We're looking for a Principal Data Engineer - QA This role is Office Based, Pune Office

Principal Data Engineer - QA

We’re looking for a Principal Data Engineer - QA in Pune or Hyderabad who believes data quality isn’t a phase — it’s a discipline. You’ll join a growing team with outsized ownership, building the quality engineering practice for a contemporary enterprise data platform running on Snowflake, dbt, Matillion, and Salesforce Agentforce. You’ll have direct executive visibility and the mandate to define what “trusted data” means across the company.

This role is deeply hands-on. You’ll spend most of your time writing code — SQL tests, Python automation, validation frameworks — not just reviewing test plans. But you’ll also set the strategic direction: what gets tested, how, and why. We need someone who can hit the ground running from day one — you’ve built quality practices before, you know what works and what doesn’t, and you’ll start contributing immediately. We also want someone who brings ideas: you see a gap in coverage,



you don’t just flag it — you propose a solution and build it. If you’re the kind of engineer who gets genuinely frustrated by a dashboard showing the wrong number and won’t rest until you’ve traced it back to the root cause, this is your job.

In this role you will…

Own and define the end-to-end QA and test strategy for enterprise data and analytics platforms while remaining deeply hands-on in execution.
Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks, personally contributing code for data validation, regression, reconciliation, and pipeline monitoring.
Lead test automation using SQL and Python to validate Snowflake data models, dbt transformations, and downstream analytics.
Apply AI-driven testing techniques including test generation, anomaly detection, predictive regression analysis, and intelligent test selection to improve coverage.
Partner with Data Engineering to embed quality directly into dbt models, ELT pipelines

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