QA Test Automation Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead quality assurance efforts for multiple concurrent projects focused on data ingestion and integration, ensuring alignment with banking regulatory standards.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to support scalable and secure data operations.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies covering System Integration Testing (SIT) and closely partner with the team for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Collaborate with data engineers, developers, project managers, and compliance teams to ensure data quality, integrity, and traceability throughout the ingestion lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement in QA processes
• Create daily/weekly test execution metrics and status reporting.
• Assist the Project Managers/Scrum Masters to drive project team to defect resolution.
• Leverage existing tools/techniques to streamline and automate wherever possible.
• Actively participate in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance.
• Actively participate in the review of project requirements, data mappings and technical design specifications.
• Analyze data, troubleshoot data issues, and create action plans to address data quality issues. Collaborate with project team on defect analysis and triage.
• Participate in production implementation verification and being accountable for validating system quality

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of ETL testing experience in data warehouse environment
• 3+ years of test automation experience
• 2+ years of experience with Snowflake and AWS
• 2+ years of experience leading QA Analysts on a project team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services (banking) industry
• Strong experience with SQL, ETL testing, and data warehouse concepts (e.g., star/snowflake schema, OLAP)
• Proficiency in test automation tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, PyTest, or DBT tests
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, AWS)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps)
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Able to effectively prioritize and execute tasks
• Detail oriented and highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills