Automation Test Engineering

Job TitleMust Have Technical/Functional Skills• Define and own cross-team test architecture and frameworks for ETL/ELT, Databricks/Spark, APIs, and UIs that scale across multiple product teams and environments.• Design and implement comprehensive data validation and data-quality strategies for large-scale telemetry processing (schema validation, row counts, statistical checks, delta comparisons, anomaly detection, drift detection).• Architect and enforce CI/CD-integrated automated testing pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions) supporting pre-deploy gating, contract testing, canary verification, and regression protection.• Lead synthetic test data generation strategies and robust mocking/stubbing approaches for downstream dependencies; ensure environment-aware and secure test harnesses for sensitive telemetry.• Drive performance, scalability, and distributed load testing for Spark jobs and supporting microservices; quantify bottlenecks and propose system- and code-level remediation.• Collaborate with data engineering, platform, DevOps, and product leadership to define acceptance criteria, release quality gates, and automated verification SLAs.• Implement and maintain observability for test executions; publish automation health metrics (pass rates, flakiness, coverage, mean time to detection) and maintain executive-facing dashboards.• Own test documentation, runbooks, failure triage playbooks, and on-call handover for production incidents related to data correctness and test infrastructure.• Lead and grow a high-performing QA/test automation capability — hire, coach, establish standards, and promote best practices organization-wideRoles & Responsibilities• 8+ years of professional software engineering and testing experience, including technical ownership of QA/test practices across the SDLC.• 3+ years leading or mentoring engineering/QA teams in technical areas (Test Lead, Principal QA Engineer, or similar).• Deep knowledge of data engineering and lakehouse patterns: partitioning strategies, ACID/Delta semantics, schema evolution, delta table optimization, CDC, time-travel, and data lineage; able to design verification approaches for Databricks/Spark/Delta Lake systems.• Proven experience architecting and building scalable automated test frameworks and embedding them into enterprise CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.• Strong software engineering skills with extensive coding experience in Python, Java, or Scala for test development and automation; ability to review and contribute production-grade code.• Extensive experience testing data pipelines and big-data processing (Databricks, Spark/PySpark, Delta Lake, ADLS Gen2) or equivalent streaming/batch platforms at scale.