Champion a whole-team quality approach across data pipelines, APIs, and analytics features.
Embed testing, risk analysis, and observability considerations early in design and planning including writing test strategy and plans.
Test AWS analytics components such as Kinesis, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, Athena, S3, and event-driven workflows.
Use AWS-native tooling (CloudWatch, X-Ray) to support debugging and observability.
Validate data quality, transformations, schema changes, and end-to-end pipeline behaviour at scale.
Ensure effective automation at the appropriate layers (API/service, data validation, and UI as needed).
Integrate automated checks into CI/CD and support reliable, fast feedback loops.
Contribute to non-functional testing (performance, scalability, resilience, security).
Facilitate collaborative quality activities (exploratory testing, risk workshops, bug bashes).
Build a strong understanding of customer workflows and use production telemetry to guide testing.

7+ years in Software Testing/Quality Engineering, including experience with data-heavy or analytics systems.
Hands-on experience validating ETL/ELT pipelines, large datasets, and reporting workloads.
Experience with AWS services relevant to analytics and data platforms (e.g., Kinesis, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, Athena, DynamoDB, S3, EMR).
Experience with GitLab (or equivalent CI/CD platform) for automated testing and delivery.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and API/service testing.
Proficient in at least one programming language (preferably in Python and TypeScript).
Experience building or contributing to automated testing frameworks (API/service and data validation).
Strong grounding in agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
Experience with test data generation techniques and tools, including synthetic data creation, data masking.
Experience establishing a whole-team quality strategy and coaching teammates.

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Senior Software Test Engineer – Data & Analytics

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