Lead Data Quality Engineer - Automation & Data Integrity

Kingfisher; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 257,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingfisher plc is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer (Data) to provide technical leadership across Quality Engineering in the Data Engineering environment. You will shape quality strategy and ensure reliability, integrity and performance of data platforms and products.

Work closely with Data Engineers, Data Designers and Product Owners to drive testing standards, automation and best practices, embedding quality throughout the SDLC and driving continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Quality Engineering, ideally within Data Engineering, Big Data or complex data platforms.
• Strong expertise in quality principles, test strategy, automation and modern QA practices.
• Proven ability to define and drive test strategies, standards and best practices across teams.
• Excellent SQL skills for validating complex datasets and data transformations.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive Quality Engineering strategy, standards and best practices across data platforms, pipelines and products.
• Lead the design and development of automated and manual test solutions to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Lead root-cause analysis for complex quality issues and drive preventative actions.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, Data Designers and Product Owners to define quality requirements and testing approaches.
• Champion shift-left testing, automation and quality as a shared engineering responsibility.
• Lead testing across data integration, ETL/ELT processes and data transformations.
• Champion continuous testing and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers to grow Quality Engineering capability.
• Explore AI applications to improve test automation and data validation.

Skills

Quality engineering

SQL

Python

PySpark

Databricks

CI/CD

Test automation

Stakeholder management

English language

Tools

Databricks

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Kingfisher plc is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer (Data) to provide technical leadership across Quality Engineering in the Data Engineering environment. You will shape quality strategy and ensure reliability, integrity and performance of data platforms and products.

Work closely with Data Engineers, Data Designers and Product Owners to drive testing standards, automation and best practices, embedding quality throughout the SDLC and driving continuous improvement.