• 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

• 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

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