Key Responsibilities • Test Automation Architecture & Strategy Data pipelines (batch and streaming) APIs and backend services • Data Testing Framework Engineering SQL based assertions and reconciliation Schema validation and evolution checks • Break Systems Proactively (Destructive Testing Mindset) Schema drift and backward incompatibility Late arriving data and partial failures • ETL and Streaming Validation at Scale Row, aggregate, and hash based reconciliation Incremental and backfill validation • Data Quality & Observability Integration Outstanding Expectations, Soda Accuracy, completeness, uniqueness, timeliness • CI/CD & DataOps Enforcement Pre merge gates and release blockers Selective and parallel test execution • Test Data Management Synthetic data generation Masking and anonymization • Performance & Reliability Testing Pipeline and query performance benchmarks Concurrency and stress testing • Security & Compliance Validation PII or PHI exposure Encryption and access control • Cross Functional Quality Leadership Work with data engineers, platform teams,



and architects to embed quality early Challenge poor design decisions that impact reliability • Incident Analysis & Prevention Analyze production data issues and failure patterns Reduce flaky tests and false alarms Mandatory Skills • Programming & Framework Development • Data Engineering Ecosystem • Data Quality & Observability • Streaming Systems • CI/CD & DevOps • Cloud & Infrastructure Desired Skills Experience with API contract testing and tools like PACT Basic UI automation for end to end validation Exposure to data mesh or data product architectures Experience 9+ years in automation or quality engineering 5+ years building frameworks for data platforms at scale

Key Job Details

Primary Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job Type

Experienced

Required Experience

7

Skill

Data-SQL Server with Data Modeling,Performance Tuning,ETL.

Travel

No

Date Posted

12/07/2026

📌 Lead Data Tester (India)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 India