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 & DataOps 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

📌 Automation Engineer (Barcelona)
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📍 Barcelona