Data QA Lead
- Lead end-to-end data testing and validation for a major banking transformation program.
- Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies and plans for data migration and ETL processes.
- Coordinate testing across multiple systems and ensure effective defect governance.
Project description
A leading bank in Australia is undertaking a major transformation program involving complex data migration, ETL, Enterprise Data Warehouse (DWH), and reporting solutions. We are looking for an experienced Data/ETL QA Lead with strong banking experience to lead end-to-end data testing, reconciliation, migration validation, ETL/DWH testing, and reporting validation across the program.
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end Data, ETL, DWH, migration, reconciliation, and reporting testing across complex transformation programs.
Develop and execute comprehensive Test Strategies, Test Plans, Quality Gates, Dashboards, and Governance Reporting.
Lead data migration testing, including source-to-target validation, data reconciliation, transformation validation, completeness and accuracy checks.
Lead validation of ETL pipelines, data transformations, business rules, data interfaces, DWH layers, and downstream reporting.
Coordinate testing across source systems, integration platforms, data warehouses, reporting solutions, and upstream/downstream applications.
Manage System Testing (ST), SIT, UAT, Regression Testing, Production Verification, and associated test governance.
Define and manage complex data reconciliation and migration validation activities across multiple systems and data sources.
Identify, track, and mitigate testing risks, issues, dependencies, data quality concerns, and defects across multiple workstreams.
Ensure effective defect governance through defect triage, prioritisation, reporting, root-cause coordination, and resolution management.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, technology teams, data teams, vendors, and program leadership to ensure testing and quality objectives are achieved.
Provide regular status updates, quality assessments, test metrics, dashboards, and quality gate recommendations to program stakeholders.
Lead and coordinate cross-functional testing teams across multiple delivery streams and releases.
Skills
Must have
10+ years of experience in Test Management/Test Lead roles, including leadership of complex data and transformation testing programs.
Proven experience delivering large-scale banking or financial services transformation and migration programs.
Strong hands-on and leadership experience in Data, ETL, DWH, Data Migration, Reconciliation, and Reporting Testing.
Strong experience validating complex ETL processes, data transformations, source-to-target mappings, business rules, and data interfaces.
Proven experience with large-scale data migration testing, including reconciliation, completeness, accuracy, integrity, and transformation validation.
Strong experience validating Enterprise Data Warehouse (DWH) solutions and downstream reporting outputs.
Ability to define and execute complex reconciliation approaches across source, staging, transformation, target, and reporting layers.
Demonstrated ability to develop and execute Test Strategies, Test Plans, Quality Gate Assessments, Dashboards, and Governance Reporting.
Extensive experience in Defect Management, Risk Management, Issue Management, and Dependency Management across complex programs.
Proven experience managing ST, SIT, UAT, Regression Testing, Production Verification, and defect governance.
Strong stakeholder engagement and vendor management capability, including working with business, data, engineering, delivery, and third-party teams.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with the ability to investigate complex data quality, reconciliation, integration, and migration issues.
Excellent communication, leadership, and program coordination skills with experience leading cross-functional testing teams.
Ability to manage testing across multiple delivery streams, ensuring alignment of dependencies, risks, quality gates, and program milestones.
Banking or Financial Services domain experience is mandatory.
Nice to have
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Other
Languages
English: C1 Advanced
Seniority
Regular
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