Job Requirements

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

Work Experience

7-10Years

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