Big Data Test Automation Lead (Kafka, Trino, Dataiku)

EPAM Systems; Zürich; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks of vacation

EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESo

Enhanced parental leave

Extended pension plan

Daily sickness allowance insurance

Employee assistance program

Training & certifications

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Zurich is seeking a BigData Test Automation Specialist to design and implement a robust testing strategy for a modern big data platform in the banking sector.

You will work with Trino, Kafka, Iceberg and Dataiku to ensure data quality, platform resilience and system integrity. The role focuses on developing scalable test frameworks, validating streaming pipelines, and integrating automated Dataiku scenarios into CI/CD pipelines, while building resilient test infra and

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable test automation frameworks for big data.
• Ability to design and implement data quality checks for schemas.
• Hands-on with streaming data pipelines using Kafka.
• Experience validating Hive metastore schemas and data.
• Strong Python development and Pytest experience.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement comprehensive test automation strategies for a big data platform.
• Develop and maintain scalable test frameworks.
• Implement declarative data quality checks for schemas.
• Create and manage automated tests for complex SQL transformations.
• Test and validate Hive metastore schemas and data integrity.
• Develop tests for streaming data pipelines using Kafka and Testcontainers.
• Automate Dataiku DSS scenarios and integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and optimize CI/CD infrastructure for efficient big data testing.
• Perform resilience and chaos testing to ensure platform stability.
• Use data versioning patterns like Write-Audit-Publish for isolated and safe testing.

Skills

Python

Pytest

Test automation

Big data

CI/CD

SQL

Kafka

Trino

Hive

Data quality

Dataiku

Docker

Testcontainers

S3

dbt

SQLMesh

Data versioning

Tools

Docker

Testcontainers

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Dataiku

dbt

SQLMesh

Kafka

Trino

Hive

S3

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Zurich is seeking a BigData Test Automation Specialist to design and implement a robust testing strategy for a modern big data platform in the banking sector.

You will work with Trino, Kafka, Iceberg and Dataiku to ensure data quality, platform resilience and system integrity. The role focuses on developing scalable test frameworks, validating streaming pipelines, and integrating automated Dataiku scenarios into CI/CD pipelines, while building resilient test infra and