Lead QA Engineer: Data Platform & Test Automation

Luxoft Poland; Poland; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Poland is seeking a Technical Lead QA Engineer to drive automation strategy for data platforms, ETL processes, and backend systems. You will design and maintain test frameworks, lead adoption across teams, and ensure data quality across DWH, Data Lake, and BigData environments.

The role requires leadership experience, strong Python and Pytest skills, and hands-on API/CI/CD testing. You will collaborate with platform, infra, and ML engineers in a fast-paced, data-driven setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years in QA Automation.
• Strong Python (3+ years) and ability to write clean automation code.
• Proven Pytest experience with fixtures, parametrization, markers.
• Daily Git usage with branching, PR reviews.
• Azure DevOps for designing and automating API tests.
• Strong SQL for data validation across ETL pipelines.
• Databricks experience with actual testing (not just notebooks).
• Experience with test automation tools to build and scale frameworks.
• Understanding CI/CD processes and test integration into pipelines.
• Familiarity with data warehouses and ETL testing.
• Ability to own architecture and drive quality strategy.
• Experience collaborating with developers and mentoring teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated test frameworks (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Drive change: promote test automation across teams and gain stakeholder buy-in.
• Automate data quality checks for DWH, Data lake, and BigData environments.
• Create reusable test tools/packages for multiple projects.
• Automate API and backend testing (REST/gRPC).
• Run performance, scalability, and fault-tolerance tests.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML engineers.

Skills

QA Leadership

Python

Pytest

Git

Azure DevOps

SQL

Databricks testing

CI/CD

Data Warehousing/ETL testing

API testing

Tools

Databricks

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Luxoft Poland is seeking a Technical Lead QA Engineer to drive automation strategy for data platforms, ETL processes, and backend systems. You will design and maintain test frameworks, lead adoption across teams, and ensure data quality across DWH, Data Lake, and BigData environments.

The role requires leadership experience, strong Python and Pytest skills, and hands-on API/CI/CD testing. You will collaborate with platform, infra, and ML engineers in a fast-paced, data-driven setting.