Principal Cloud Test Engineer: Data Platform Quality
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Job summary
Stats NZ is hiring a Principal Cloud Test Engineer to lead quality engineering for the IDI data platform. You will shape testing strategies, drive automation, and guide architecture decisions across cloud platforms and data pipelines.
The role offers senior leadership with strong collaboration across government datasets and national statistics initiatives. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in test automation, cloud-native testing, and mentoring teams to deliver scalable, resilient
Qualifications
- Proven experience operating at Principal Test Engineer level or equivalent senior leadership role.
- Deep experience designing scalable test automation architectures and CI/CD integration.
- Strong full-stack engineering capability across architecture, data, APIs, and performance.
- Senior-level experience with modern cloud platforms and cloud-native practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead adoption of modern quality-engineering practices across the Data Platform team.
- Develop and maintain data platform QA approaches, automation, data quality controls.
- Embed automation-first practices including CI/CD integrated testing and quality gates.
- Design reusable test architectures and tooling supporting multiple teams and programmes.
- Provide technical guidance on usability, security, reliability, and performance.
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Job description
Stats NZ is hiring a Principal Cloud Test Engineer to lead quality engineering for the IDI data platform. You will shape testing strategies, drive automation, and guide architecture decisions across cloud platforms and data pipelines.
The role offers senior leadership with strong collaboration across government datasets and national statistics initiatives. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in test automation, cloud-native testing, and mentoring teams to deliver scalable, resilient
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