Data Quality Assurance Lead

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Sompo has a unique opportunity for a Data Quality Assurance in our IT team.

The Quality Assurance Lead will be responsible for leading QA activities for enterprise data warehouse data validation, Strategy and Power BI report testing. This role will oversee a QA team, including onshore and offshore team members, and will be accountable for defining, maintaining, and enforcing QA standards, policies, procedures, documentation, and testing best practices.

This role requires strong experience in data warehouse testing, data reconciliation, SQL-based validation, report testing, test planning, defect management, and stakeholder communication.

Location: This position will be based out of our Purchase, NY; Conshohocken, PA; or Charlotte, NC office. We strive for collaboration which is why we offer a work environment where our employees thrive and develop long lasting careers.

Our business, your impact, our opportunity:

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead end-to-end quality assurance activities for enterprise data warehouse, Strategy, and Power BI reporting initiatives. Manage and coordinate the work of the QA resources, including assigning work, reviewing deliverables, tracking progress, and ensuring adherence to QA standards.
• Develop, maintain, and enforce QA policies, procedures, testing standards, templates, documentation practices, and quality gates.
• Define QA strategy, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test data requirements, and traceability matrices for data warehouse and reporting projects.
• Perform and oversee data validation, data reconciliation, source-to-target testing, ETL testing, regression testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing support, and production validation. Validate data movement across source systems, staging areas, enterprise data warehouse layers, semantic/reporting layers, Strategy outputs, and Power BI reports.
• Review source-to-target mappings, business requirements, technical specifications, report requirements, and data models to identify test coverage needs and quality risks. Develop and execute SQL queries to validate data completeness, accuracy, transformation logic, aggregations, calculations, and reconciliation results. Lead testing of Power BI reports, including validation of report visuals, filters, slicers, measures, KPIs, calculations, drill-throughs, row-level security, refresh results, and alignment with business requirements.
• Support testing of Strategy-related data outputs and reporting processes to ensure consistency, accuracy, completeness, and usability. Manage defect identification, documentation, prioritization, triage, tracking, retesting, and closure across QA cycles.
• Partner with developers, ETL teams, data architects, reporting teams, business analysts, and business stakeholders to resolve data quality and reporting issues.
• Provide QA status reporting, test execution metrics, defect metrics, risk assessments, and quality dashboards to project and technology leadership. Identify testing risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and data quality concerns, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Establish and maintain QA documentation, including test plans, test scripts, execution evidence, sign-off documentation, defect logs, test summary reports, and runbooks.
• Drive continuous improvement of QA processes, automation opportunities, documentation standards, and data validation practices.
• Mentor QA team members and provide guidance on data warehouse testing, SQL validation, report testing, defect management, and quality assurance best practices.

 What you’ll bring:

• 7+ years of experience in quality assurance, with significant experience testing enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence, reporting, or analytics solutions.
• 5+ years of experience leading QA teams, preferably teams of approximately 10 or more resources across onshore and offshore delivery models.
• Strong hands-on experience with data warehouse testing, ETL testing, data reconciliation, source-to-target validation, data quality testing, and production validation.
• Advanced SQL skills, including the ability to write complex queries for data validation, reconciliation, aggregation testing, transformation testing, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience testing reports, dashboards, semantic models, datasets, measures, KPIs, filters, slicers, calculations, drill-through functionality, and report refresh results. Experience with PowerBI and Strategy preferred
• Experience validating reports and analytics outputs against business requirements, source data, warehouse data, and defined business logic.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data warehouse concepts, including dimensional modeling, fact and dimension tables, data marts, staging layers, semantic layers, and reporting layers.
• Experience reviewing source-to-target mappings, data models, technical specifications, report specifications, and business requirements to design effective test coverage.
• Experience with defect management and test management tools such as Azure DevOps, Fresh Service, or similar platforms.
• Experience establishing QA standards, policies, test templates, procedures, metrics, and governance practices.
• Familiarity with ETL tools, data integration processes, batch processing, scheduling, and production support concepts.
• Experience with automated testing approaches for data validation, regression testing, or report testing is preferred.
• Experience in insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated data environments is preferred.

Salary Range: $140,000 - $155,000. Actual compensation for this role will depend on several factors including the cost of living associated with your work location, your qualifications, skills, competencies, and relevant experience.

At Sompo, we recognize that the talent, skills, and commitment of our employees drive our success. This is why we offer competitive, high-quality compensation and benefit programs to eligible employees.

Our compensation program is built on a foundation that promotes a pay-for-performance culture, resulting in higher incentive awards, on average, when the Company does well and lower incentive awards when the Company underperforms.  The total compensation opportunity for all regular, full-time employees is a combination of base salary and incentives that gets adjusted upfront based on overall Company performance with final awards based on individual performance.

We continuously evaluate and update our benefit programs to ensure that our plans remain competitive and meet the needs of our employees and their dependents.  Below is a summary of our current comprehensive U.S. benefit programs:

• Two medical plans to choose from, including a Traditional PPO & a Consumer Driven Health Plan with a Health Savings account providing a competitive employer contribution
• Pharmacy benefits with mail order options
• Dental benefits including orthodontia benefits for adults and children
• Vision benefits
• Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Company-paid Life & AD&D benefits, including the option to purchase Supplemental life coverage for employee, spouse & children
• Company-paid Disability benefits with very competitive salary continuation payments
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with competitive employer contributions
• Competitive paid-time-off programs, including company-paid holidays
• Competitive Parental Leave Benefits & Adoption Assistance program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tax-Free Commuter Benefit
• Tuition Reimbursement & Professional Qualification benefits

Who we are and what we stand for:

At Sompo, our shared purpose is to create meaningful value for clients, communities, and each other. We strive to foster a workplace where everyone feels respected, included, and empowered to excel. As a global organization, we embrace diversity and champion equal opportunity. Guided by our core values—Accountability, Agility, Collaboration, Development, and Integrity—we build trust and support one another to achieve our goals worldwide. Life at Sompo page

Our values come to life in how we hire and grow talent. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and organizational need, and we strive to ensure equitable access to opportunities so everyone can do their best work. If you need an accommodation for any part of the application process, please contact the recruiter in charge.