Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Job Title: QA Data Engineer
Location: Any Orion Innovation office in India(Pune/Mumbai/Kochi/Coimbatore/Chennai/Hyderabad)
Work type: Hybrid
Role Description / Responsibilities
A technically skilled QA professional specialising in validating data platforms, ETL pipelines, analytical models, and large‑scale data transformations. The QA Engineer works closely with developers, data engineers, product teams, and business SMEs to ensure the quality, reliability, and accuracy of data assets across the delivery lifecycle. of our digital data audit products.
Core Responsibilities
Data Testing & Quality Assurance
- Design, develop, and execute test plans for data & analytics products, including ingestion pipelines, transformations, data models, and dashboards.
- Apply robust testing techniques for data completeness, consistency, accuracy, timeliness, and lineage.
Technical & Platform Responsibilities
- Write and execute SQL/PL‑SQL queries for data verification, profiling, and root‑cause analysis.
- Use Databricks to inspect data, validate notebook logic, execute test scripts, and investigate transformation failures.
- Work with Delta Lake, Spark DataFrames, and related components to test scalable data processing.
ETL/ELT and Pipeline Testing
- Validate end‑to‑end ETL/ELT workflows.
- Ensure correctness of data transformations and seamless movement between data layers.
- Conduct regression testing following schema evolution, code updates, or pipeline refactoring.
Collaboration & Delivery Practices
- Work closely with Data Engineers, Developers‑in‑Test, Business SMEs, and Product Owners to ensure high‑quality delivery.
- Provide clarity on data issues, identify root causes, and support resolution.
- Participate in refinement sessions to assess testability of new features and data logic.
- Contribute to automation frameworks, promoting continuous integration of data tests.
Automation & Scripting (Desirable)
- Develop automated test scripts using Python, PySpark, or Pandas.
- Contribute to automated test frameworks that validate transformations and data quality at scale.
Skills & Experience
Mandatory
- Proven experience testing data and analytics platforms.
- Advanced SQL and PL/SQL skills.
- Hands‑on experience with Databricks (notebooks, Delta Lake, Spark).
- Strong understanding of ETL concepts and data transformation methodologies.
- Experience validating large datasets, data pipelines, and data models.
Desirable
- Python for test automation and data manipulation.
- PySpark for distributed data testing.
- Pandas for lightweight automation and exploratory validation.
- Exposure to CI/CD, data observability tools, or version control (Git).
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Skills Required
- Proven experience testing data and analytics platforms.
- Advanced SQL and PL/SQL skills.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks (notebooks).
- Experience with Delta Lake and Spark (Spark DataFrames).
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and data transformation methodologies.
- Experience validating large datasets, data pipelines, and data models.
- Python for test automation and data manipulation.
- PySpark for distributed data testing.
- Pandas for lightweight automation and exploratory validation.
- Exposure to CI/CD processes.
- Experience with data observability tools.
- Version control (Git).
Orion Innovation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Orion Innovation and has not been reviewed or approved by Orion Innovation.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Orion highlights health and well-being initiatives such as fitness, mindfulness, and flexibility/remote options, reinforced by recognition like Cigna’s Healthy Workforce Designation. Flexibility via hybrid/remote work is positioned as a consistent part of the overall rewards experience.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as moderately satisfactory overall, with pockets where compensation is viewed as fair, particularly for some software engineering and certain U.S. roles. Public snapshots also indicate that competitiveness can be stronger in specific markets and functions.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
