Automation Engineer - Data QA for Big Data & Blockchain

Harper Paige; Washington; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Harper Paige in Washington, DC seeks a mid-level Automation Engineer / Data QA/Tester to support a Federal client. The role focuses on testing, data quality and automation for big data blockchain solutions across a diverse user base.

You will develop test plans, build automation frameworks and collaborate with product management, analysts, and developers to ensure data integrity and reliable deliverables. Requires 6+ years in automated testing and US citizenship with ability to obtain public

Qualifications

• 6+ years of automated testing in big data environments.
• Experience triaging, debugging, and monitoring automated tests.
• Strong SQL/Python/R for data management and validation.
• Experience with AWS (EMR, Glue, Spark) and data lake technologies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and testing within development cycles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated test suites for data ingestion and validation.
• Create test plans and procedures for system acceptance testing.
• Design test cases with developers to ensure data integrity.
• Execute tests across multi-system environments and report bottlenecks.
• Build automation frameworks for API service testing.

Skills

Big data testing

Automation testing

CI/CD testing

Data QA

Unix/Linux

SQL

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

REST Assured

Cucumber

Selenium WebDriver

Gherkin

MongoDB

Redshift

Starburst

Job description

Harper Paige in Washington, DC seeks a mid-level Automation Engineer / Data QA/Tester to support a Federal client. The role focuses on testing, data quality and automation for big data blockchain solutions across a diverse user base.

You will develop test plans, build automation frameworks and collaborate with product management, analysts, and developers to ensure data integrity and reliable deliverables. Requires 6+ years in automated testing and US citizenship with ability to obtain public