Lead Data Tester

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 Great 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