL. AI interview and domain tasks are part of the process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Statistics, Business Analytics, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear technical feedback.
• 3+ years of experience using SQL for analytics, backend development, database engineering, BI, data warehousing, reporting, QA, teaching, or technical review.
• Strong understanding of SQL fundamentals such as SELECT, WHERE, JOINs, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY, subqueries, CTEs, window functions, indexes, constraints, transactions, and normalization.

Responsibilities

• Spot-check SQL/database items, identify issues, provide feedback through DMs, and escape recurring or critical issues.
• Review AI-generated SQL queries, database explanations, schema reasoning, analytics workflows, and optimization recommendations.
• Update trainers/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 analytics

English communication

Rubric-based review

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/DS/IS/SE/Statistics/BA

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

GitHub

BI tools

Job description

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks a SQL Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across SQL training projects, review AI-generated SQL, and provide precise feedback to trainers and QAs.

Responsibilities include updating guidelines, onboarding, documenting processes, and flagging insecure or dialect-incompatible SQL. AI interview and domain tasks are part of the process.