
Lead Test Engineer (Test Automation, ETL, Software Testing)
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Testing Automation Leadership: Design and deploy automated testing frameworks for ETL pipelines, analytical databases, DataMart, and data lakes.
- Quality Champion: Foster a quality-first mindset, Continuously assess and optimize QA processes, introducing innovative methodologies and tools to improve speed, accuracy, and scalability. Identify gaps, challenge existing processes, and drive transformative change in testing and data quality assurance.
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing test engineering team.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with data engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to define requirements and acceptance criteria, supporting data initiatives.
- Provide defect metrics and trends analysis to project teams.
- BE/BS degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience
- 2+ years of experience managing/leading QA/Test processes & team.
- Experience of Agile Software Development & Testing methods for deployment in cloud environments.
- Experience in any ETL and Reporting tool with a cloud-based database/data lakes.
- Extensive experience in writing and troubleshooting complex SQL queries.
- Experience in validating the dashboards/reports on any reporting tool like Power BI/ Tableau.
- Experience in different types of testing like Black Box testing, Smoke testing, Functional Testing, System Integration testing, Regression testing, End-to-End Testing, Stress Testing etc.
- Hands-on experience on Project and Test management tools JIRA, AIO etc.
- Strong understanding of basic concepts to testing principles, TDD, and all types of Black/Grey Box testing
- AI Tooling: Experience implementing AI/ML-driven tools for test case generation, data validation, anomaly detection, and regression testing.
- Experience in scripting languages like Python/Java to create automated Test Scripts.
- Knowledge and experience with Selenium, Playwright.
- Good understanding of API Testing and best practices.
- Experience in Performance testing with tools like JMeter.
- Exposure to Cloud based platforms and pipelines like Azure Data Factory.
- Experience in Master Data Management (MDM) Testing.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field required
- Excellent communication skills.
- Able to work independently or within a team proactively in a fast-paced AGILE-SCRUM environment.
- Owns success – Takes responsibility for the successful delivery of the solutions.
- Strong desire to improve upon their skills in tools and technologies