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# Automation Test lead

- **Company:** W3Global
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Testing, DevOps, Microsoft UI Automation, Operational Databases, Software Reliability Testing, DataOps, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Test Execution Engine, Concurrency, Backend, Data Management, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Data Generation
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://es.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b0a3b9cca3281e87

## About the Role

* 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

#INDEU

## Description

* 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


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