Quality Assurance Lead
Position Location: Pittsburgh, PA, 15222 or Dallas, TX, 75234 ONLY
Hybrid: 2-3 days in office, may move to fully in office upon FTE.
Pay Range: $60-65/hr. on W2 ONLY
Length of Assignment: 12 Months Contract to Hire role
Function of the Group: Mitigating risk
Industry background: Regulation or Data background
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 Required:
1. 5 8 years of experience in data and report testing, preferably within regulatory or risk platforms.
2. Strong expertise in SQL and data validation techniques.
3. Solid understanding of software testing methodologies and lifecycle.
4. Intermediate proficiency in data analysis.
5. Knowledge of data modeling and data warehouse concepts.
6. Proven debugging skills to identify and resolve data or system issues.
7. Experience managing and maintaining testing deliverables and documentation.
8. Extensive experience in data centric testing environments.
Flex Skills/Nice to Have:
1. Exposure to Axiom reporting tool would be a great plus.
2. Experience with Python or R for data profiling, validation, or automation is a strong plus.
Education/Certifications: Bachelors required
Interview Process: First interview with team member panel " Second interview with HM panel.
Hiring Manager Stack Ranking of Importance (Most Important to Least Important): 1. Skills 2. Location 3. Rate 4. Prior Client Experience