Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Octave provides mission-critical software that turns complex operational data into actionable intelligence for organizations across the asset lifecycle. The company is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and performance of data pipelines, reporting platforms, dashboards, and analytics services supporting its Public Safety software portfolio. The role owns quality within an Agile delivery team through test design, SQL validation, Power BI testing, defect investigation, and data traceability.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the embedded quality expert on an Agile/SAFe team delivering analytics and reporting capabilities
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Engineers, and Developers to shape user stories, acceptance criteria, data mappings, and validation scenarios
- Design and execute tests for ETL pipelines, data transformations, reports, dashboards, semantic models, and analytics services
- Trace data from source systems through pipelines, database objects, reporting models, and final visualizations
- Use SQL to validate accuracy, completeness, transformations, aggregations, nulls, duplicates, and source-to-target reconciliation
- Test Power BI reports and dashboards, including measures, filters, relationships, drill-through behavior, refreshes, and KPI calculations
- Diagnose whether reporting discrepancies originate in source data, ETL logic, SQL, semantic models, or visual configurations
- Validate pipeline failure handling, reruns, partial loads, performance, and recovery scenarios
- Perform functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing throughout each sprint
- Document and triage defects with clear reproduction steps, data samples, reconciliation queries, and impact assessments
- Help establish analytics-testing standards, reusable validation practices, and effective test-data strategies
- Maintain test cases, defects, and traceability in Azure DevOps while actively participating in Agile ceremonies
Skills
- -At least five years of experience in software QA, data QA, or software testing within Agile teams
- -Hands-on experience testing ETL pipelines, analytics platforms, reporting systems, or other data-intensive applications
- -Strong SQL skills, including joins, aggregations, duplicate detection, source-to-target reconciliation, and validation of views and stored procedures
- -Practical experience testing Power BI reports and dashboards—not simply viewing or consuming them
- -The ability to trace a reported value from a visualization back through its measure, model, database objects, transformation logic, and source data
- -Familiarity with Power BI measures, filter context, relationships, refreshes, and gateways
- -A strong understanding of QA methodologies, test design, risk-based testing, and defect management
- -Strong investigative, problem-solving, and communication skills
- -A proactive, accountable approach and the curiosity to keep expanding your technical skills
- -A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related technical field—or equivalent professional experience
- -Fully remote opportunity for the right candidate
- -Participation in an in-person interview and/or completion of mandatory in-person training are required conditions of employment
- -Experience with Public Safety, emergency response, or other mission-critical systems
- -Experience testing SSIS, SSAS, or Azure Data Factory pipelines
- -Knowledge of dimensional modeling, fact and dimension tables, slowly changing dimensions, or medallion architectures
- -Experience with Power BI semantic models, DAX, row-level security, gateways, or deployment troubleshooting
- -Experience building automated tests with Playwright and TypeScript
- -Experience with API testing, CI pipelines, or cloud-based data architectures—particularly Microsoft Azure
Benefits
- Fully remote opportunity for the right candidate.
- Providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.
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