Data & Digital Quality Assurance Consultant

About the role

The Data & Digital Quality Assurance Consultant provides independent assurance for client data products, analytics solutions, integrations and digital platforms. You will work closely with business analysts, engineers, developers and client users to plan and execute risk‑based testing, ensuring that delivered functions meet requirements and that data quality, performance and security are adequately demonstrated.

Key responsibilities

• Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and designs for completeness, clarity and testability.
• Develop risk‑based test strategies, plans, scenarios, test data, environments and evidence requirements.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, results, defects and acceptance decisions.
• Test data pipelines, transformations, APIs, integrations, reports, dashboards and platform functions.
• Validate calculations, reconciliations, data‑quality rules, reference data, metadata and error handling.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, usability, performance and selected security‑control tests.
• Record defects with reproducible steps, evidence, impact and severity; coordinate triage, retesting and closure.
• Support user acceptance testing through scripts, training, evidence capture and issue management.
• Identify opportunities for repeatable or automated testing and prepare quality dashboards, readiness assessments and residual‑risk summaries.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, software engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3–7 years of experience in software, data or platform testing.
• Proven experience testing data transformations, integrations, reports or analytical outputs.
• Experience managing defects, traceability, test evidence and user acceptance processes.
• Exposure to automated testing, non‑functional testing or regulated delivery environments is preferred.

Required skills

• API testing
• Data pipeline testing
• Integration testing
• Performance testing
• Security‑control testing
• Test strategy and planning
• Defect management and traceability