Lead Test Engineer

Crescendo Global Leadership Hiring India; Pune District, Gurugram District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Crescendo Global Leadership Hiring India is seeking an experienced Test Lead to drive quality across data-centric projects in Pune. You will define the test strategy, organize the testing team, and ensure timely delivery with robust risk mitigation.

You will coordinate with clients, manage resources, review test artifacts, and report progress in daily or weekly updates. Strong skills in SQL, PySpark, Spark SQL and Python are essential to validate data pipelines and ETL processes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading test strategy and test planning.
• Ability to coordinate with clients and project managers.
• Strong communication and reporting skills.
• Familiarity with big data testing and ETL pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead test planning, estimation, and resource coordination.
• Organize testing kickoff meetings and define test strategy.
• Act as single point of contact between development and testers.
• Prepare and review test artifacts and status reports.
• Escalate issues to PM or senior test manager.

Skills

Test Leadership

Test Strategy

Client Communication

Status Reporting

Big Data Testing

Tools

SQL

PySpark

Spark SQL

Python

ETL

SQL Database

Job description

Strong In/should have:

• Understanding the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• Estimating and obtaining management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
• Organizing the testing kick-off meeting
• Defining the Test Strategy
• Building a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
• Identifying Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).
• Developed the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Arranging the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Assigning task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Ensuring content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Documenting, implementing, monitoring, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Reviewing the Test Cases documents.
• Keeping track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.

Escalating the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager.

• Organizing the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Strong Communication with the Client.
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.
• Tracking and preparing the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Reviewed various reports prepared by Test engineers.

KEYWORDS: BIG DATA TESTING, SQL, TEST STRATEGY, ETL, DATAWAREHOUSE, TEST PLANNING, BUG REPORTING, SYSTEM TEST, TEST LEAD, TEST MANAGER, SQL Database, PySpark, Spark SQL, Python