Automation Engineer

Experience Requirements
. Data Testing Experience: 3+ years specifically in Big Data, Hadoop, or Cloud Data Warehouse environments.
. Good to have : Databricks Experience: 1+ years of experience testing pipelines within a Databricks environment.
. Automation Focus: Proven track record of moving from manual SQL checks to automated Python-based testing frameworks.
. Migration automation experience using Python

Required Certifications
. Good to have: Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate (at minimum).

Core Technical Skills
Data Validation & Frameworks
. Great Expectations / Pandera: Proficiency in using Python-based libraries to define data contracts and automated validation suites.
. DLT Expectations: Deep understanding of Delta Live Tables (DLT) expectations (Fail, Drop, Quarantining bad records).
. Advanced SQL: Expert-level SQL for complex data reconciliation, identifying duplicates, and null-value analysis across billions of records.

2. Python for QA (PySpark)
. Pytest-Spark: Experience using pytest to write unit tests for PySpark transformations and logic.
. Notebook Testing: Ability to write automated test notebooks that validate Medallion Architecture transitions (Bronze to Silver, Silver to Gold).
. Data Reconciliation: Building Python scripts to perform source-to-target counts and checksums across distributed file systems.

3. Performance & Integration Testing
. Scalability Testing: Ability to validate that data pipelines meet performance SLAs when data volume spikes.
. End-to-End Orchestration Testing: Testing the reliability of Databricks Workflows and handling of job failures/retries.
. Schema Evolution: Testing how pipelines handle upstream schema changes without breaking downstream Gold tables.

4. Governance & Security Testing
. Unity Catalog Validation: Testing Row-Level Security (RLS) and Column-Level Masking to ensure unauthorized users cannot see sensitive data.
. Data Lineage: Validating that data lineage in Unity Catalog correctly reflects the movement of data across the Lakehouse.

Preferred Candidate Background
. Data-First Mindset: Understanding that testing a Lakehouse is about testing the data and its behavior, not just the UI or API.
. Software Engineering Foundation: Candidates who know how to use Git (Branching/Merging) to manage their test code alongside the engineering team.
. Distributed Systems Knowledge: Basic understanding of Spark (shuffling, partitioning) to understand why data might be missing or duplicated in a distributed environment.

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