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Charles Schwab Inc.
Data QA Engineer
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What they do
A Software QA Engineer or Tester designs and runs in-depth diagnostic tests to evaluate software and check for problems before new products are marketed. Pilots software and applies tests to check for errors and glitches.
$105,382 / year median in Texas
+9% projected growth
Job Description
Your Opportunity At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). The Data QA Engineer will play a critical role in Schwab's Data Exchange space by helping ensure data applications are tested with accuracy, consistency, and release readiness. In this role, you'll partner across product, development, and quality teams to shape test strategies, assess requirements, estimate testing efforts, and guide functional, regression, end-to-end, and automated testing across complex data exchange platforms. Your work will help improve quality outcomes, reduce delivery risk, and create scalable testing practices that support critical data applications and enterprise priorities. This role requires strong problem-solving, decision-making, and collaboration skills, especially when identifying defects, diagnosing root causes, managing release risks, and communicating testing progress to stakeholders. You'll also help strengthen team effectiveness by supporting junior quality engineers, maintaining reusable test scenario libraries, and applying automation-focused thinking to improve how testing is planned, executed, and optimized over time. What you have Required qualifications 10+ years of overall technology experience, including 8+ years as a Quality Engineer working on data warehouse and ETL projects Experience writing and understanding SQL queries and scripts to validate data flows, support test execution, and perform data analysis Experience with Python scripting Experience testing data warehouse and ETL applications using Informatica