Lead Quality Engineer - Data Distribution

About the Role:

We are looking for a skilled QA Engineer to join our agile development team and take ownership of quality across core components and cloud data warehouse platforms. If you're passionate about testing, automation, and data reliability, this is a great opportunity to work with modern technologies and complex systems.

Experience with cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, or BigQuery will be a strong plus.

Youll work closely with data engineers and platform teams to build robust automated test frameworks that help us ensure scalable, reliable, and accurate systems.

What Youll Do:

• Develop and implement test strategies for core services and data pipelines.
• Build and execute functional, integration, and regression tests on cloud-native systems.
• Create reusable test suites to validate data integrity, schema changes, and metadata flows.
• Work closely with developers and stakeholders to ensure platform stability.
• Continuously improve test coverage and optimize test execution time.
• Test APIs and services related to onboarding, data ingestion, and data shares.
• Validate data consistency from source system (core components) through to cloud warehouses.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills Were Looking For:

Must-Have:

• Strong focus on test automation.
• Core Java and/or Python.
• Experience with AWS and GCP.
• Experience with testing of backend services or data platforms.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or BigQuery.
• Solid understanding of API testing and data transformation validation.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with large-scale data validation.
• Knowledge of Pub/Sub, Delta Lake, or data lakehouse architectures.
• Hands-on with test automation tools and frameworks.

Soft Skills:

• High attention to detail and a quality-focused mindset.
• Strong communicator and team collaborator.
• Able to work independently in a fast-paced, cross-functional team.
• Abie to analyse complex issues and develop effective solutions.