Role: Automation Test lead Location: Barcelona, Spain - Hybrid Job Type: Contract Need minimum of 5+ years building frameworks for data platforms at scale 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
- Brake 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 & Dev Ops
- 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

📌 Automation Engineer (España)
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📍 España