Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - Data & Analytics

Job Location (Short): Houston, Texas-USA | Madison, Alabama-USA Workplace Type: Remote Req Id: 2762 Responsibilities --------------------

Is testing data your jam?

Do mismatched totals bother you until you find the exact transformation, relationship, or filter that caused them? Do you enjoy tracing data from a source table through an ETL pipeline, stored procedure, semantic model, and Power BI dashboard? Can you spot the difference between bad source data, faulty SQL, and a broken report?

If so, this may be your kind of role.

Octave is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer who knows that a polished dashboard is only as trustworthy as the data behind it. You’ll help ensure the accuracy, reliability, and performance of analytics used across our global Public Safety software portfolio, including the HxGN OnCall application suite.

Embedded within an Agile delivery team, you’ll own quality across data pipelines, reporting platforms, dashboards, and analytics services. You’ll work alongside Developers, Data Engineers, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to uncover risks early and ensure operational data can be trusted when it matters most.

Experience in Public Safety, emergency response, or another mission-critical environment is especially valuable.

What you’ll do

• 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.
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