Quality Assurance Lead

Quality Assurance Lead

CGI is looking for a Quality Assurance Lead. This position is located at our client site five days a week in either Pittsburgh, PA, Dallas, TX, Cleveland, OH, or Birmingham, AL. We are seeking an experienced Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to lead quality engineering efforts for enterprise scale data platforms and distributed applications. This role is responsible for defining QA strategy, leading test automation initiatives, and ensuring the integrity, reliability, and performance of complex data ecosystems.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in big data testing, automation frameworks, database validation, and Dev Ops practices with a passion for building scalable quality engineering solutions. This individual will partner closely with cross functional teams to deliver high quality data and application solutions in a highly regulated enterprise environment.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Lead the overall quality assurance strategy, test planning, execution, and reporting across large scale data and application initiatives.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks using Python and PySpark for enterprise data validation.
• Validate large scale data pipelines across Hadoop based technologies, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reliability.
• Develop comprehensive end to end test scenarios covering data ingestion, transformation, batch processing, and downstream integrations.
• Perform database validation, reconciliation, and data quality testing using Oracle PL/SQL and SQL.
• Validate machine learning data pipelines and model workflows, including experiment tracking and data integrity validation.
• Monitor and validate enterprise workflow scheduling processes utilizing enterprise job schedulers.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and modern Dev Ops practices.
• Develop Unix/Linux scripts to support automation, batch validation, and operational testing.
• Lead defect management activities including root cause analysis, prioritization, and resolution tracking.
• Ensure testing activities align with enterprise governance, audit, compliance, and data security standards.
• Mentor QA engineers and champion automation, continuous improvement, and quality engineering best practices.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of Quality Assurance or Test Engineering experience, including experience leading QA initiatives.
• Strong programming experience with Python and PySpark.
• Hands on experience testing enterprise Big Data platforms including Hadoop, Hive, Impala, and Sqoop.
• Strong experience validating relational databases using Oracle PL/SQL and SQL.
• Experience working with enterprise workload schedulers such as Control M or similar scheduling platforms.
• Strong Unix/Linux scripting skills.
• Experience implementing QA automation within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git.
• Understanding of Dev Ops methodologies and automated software delivery pipelines.
• Experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Open Shift.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills, particularly involving complex data environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with technical and business stakeholders.

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because… You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.