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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Virtusa
- **Location:** 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, Data Mesh, DataOps, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Test Execution Engine, Great Expectations (Foster Youth College-readiness and Support Program), Concurrency, Backend, Data Management, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Data Generation
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobleads.com/es/job/senior-software-engineer--valencia--ea0b19feca44d057cda5ec8251c08cb27

## 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

Experience

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

## Description

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