QA Engineer – Data Platforms

We’re supporting a major digital transformation programme and are looking for a QA Engineer with experience testing data-centric applications and platforms. This is an opportunity to join an agile delivery team working across modern cloud technologies, ensuring the quality of data pipelines, integrations and user-facing applications. You’ll play a key role in validating complex data flows while working closely with developers, product teams and technical stakeholders.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for delivering high-quality testing across a modern data platform, validating data movement from source through to end-user applications. The role combines traditional functional testing with data validation, integration testing and defect management, helping to ensure reliable, accurate and usable data throughout the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute test scenarios based on user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Validate data pipelines, integrations and API interactions across multiple services.
• Perform functional, regression and risk-based testing across applications and datasets.
• Investigate, log and manage defects, providing clear analysis and reproduction steps.
• Work collaboratively within an agile team, contributing to planning, refinement and delivery activities.
• Produce concise test reporting and support successful sprint completion.

Essential

• Proven commercial experience as a QA Engineer working on data-driven or platform-based solutions.
• Strong understanding of data pipelines, ETL processes and end-to-end data validation.
• Experience testing REST APIs and validating structured data formats such as JSON and CSV.
• Experience working with Azure or another major cloud platform.
• Comfortable using Jira and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Familiarity with version control and CI/CD practices.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to investigate complex data issues.

Desirable

• Experience with Databricks or comparable modern data platforms.
• Knowledge of geospatial datasets and mapping technologies.
• Experience working with formats such as GeoPackage and GeoTIFF.
• Exposure to large-scale cloud data platforms and modern analytics environments.

The Details

• Contract: 6 months
• IR35 Status: Outside IR35
• Rate: £350-375p/d
• Location: Remote

If you’re an experienced QA Engineer with a passion for data quality and modern cloud platforms, we’d love to hear from you.