Data Quality Assurance/Test Engineer

Job Type: Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Closing Date: 04/04/2026

Location: Leeds or London

Salary: National: £51,907- £57,100 London: £56,060- £61,700

Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better.

As a Data Quality Assurance Analyst, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, reliability and integrity of the data that underpins our business. Working at the heart of the Data Migration project, you’ll help shape how information flows across our organisation - supporting better decision‑making, smoother processes and a stronger data foundation for the future.

You’ll work closely with colleagues across data, business analysis, engineering and project delivery, validating datasets, improving data standards and ensuring that what we deliver is accurate, complete and trusted. Whether you’re testing migrated data, analysing patterns, resolving issues or supporting downstream reporting, your work will directly enhance our data quality and overall employee and customer experience.

• 
  
• Conduct detailed validation of client, advice and product datasets, including structured records and unstructured content (e.g., documents, notes, attachments).
  
• Execute test cases for each stage of the migration lifecycle: extraction, staging, transformation, loading and post‑load validation.
  
• Perform reconciliation between source data and target data, ensuring completeness, accuracy and referential integrity.
  
• Validate iterative mock migration cycles and identify patterns, data gaps, mapping discrepancies and transformation issues.
  
• Support the triage, documentation and resolution of data defects in collaboration with data migration and engineering teams.
  
• Maintain detailed test evidence, defect logs, and validation reports.
  

• 
  
• Validate data ingestion into downstream platforms including the data lakehouse, data warehouse and reporting systems.
  
• Ensure schema adherence, metadata accuracy, lineage integrity and transformation rule correctness in downstream datasets.
  
• Test dashboards, MI reports and regulatory outputs to ensure that reported values reflect migrated data accurately.
  
• Support regression testing where changes are made to pipelines, mappings or transformation rules.
  

• 
  
• Perform exploratory data profiling to identify abnormalities, missing values, duplicate records and data format issues.
  
• Support the execution of data cleansing, enrichment and transformation checks.
  
• Validate business rules, logic and mappings defined by the Data Migration Analysts and business SMEs.
  
• Monitor data quality throughout migration cycles and contribute to improving data standards and quality controls.
  

• 
  
• Assist in validating data quality during cutover rehearsals, data freeze periods and post‑go‑live verification.
  
• Contribute to defining and applying entry and exit criteria for migration testing cycles.
  
• Support hypercare activities by validating live data defects, reconciling issues and confirming fixes.
  

• 
  
• Relevant experience in data testing, QA, data validation or similar roles.
  
• Strong SQL skills and experience analysing data across databases, data lakes or data warehouses.
  
• Experience validating both structured and unstructured datasets.
  
• Understanding of data migration, ETL/ELT processes, data mapping and data lineage.
  
• Experience working with 3rd party vendors is advantageous.
  
• Experience working in financial services or financial advice environments is desirable.
  
• Knowledge of data quality principles, GDPR, and data governance practices.
  
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
  
• Experience with test and documentation management tools such as Jira, Xray and Confluence.
  
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to translate technical findings for business audiences.
  

We understand not everyone will meet 100% of the requirements, however we encourage you to apply if you think your skills are a good fit for this role.

This job vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.

• 
  
• Generous Holiday Entitlement: 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell 5 days.
  
• Health & Wellbeing: Company-paid Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, and Health Screening.
  
• Company Pension Contribution: A matched pension contribution of up to 15% of your base pay.
  
• Cash Allowance: Flexible allowance to spend on additional benefits personal to you, including: dental cover, paid sabbatical leave, gym membership, menopause support.
  
• Bonus Opportunity: Dependent on individual/company performance (eligible after 3 months’ service)
  
• Financial Advice: Access to free financial advice to help secure your financial future.
  

To find out more, please visit https://www.spw.com/careers-at-spw/rewards-and-benefits

At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job‑sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way.

We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.

At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.

Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo-regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform this role.