QA Specialist - (Power BI & Microsoft Fabric)

Title: QA Specialist (Power BI & Microsoft Fabric)

Location: Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open (Best Possible)

Requirements:
Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist with strong expertise in Power BI testing and Microsoft Fabric migrations. This role will play a critical part in ensuring data integrity, reliability, and performance across our reporting and analytics environment. The ideal candidate will combine front-end user testing skills (Power BI Service navigation, validating report usability) with back-end data validation (SQL queries, pipeline testing, data model checks).

Mandatory skills:

Microsoft Fabric expertise with notebook development

More specifically, the core skills would be:

• Microsoft Fabric (Data Engineering / Data Analytics environment)
• Notebook development in Fabric (typically using PySpark / Spark SQL)
• Data migration experience to Microsoft Fabric
• Testing and validation within Fabric notebooks
• Understanding of QA automation in data platforms

Key Responsibilities

• QA Strategy & Execution
• Develop and implement QA strategies for data workflows, pipelines, and models within Microsoft Fabric.
• Establish repeatable testing processes to validate data quality, consistency, and accuracy across Power BI reports and semantic models.

• Testing & Validation
• Test Power BI Service functionality, including navigation, permissions, and user interactions.
• Validate front-end report outputs and ensure consistency with underlying data sources.
• Query SQL backend sources to confirm data accuracy, transformations, and performance.
• Compare legacy vs. Fabric environments to ensure identical functionality and results.

• Automation & Documentation
• Design and manage automated testing processes for pipelines, models, and integrations.
• Document test cases, scenarios, and outcomes in a clear, reproducible manner.
• Track and report quality metrics, ensuring SLAs for data availability and accuracy are met.

• Collaboration & Issue Resolution
• Work closely with Business Analysts, Power BI Developers, Data Engineers, Modelers, and Governance Specialists to uphold data quality standards.
• Conduct root cause analysis for data-related issues and coordinate resolution efforts.
• Recommend improvements in testing frameworks, methodologies, and tools.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in Power BI Service testing, including navigation, permissions, and report validation.
• Ability to query SQL databases for back-end validation and issue troubleshooting.
• Comfort with Excel (pivot tables, lookups, comparisons) for validation and analysis.
• Strong understanding of data quality principles (completeness, accuracy, consistency).
• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric and Azure environments.
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks for data pipelines and integrations.
• Experience in defining, tracking, and reporting QA and data quality metrics.
• Strong documentation skills to create clear and repeatable test cases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience testing data migrations to Microsoft Fabric.
• Familiarity with Azure security protocols and governance frameworks.
• Prior experience in root cause analysis for complex data/reporting issues.
• Exposure to continuous integration/continuous testing (CI/CT) practices.

Benefits:
If Interested please send your updated resume to:[email protected] include your rate/Salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.

We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest.