QA Tester (Data / Analytics)
Posted Today by Anson McCade
£530 Per day
Inside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The QA Tester (Data / Analytics) role involves supporting a major data and analytics program within a leading global insurance organization. The position focuses on validating data pipelines, reporting outputs, and analytics solutions, ensuring data accuracy and integrity. This hands-on role requires expertise in automated testing frameworks and SQL-based data validation. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in QA testing within data environments, particularly in the insurance sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- Performing end-to-end testing across analytics and reporting platforms used within the insurance business.
- Validating and reconciling data across Medallion architecture layers, ensuring consistency and data integrity.
- Creating and executing test cases for data pipelines, ETL processes, and reporting outputs.
- Querying data warehouses and MI reports using SQL to validate test scenarios.
- Supporting the management and execution of automated testing frameworks.
- Working closely with data engineers, analytics teams, and business stakeholders to ensure outputs meet user requirements.
- Testing solutions built on Microsoft Azure and Azure Data Factory.
- Ensuring reporting and analytics solutions deliver accurate insights for internal stakeholders.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of testing practices within data and analytics environments.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years’ professional experience in QA or software testing, ideally within data or analytics environments.
- ISTQB certification or equivalent testing qualification.
- Strong experience validating data pipelines and data warehouse outputs.
- Hands-on SQL experience for querying and validating test scenarios.
- Exposure to Microsoft SQL Server BI stack, including SQL RDMS, SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.
- Experience working with cloud-based data platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure and Azure Data Factory.
- Familiarity with ETL tools such as Informatica would be beneficial.
- Experience managing or supporting automated testing processes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Salary (Rate): £530 daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
QA Tester (Data / Analytics) Location: Remote (UK) Rate: Up to £530 per day (Inside IR35) Contract: 3 months initially Start Date: 1st April
About the Role
Our client is looking for an experienced QA Tester to support a major data and analytics programme within a leading global insurance organisation. This role sits at the centre of a modern data platform environment and will focus heavily on validating data pipelines, reporting outputs, and analytics solutions used across the business. You will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of data flowing through a Medallion architecture, supporting business-critical reporting and analytics capabilities. This is a hands-on role suited to someone comfortable working across data validation, automated testing frameworks, SQL-based warehouses, and cloud-based data platforms.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Performing end-to-end testing across analytics and reporting platforms used within the insurance business.
- Validating and reconciling data across Medallion architecture layers, ensuring consistency and data integrity.
- Creating and executing test cases for data pipelines, ETL processes, and reporting outputs.
- Querying data warehouses and MI reports using SQL to validate test scenarios.
- Supporting the management and execution of automated testing frameworks.
- Working closely with data engineers, analytics teams, and business stakeholders to ensure outputs meet user requirements.
- Testing solutions built on Microsoft Azure and Azure Data Factory.
- Ensuring reporting and analytics solutions deliver accurate insights for internal stakeholders.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of testing practices within data and analytics environments.
Ideal Background
- 5+ years’ professional experience in QA or software testing, ideally within data or analytics environments.
- ISTQB certification or equivalent testing qualification.
- Strong experience validating data pipelines and data warehouse outputs.
- Hands-on SQL experience for querying and validating test scenarios.
- Exposure to Microsoft SQL Server BI stack, including SQL RDMS, SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.
- Experience working with cloud-based data platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure and Azure Data Factory.
- Familiarity with ETL tools such as Informatica would be beneficial.
- Experience managing or supporting automated testing processes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Domain Experience
This role requires someone with a strong understanding of the insurance domain, including:
- Insurance data structures and reporting requirements
- Business processes and operational workflows
- End-to-end data flows across insurance systems
Candidates from insurance or financial services environments will be particularly relevant.
What You’ll Receive
- Up to £530 per day (Inside IR35)
- Fully remote working
- Opportunity to work with a global insurance leader on a major data programme
- Immediate start on a high-impact analytics initiative
Who Should Apply
This role suits a senior QA tester with strong data testing experience, particularly someone comfortable validating data pipelines, BI reporting, and analytics platforms in a cloud-based environment. If you have worked in insurance or financial services data environments and are confident testing complex data platforms and reporting solutions, this contract will be highly relevant.