Senior Test Specialist

HCLTech
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📍 Hyderabad, India

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Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and test scalable batch and streaming data pipelines.
  • Validate end-to-end ETL and ELT workflows, including ingestion, curation, transformation and loading.
  • Perform data reconciliation, database testing and data-warehouse validation across large datasets.
  • Validate dashboards and BI reports against source data, transformation rules and business metrics.
  • Develop reusable test-automation frameworks using Python or Java and SQL.
  • Integrate automated data-quality tests into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Build and validate scalable data models using star, snowflake, normalised and denormalised structures.
  • Work with cloud data technologies such as BigQuery, Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Pub/Sub and Airflow.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, data-quality controls and secure data-access practices.
  • Diagnose defects and data-quality issues, document findings and drive resolution with relevant teams.
  • Contribute to data governance, metadata, catalogue and lineage processes.
  • Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, data stewards and business stakeholders.
  • Participate actively in Agile planning, refinement and retrospective ceremonies.

Required Skills and Experience

  • Proven experience in data engineering, data-quality engineering or ETL testing.
  • Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python; Java or Scala experience is beneficial.
  • Hands-on experience testing data ingestion, transformation, curation, loading and reporting processes.
  • Experience with cloud data services, preferably GCP or Azure.
  • Knowledge of distributed data-processing technologies such as Spark, Flink or Storm.
  • Familiarity with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar or Pub/Sub.
  • Strong understanding of database, data-warehouse and dimensional-modelling concepts.
  • Experience developing or using test-automation frameworks.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
  • Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or Cloud Composer.
  • Ability to validate dashboards developed using Power BI, Tableau or similar BI tools.
  • Understanding of cloud security, IAM, authentication, authorisation and encryption.
  • Experience using JIRA or Azure DevOps for defect tracking and project management.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to work independently, take ownership and deliver with minimal supervision.

Desirable Qualifications

  • ISTQB or CSQE certification.
  • Azure or GCP cloud certification.
  • Experience implementing reusable data-test automation frameworks.
  • Exposure to Kubernetes, containerisation, data governance, cataloguing and lineage tools.

In short :

 

  • experience in testing ETL or ETL - so I need someone who cna test ingestion, curation, load and also validate dashboards
  • someone who has automation mindset - any experience in having implemented automation framework is a plus
  • familiar with cloud platform
  • understanding of data models 
  • is able to run on their own with minimum hand holding (experience would define this)
  • collaborates with wider team and also communicates well

 

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and test scalable batch and streaming data pipelines.
  • Validate end-to-end ETL and ELT workflows, including ingestion, curation, transformation and loading.
  • Perform data reconciliation, database testing and data-warehouse validation across large datasets.
  • Validate dashboards and BI reports against source data, transformation rules and business metrics.
  • Develop reusable test-automation frameworks using Python or Java and SQL.
  • Integrate automated data-quality tests into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Build and validate scalable data models using star, snowflake, normalised and denormalised structures.
  • Work with cloud data technologies such as BigQuery, Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Pub/Sub and Airflow.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, data-quality controls and secure data-access practices.
  • Diagnose defects and data-quality issues, document findings and drive resolution with relevant teams.
  • Contribute to data governance, metadata, catalogue and lineage processes.
  • Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, data stewards and business stakeholders.
  • Participate actively in Agile planning, refinement and retrospective ceremonies.

Required Skills and Experience

  • Proven experience in data engineering, data-quality engineering or ETL testing.
  • Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python; Java or Scala experience is beneficial.
  • Hands-on experience testing data ingestion, transformation, curation, loading and reporting processes.
  • Experience with cloud data services, preferably GCP or Azure.
  • Knowledge of distributed data-processing technologies such as Spark, Flink or Storm.
  • Familiarity with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar or Pub/Sub.
  • Strong understanding of database, data-warehouse and dimensional-modelling concepts.
  • Experience developing or using test-automation frameworks.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
  • Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or Cloud Composer.
  • Ability to validate dashboards developed using Power BI, Tableau or similar BI tools.
  • Understanding of cloud security, IAM, authentication, authorisation and encryption.
  • Experience using JIRA or Azure DevOps for defect tracking and project management.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to work independently, take ownership and deliver with minimal supervision.

Desirable Qualifications

  • ISTQB or CSQE certification.
  • Azure or GCP cloud certification.
  • Experience implementing reusable data-test automation frameworks.
  • Exposure to Kubernetes, containerisation, data governance, cataloguing and lineage tools.

In short :

 

  • experience in testing ETL or ETL - so I need someone who cna test ingestion, curation, load and also validate dashboards
  • someone who has automation mindset - any experience in having implemented automation framework is a plus
  • familiar with cloud platform
  • understanding of data models 
  • is able to run on their own with minimum hand holding (experience would define this)
  • collaborates with wider team and also communicates well

 

Skill Requirements

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