Position Title: Quality Assurance Lead
Position Location: Pittsburgh, PA or Dallas, TX ONLY
Ability to work remote: No. Hybrid: 2-3 days in office, may move to fully in office upon FTE.
Acceptable time zone(s): must work EST hours
Days of the week: Monday - Friday
Working Hours: 8:30 am start.
Intended length of Assignment: Through 3/31/2027
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Function of the Group: Mitigating risk
Industry background: Regulation or Data background
Team Dynamic: working within a larger team of data analysts, business analysts, developers, management team.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead quality engineering and testing for data driven regulatory reporting applications.
- Validate data accuracy and completeness across source to target data flows and reports.
- Design and execute test strategies covering functional, regression, and data reconciliation testing.
- Partner with technology and business stakeholders to ensure regulatory requirements are met.
- Oversee test execution, defect analysis, and root cause identification.
- Own testing documentation including scope, strategy, execution results, and delivery artifacts.
Must Have Technical Skills:
- 5–8 years of experience in data and report testing, preferably within regulatory or risk platforms.
- Strong expertise in SQL and data validation techniques.
- Solid understanding of software testing methodologies and lifecycle.
- Intermediate proficiency in data analysis.
- Knowledge of data modeling and data warehouse concepts.
- Proven debugging skills to identify and resolve data or system issues.
- Experience managing and maintaining testing deliverables and documentation.
- Extensive experience in data centric testing environments.
Flex Skills/Nice to Have:
- Exposure to Axiom reporting tool would be a great plus
- Experience with Python or R for data profiling, validation, or automation is a strong plus.
Soft Skills:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to document test scope, strategies, and results clearly and effectively.
- Collaborative team player with the ability to work across technology and business partners.
- Self-driven learner who actively expands both technical and business knowledge.
- Innovative mindset with the ability to apply modern quality engineering and software development practices to improve outcomes.
Interview Process:
- First interview with team member panel
- Second interview with HM panel