Automation Test Lead

October 13, 2026

Remote

Lead

Barcelona

Description

The role focuses on data quality across batch and streaming pipelines, APIs and backend services. It combines test automation architecture, data testing frameworks, observability integration and CI/CD enforcement. The lead works cross-functionally with data engineers, platform teams and architects, and owns incident analysis and prevention.

Responsibilities

Test automation architecture and strategy for data pipelines, APIs and backend services
Data testing framework engineering with SQL-based assertions, reconciliation and schema validation checks
Proactive destructive testing for schema drift, backward incompatibility, late arriving data and partial failures
ETL and streaming validation at scale with row, aggregate and hash-based reconciliation
Incremental and backfill validation for ETL and streaming pipelines
Data quality and observability integration with Great Expectations and Soda
Enforcing accuracy, completeness, uniqueness and timeliness of data
CI/CD and DataOps enforcement with pre-merge gates, release blockers and parallel test execution
Test data management including synthetic data generation, masking and anonymization
Performance and reliability testing with pipeline and query benchmarks, concurrency and stress testing
Security and compliance validation for PII or PHI exposure, encryption and access control
Cross-functional quality leadership with data engineers, platform teams and architects
Challenge poor design decisions that impact reliability
Incident analysis and prevention to reduce flaky tests and false alarms

Requirements

Programming and framework development skills
Knowledge of the data engineering ecosystem
Data quality and observability expertise
Streaming systems knowledge
CI/CD and DevOps skills
Cloud and infrastructure 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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