Automation Tester(Remote)

Job Title: Quality Engineer Automation & Data Testing

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Quality Engineer / Automation QE with strong expertise in test automation, API testing, ETL/ELT testing, SQL, data validation, Snowflake, and GCP. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and integrity of enterprise applications, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and event-driven systems.

Experience in Retail, MDM, POS, ERP, Inventory, or E-commerce environments is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks.
• Create and execute functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Develop automated tests for REST APIs, enterprise applications, integrations, and distributed systems.
• Perform API validation including request/response, authentication, authorization, error handling, and resiliency testing.
• Validate integrations across MDM, POS, ERP, inventory, and e-commerce systems.
• Test batch and real-time data flows and event-driven/Kafka-based integrations.
• Perform ETL/ELT testing, source-to-target validation, transformation validation, reconciliation, record-count, completeness, and data-quality checks.
• Develop SQL queries for data validation, analysis, and reconciliation.
• Validate data pipelines, warehouse objects, datasets, and outputs using Snowflake and GCP.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and implement quality gates and reporting.
• Support performance, load, and stress testing and identify potential bottlenecks.
• Identify, document, track, and resolve defects in collaboration with development and data engineering teams.
• Prepare test cases, scenarios, test data, execution reports, and quality documentation.
• Support continuous improvement and shift-left quality practices in Agile/Scrum environments.

Required Skills

Automation & API Testing

• Selenium
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Postman
• REST Assured
• Karate Framework

Programming

• Java
• Python
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Go is a plus

Data & Database Testing

• Strong SQL
• ETL / ELT Testing
• Data Validation & Reconciliation
• Data Quality Testing
• Database Testing
• Source-to-Target Validation
• Data Warehouse Testing
• Snowflake
• GCP

Integration & Cloud-Native Technologies

• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD Pipelines
• API Automation
• Microservices / Distributed Systems

Retail / MDM Experience – Preferred

Experience with:

• Retail data flows
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• Product Information Management
• POS systems
• ERP applications
• Inventory management
• Pricing & promotions
• Customer master data
• Omnichannel / e-commerce platforms

Experience with Informatica MDM, Reltio, Semarchy, or similar MDM platforms is a plus.

Performance Testing – Preferred

Experience with:

• JMeter
• Gatling
• LoadRunner

Experience

• 5+ years of overall Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on automation testing experience.
• Strong experience in API, integration, ETL/ELT, database, and data pipeline testing.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration
• Quality-first mindset
• Strong defect investigation and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced Agile environments

Naukri Key Skills

Automation Testing, Quality Engineering, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, API Testing, REST Assured, Postman, Java, Python, SQL, ETL Testing, ELT Testing, Data Validation, Snowflake, GCP, Kafka, MDM, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Data Quality, Database Testing, Retail Testing