Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Data & Platform Engineering

LG Ad Solutions; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LG Ad Solutions, based in New York, is looking for a Senior QA Engineer to lead quality assurance efforts within the Data & Platform Engineering team. The successful candidate will spearhead the development of test strategies for complex data pipeline challenges and lead initiatives to ensure high data quality and performance across platforms.

With over 7 years of experience in QA engineering, you will collaborate closely with engineers to establish quality gates and metrics, directly influencing the reliability of our advertising technology.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of QA engineering experience, testing data pipelines, backend services, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience building extensible test automation frameworks.
• Strong judgment on technical trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead comprehensive test strategies for data pipeline quality challenges.
• Build scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks.
• Establish and own data quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

QA engineering experience

Testing data pipelines

Design test plans

Test automation frameworks

Data engineering concepts

Quality metrics

CI/CD pipelines

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Apache Airflow

Apache Spark

Python

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

We require people to be on-site, 4 days/week at our Denver or NYC office and are unable to offer relocation support.

LG Ad Solutions is a global leader in connected TV (CTV) and cross-screen advertising. We pride ourselves on delivering state‑of‑the‑art advertising solutions that integrate seamlessly with today's ever‑evolving digital media landscape.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to be the quality leader embedded directly within our Data & Platform Engineering team. This team builds and owns terabyte‑scale data pipelines, platform tooling, and data governance frameworks that sit at the core of our advertising technology.

You will work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with data engineers, understand the complexity of distributed systems and large‑scale ETL workflows, and own quality from design through production.

This is not a generic QA role. You will need to speak the language of data engineering—Apache Airflow, Spark, Databricks, cloud infrastructure—and bring a testing mindset that addresses the unique challenges of high‑volume, high‑velocity data systems. If you thrive on ambiguity, care deeply about quality at scale, and want your work to directly impact advertising revenue, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Design and lead comprehensive test strategies for complex, ambiguous data pipeline and platform quality challenges, including ETL validation, data quality checks, and pipeline observability
• Build scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks tailored to distributed data systems—covering unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing of Spark jobs, Airflow DAGs, and backend services
• Establish and own data quality gates within CI/CD pipelines, ensuring schema validation, data completeness, and consistency checks are embedded throughout the development lifecycle
• Partner closely with Data Engineers, Platform Engineers, and the hiring manager to define the quality bar for new features and infrastructure changes
• Create instrumentation and metrics to measure quality both pre‑release and in production, including anomaly detection and alerting across our data ecosystem
• Proactively identify architectural deficiencies affecting data quality and lead initiatives to address them
• Drive parallelized test plan design to enable independent execution across a globally distributed team (US and India)
• Mentor engineers on testing best practices specific to data systems—data mocking, test data management, pipeline idempotency testing, and more
• Influence engineering decisions across team boundaries to continuously improve product quality and reduce defect escape rates

What You Bring

• 7+ years of QA engineering experience, with meaningful time spent testing data pipelines, backend services, or distributed systems
• Proven ability to design and execute test plans for complex, ambiguous problem areas with limited guidance
• Hands‑on experience building extensible test automation frameworks from scratch, not just maintaining existing ones
• Working knowledge of data engineering concepts: ETL/ELT patterns, pipeline orchestration, data quality dimensions (completeness, consistency, timeliness), schema validation
• Demonstrated ability to define and implement quality metrics, simplify testing processes, and remove bottlenecks
• Experience establishing quality gates in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Strong judgment on technical trade‑offs between short‑term needs and long‑term quality architecture
• Clear communicator who can convey testing strategy and quality risks to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving overall team testing capabilities

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Apache Airflow, Apache Spark (PySpark or Scala), or Databricks
• Experience testing AdTech systems (DSP, SSP, ACR, or audience data platforms)
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure testing on AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with data observability tools (Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, dbt tests, or similar)
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts and how they impact testability
• Experience with service virtualization, mock services, or chaos/resilience testing
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Proficiency in Python or another scripting language for test tooling

LG Ad Solutions provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [e-mail] to let us know the nature of your request.