QA Automation - Data Platforms

Bounteous; India; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Bounteous is seeking a QA Engineer with strong expertise in testing data platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience validating data pipelines, backend APIs, data transformations, dashboards, and platform-level workflows - with a strong understanding of Azure Synapse, Data Warehouse, and medallion architecture.

This role involves ensuring data accuracy, integrity, performance, security, and end-to-end quality across the platform.

Qualifications

• Experience validating data pipelines, backend APIs, data transformations and dashboards.
• Hands-on with Azure Synapse, Data Warehouse concepts and medallion architecture.
• Proficiency in SQL for data validation and troubleshooting.
• Experience with API testing tools and dashboard testing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Test planning and execution for data pipelines and ETL workflows.
• Validate data ingestion, transformation and reporting workflows for new client onboarding.
• Verify dashboards, KPIs and analytics views reflect accurate, up-to-date data.
• Collaborate with BI/testing teams on UI/UX and data validation.
• Security and access control testing to ensure compliance and governance.
• Contribute to CI/CD and regression testing in automation pipelines.

Skills

Data platform testing

ETL validation

Azure Synapse

SQL

API testing

BI dashboard testing

Test automation

Tools

Postman

RestAssured

Selenium

pytest

Robot Framework

Job description

5 to 7 years of experience
Skills: ata platform testing, ETL validation, Azure Synaps

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer with strong expertise in testing data platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience validating data pipelines, backend APIs, data transformations, dashboards, and platform-level workflows - with a strong understanding of Azure Synapse, Data Warehouse, and medallion architecture.

This role involves ensuring data accuracy, integrity, performance, security, and end-to-end quality across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

1. Test Planning & Execution

• Data pipelines and ETL workflows
• Frontend portals and reporting interfaces

2. ETL & Data Integrity Validation

• ETL data accuracy and integrity
• Data performance bottlenecks
• Scalability concerns across data workloads
• Work extensively on the Azure Synapse data platform, Data Warehouse layers, and medallion architecture.

3. Workflow & Onboarding Validation

• Validate data ingestion, transformation, and reporting workflows for new client onboarding.
• Ensure smooth end-to-end flow from source ingestion to reporting/analytics.
• Verify that dashboards, KPIs, and analytics views reflect accurate, consistent, and up-to-date data.
• Collaborate with BI/reporting teams for UI/UX and data validation.

5. Security & Access Control Testing

• Authorization accuracy
• Compliance and data governance requirements
• Role-based access across tools and datasets

6. Test Automation

• Regression testing
• Functional and integration testing
• API and data pipeline verification
• Contribute to continuous testing pipelines within CI/CD environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in data platform testing, ETL validation, and pipeline quality assurance.
• Hands-on with Azure Synapse, Data Warehouse concepts, and medallion architecture.
• Proficiency in SQL for data validation and troubleshooting.
• Experience with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured, etc.).
• Exposure to dashboard/reporting testing (Power BI, Tableau, etc.).
• Experience with automation frameworks (Selenium, pytest, Robot Framework, or similar).
• Strong analytical, debugging, and documentation skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Familiarity with data security/compliance testing frameworks.
• Understanding of cloud-native data architectures.

"Bounteous really is different. Every day, I have the pleasure of collaborating side-by-side with designers, strategists, and technologists who are at the absolute pinnacle of their fields. I partner with clients who have the imagination and daring to pursue big, audacious goals - and who trust us to shape the experiences that solve their most important challenges. It'd be difficult to overstate what Bounteous means to me. I'm constantly learning, growing, and building relationships. Being a part of this team has been the greatest experience of my career."

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