Quality Assurance and Data Tester

Role overview Support quality assurance for data pipelines and integrations on a cloud data platform used by multiple federal programs. The role focuses on verifying migrated data, analytics outputs, and AI agent use cases, with careful documentation for a regulated environment.

Responsibilities - Validate data onboarding, transformations, and end-to-end flows between connected systems. - Check data migrated from legacy on-premises systems for accuracy, integrity, and reliability. - Write and execute functional, integration, regression, and SQL-based backend tests. - Assess whether analytics and AI agent outputs meet documented business and technical expectations. - Record defects with reproduction steps, maintain traceable test evidence, and coordinate fixes with engineering and business teams. - Participate in Agile planning and testing cycles, and support audit documentation.

Requirements - Hands-on experience designing and executing software or data quality tests, including functional, integration, regression, and backend testing. - Strong SQL skills, including queries with joins and aggregations. - Experience testing data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, or migrations from legacy systems to cloud platforms. - Familiarity with Databricks, AWS, Delta tables, or data lakehouse concepts. - Ability to maintain test plans, cases, and traceability records and to communicate defects clearly. - Analytical attention to data accuracy and edge cases; experience working with Agile/Scrum teams.

Nice to have - Experience evaluating AI/ML outputs or agent-based applications. - Knowledge of Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers, test automation, or test management tools. - Exposure to FISMA High, FedRAMP, or other regulated, multi-tenant environments.

Benefits and work setup The listing describes a collaborative, matrixed federal project environment. Benefits for eligible full-time employees include medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, voluntary plans, health and flexible spending accounts, a 401(k), and paid leave. It also mentions professional development, work-life balance, and recognition programs.