Automation Test Lead – Data & Platform Engineering

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong Python (test frameworks, libraries, CLI tools); advanced SQL
  
• Hands-on DBT, Airflow, Snowflake or similar; ETL/ELT and data modeling
  
• Great Expectations/Soda; lineage and catalog systems
  
• Kafka/Kinesis testing; delivery semantics
  
• Git workflows; CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  
• AWS; IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)
  

Desired Skills: API contract testing (PACT); basic UI automation; data mesh/data product exposure; Prometheus/Grafana; regulated domain experience (healthcare, life sciences, finance)

Experience: 9+ years in automation/QE; 5+ years building frameworks for data platforms at scale; track record improving reliability/reducing incidents