# Senior Quality Engineer, Data Platform

**Company:** [FloQast](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/floqast)
**Location:** San Jose, CA
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress, SQL, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Etl/Elt, REST APIs, GitHub Actions, Git, Data Warehousing
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Senior Quality Engineer responsible for automating and validating data pipelines, APIs, backend services, and financial-data workflows. Requires 5+ years of QA automation experience, strong JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL, cloud data warehouse, and ETL/ELT expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks across data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, REST APIs, and backend services.
- Validate data integrity, schema correctness, transformation accuracy, and ERP-to-platform ingestion flows.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and reliability gaps in data-intensive workflows and customer environments.
- Build data-quality validation suites for row counts, referential integrity, financial aggregations, and cross-system reconciliation.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with test reporting and alerting.
- Develop test data strategies, including synthetic financial data generation and environment seeding.
- Support release validation, defect triage, and root-cause analysis of data discrepancies.
- Mentor junior quality engineering team members and promote data-quality-focused testing practices.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of QA automation experience, including 2+ years testing data pipelines, data warehouses, or data-intensive backend services.
- Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and test frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Playwright, and Cypress.
- Hands-on SQL and data-validation experience, including complex queries for transformation logic, aggregations, and financial data accuracy.
- Experience testing Snowflake, Redshift, or similar cloud data warehouses.
- Understanding of ETL/ELT, data ingestion, transformation, schema evolution, and data lineage.
- Experience with REST API testing and backend-service validation.
- Proficiency with GitHub Actions and Git.
- Strong debugging skills for tracing discrepancies from the UI through APIs and pipelines to raw data stores.

## Nice to Have
- Exposure to ERP systems such as NetSuite, Sage Intacct, or SAP.
- Familiarity with financial concepts including general ledger, month-end close, and multi-entity accounting.
- Experience with observability or data-monitoring tools.
- Background in SaaS or cloud-native architectures.

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