QA Engineer
Motorola Solutions21 hours ago
Remote, South AfricaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Validate the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and schema compliance of data moving through ingestion and processing pipelines.
- Write SQL queries to reconcile source systems with data warehouses or data lakes.
- Verify business logic, aggregations, KPIs, predictive metrics, charts, graphs, and dashboards.
- Conduct regression testing for analytics algorithms, reporting features, and data drift.
- Design, build, and maintain automated API and UI dashboard testing frameworks.
- Implement automated data-quality checks in CI/CD pipelines and mock large datasets for edge-case and high-volume testing.
- Evaluate concurrent-user loads, large-scale data-processing spikes, query performance, and reporting latency.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Engineers, and Report Developers, and participate in sprint planning, refinement, and retrospectives.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience as a QA Engineer, ideally in a data-intensive, BI, or analytics product environment.
- Strong SQL skills, including joins, window functions, and subqueries, for data verification and reconciliation.
- Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright and API testing tools such as Postman or RestAssured.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language, preferably Python or JavaScript, for data manipulation and test automation is advantageous.
- Familiarity with data warehousing concepts, Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift, and ETL pipelines.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum development cycles and CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
- Strong analytical, communication, and attention-to-detail skills, including the ability to translate business logic into edge-case test scenarios.
Benefits
- 20 days of PTO.
- Life, dread disease, and salary protection cover provided in full by the company.
- Fully remote within South Africa.
- Laptop and necessary work-from-home accessories provided.
- No travel or relocation is required.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftCypressDatabricksGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle BigQueryJavaScriptJenkinsPostmanPythonSeleniumSnowflakeSQL
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About Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions builds mission‑critical communications, video security and access control, body‑worn cameras, and command‑center software for public safety agencies and enterprises. It sells radios and LMR/P25 systems, cloud software, and managed services used by police, fire, and critical infrastructure operators. Headquartered in Chicago and publicly traded on the NYSE (MSI), the company was formed in 2011 after Motorola’s split and operates globally.