Quality Engineer (Data)

About the team

We are recruiting a Quality Engineer (Data) to be responsible for ensuring the quality of OSB Group’s data platform, pipelines, and reporting systems. Working within the Quality Engineering chapter, this role validates data accuracy, completeness, and integrity across all data engineering change and development activity.

This role can be based from our Chatham or Wolverhampton offices.

What you will be doing?

As Quality Engineer you will apply both manual and automated testing techniques to validate complex data flows, ETL pipelines, and analytical outputs. You will work closely with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to embed quality throughout the data development lifecycle, from requirements through to production validation..

 

Key responsibilities will include…

• Ensure the quality, accuracy, and integrity of data across OSB Group’s data platform, pipelines, and reporting systems through effective testing practices.
• Design and execute test cases for ETL pipelines, data transformations, and warehouse changes, using SQL to validate data across source, transit, and target systems.
• Test and validate data pipelines in Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and Databricks, including transformation logic, orchestration, and outputs.
• Identify, log, and manage data defects, providing clear analysis and working closely with engineering teams to support resolution.
• Contribute to test planning, including test strategies, test cases, and execution of integration, regression, and UAT activities.
• Support the development of automated data validation using SQL, Python, or frameworks such as Great Expectations or dbt.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to define testable requirements and embed quality throughout the lifecycle.
• Adhere to data governance and regulatory requirements, ensuring secure handling of data and alignment with compliance standards

What's in it for you?

Base salary of between £50,000-£60,000 dependent on experience:

• Annual discretionary bonus opportunity17.5%
• 30 days annual leave
• Choose to contribute 3% or 5% pension, with employer contributions of 6% or 8% respectively
• Enhanced family-focused benefits
• Hybrid-working 

Please use this link to see the fantastic benefits available at OSB: OSB Careers 

About us

At OSB Group, we understand how much our people bring to our organisation, which is why we try our best to give back too! Our Purpose is to help our customers, colleagues and communities prosper and we are on a transformation journey to become ‘the bank of the future’.

Our commitment to professional development, flexible working, and employee well-being fosters a dynamic and supportive workplace.

Do you have the skills?

We’re looking for someone who enjoys working collaboratively in Agile teams and translating business needs into solutions that deliver real value.

You’ll ideally have:

• Experience working in a data testing, data QA, or quality engineering role with a data focus.
• Understanding and experience of data testing techniques including ETL testing, reconciliation, and data validation
• Proven experience validating data across ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and reporting layers.
• Strong SQL skills for querying and validating complex datasets.
• Experience identifying, logging, and managing data defects using test management tools (Jira, BrowserStack, Azure DevOps).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage workload across multiple tasks and priorities 

Next steps

If this sounds like you, please apply now! For internal applications please visit the internal careers page to apply.

Still on the fence? Hear from our team or explore our process:

OSB Careers

Shortlisted candidates will go through a personalised recruitment process, that is relevant and conversational. If you need any adjustments or support, we’re here to make sure you can show your best self.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone can thrive.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and encourage candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions to apply.

If you meet the minimum criteria for the role and would like to be considered under our Disability Confident Scheme, please indicate this on your application.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Our team value spending time together in the office, typically 3 days a week to support collaboration and connection with colleagues, but we’re happy to have a conversation about what flexibility might look like for you.

Not sure if you meet the spec? Let us decide. Research tells us that those from marginalised groups feel like they need to meet 100% of the criteria to apply. Here at OSB, we are committed to inclusivity and understand the value different experiences and perspectives can bring, so please don’t feel like you need to check every box to apply for a role internally.

We champion diversity at all levels, with Board-level Diversity Champions tracking our progress. We are proud to be signed up to the Women in Finance Charter to actively support the growth and development of senior women in our sector and are dedicated to treating all our employees and job applicants equally, opposed to discrimination on any grounds.