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 & 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

Experience

- 9+ years in automation or quality engineering
- 5+ years building frameworks for data platforms at scale

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Valencia)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 Valencia