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 Excellent Expectations, Soda Accuracy, completeness, uniqueness, timeliness

• CI/CD & Data Ops 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

📌 Lead Data Tester (Chennai)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 Chennai