Fitch

AI Data Quality Assurance Engineer

Fitch$115K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
  • Strong experience in QA or Quality Engineering focused on data platforms
  • Hands-on experience validating data pipelines and large-scale datasets
  • Proficiency in Python for data validation and automation
  • Solid understanding of data engineering concepts and data quality checks
  • Experience integrating data quality tests into CI/CD pipelines
  • Familiarity with regulated data-sensitive environments

Responsibilities

  • Define and own data quality strategies for platforms
  • Establish data quality gates for accuracy, completeness, and reliability
  • Design and execute tests for data pipelines to ensure correctness
  • Validate data transformations across multiple sources
  • Monitor for data drift and performance regressions post-deployment
  • Build automation frameworks for data quality testing
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams as the quality authority

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale data platforms
  • Ownership of data quality strategy and automation
  • Close collaboration with data and software engineering teams
  • Exposure to data validation frameworks and large datasets
  • Mandate to define and govern data quality standards across teams
Full Job Description
Intermediate AI Data Quality Assurance Engineer- New York office.

We are seeking a Data QA Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, robustness, and trustworthiness of data-driven platforms that support analytics and reporting. This includes validating data pipelines, large-scale datasets, and inference outputs, with selective exposure to LLM-based or agentic components where they consume or produce data.

This role goes beyond traditional UI or API testing and focuses on data-aware quality strategies, including schema validation, data completeness, lineage, reconciliation, and performance. You will ensure that core data assets and any dependent analytics or AI components behave as expected across the full data and delivery lifecycle.

What We Offer
  • Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytics, reporting, and downstream ML/AI use cases
  • Ownership of data quality strategy, tooling, and automation across core data pipelines
  • Close collaboration with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Owners, and Analytics teams
  • Exposure to data validation frameworks, large-scale datasets, and selective AI-enabled data consumers
  • A mandate to define, measure, and govern data quality standards across squads and delivery teams


We'll Count on You To

Data Quality Strategy
  • Define and own data quality strategies for data-driven platforms, including pipelines, transformations, and downstream consumption layers
  • Establish data quality gates covering accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and reliability
  • Validate data behavior against business rules, domain expectations, and documented data contracts


Data Pipeline & Consumer Validation
  • Design and execute tests for batch and streaming data pipelines, ensuring end-to-end data correctness
  • Validate data transformations, aggregations, and reconciliations across multiple sources and consumers
  • Ensure analytics, reporting, and ML inference outputs are accurate, consistent, and reproducible
  • Validate data feeding LLM-based or agentic systems, focusing on inputs, outputs, and impact on core datasets


Data Integrity & Lifecycle Validation
  • Validate dataset quality across ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption stages
  • Enforce schema validation, null checks, referential integrity, and lineage tracking
  • Monitor for data drift, anomalies, volume changes, and performance regressions post-deployment


Test Automation for Data Platforms
  • Build and maintain automation frameworks for data quality testing, including rule-based and statistical checks
  • Integrate data quality tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation
  • Leverage automation to scale coverage across large and evolving datasets, while ensuring clear, auditable results
  • Automate UI and service-level validations to ensure data is correctly surfaced, consumed, and represented across dashboards, reports, APIs, and downstream services


Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner closely with Data Engineers, Analytics teams, Software Engineers, and Product Owners throughout the delivery lifecycle
  • Act as the quality authority for data assets within assigned squads
  • Provide clear, actionable feedback on data quality risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities


What You Need to Have
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline
    or equivalent practical experience in Quality Engineering for data-driven platforms
  • Strong experience in QA or Quality Engineering, preferably focused on data platforms, analytics, or reporting systems
  • Hands-on experience validating data pipelines, transformations, and large-scale datasets
  • Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) for data validation, automation, and testing workflows
  • Solid understanding of data engineering concepts, including schema management, data quality checks, reconciliation, and lineage
  • Experience integrating data quality tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation
  • Experience validating downstream data consumers, including analytics, reporting layers, services, or APIs
  • Exposure to ML inference outputs or AI-enabled consumers, with a focus on validating data inputs and outputs rather than model internals
  • Familiarity with working in regulated or data-sensitive environments, including auditability and traceability requirements
  • Experience with test automation frameworks used for data, service, or platform validation
  • Awareness of AI-enabled systems (e.g., LLMs or agentic workflows) where they consume or produce data is a plus, but not required

FOR NEW YORK ROLES ONLY: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $115,000 and $130,000 per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitch's total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long-term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.

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About Fitch

Fitch Ratings Inc. is a credit rating agency and a subsidiary of Fitch Group, which is owned by Hearst Corporation. Fitch Ratings is headquartered in New York City and London. The company was founded by John Knowles Fitch on December 24, 1913 in New York City as the Fitch Publishing Company. It merged with London-based IBCA Limited in December 1997. In 2000 Fitch acquired both Chicago-based Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. (April) and Thomson BankWatch (December). Fitch Ratings is one of the three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSRO) designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975, together with Moody's and Standard & Poor's.
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