Senior Quality Engineer - Cloud Pipelines & Automation

Volantsoft Inc; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Volantsoft Inc. is seeking a Senior Quality Analyst to lead testing for the PISCES HUB platform. You will design Python-based automation, validate AWS data pipelines, and test event-driven components across cloud-native architectures.

The role requires 7+ years in quality engineering, extensive experience with AWS, Kafka, and data pipelines, and strong Python automation capabilities. Collaboration with DevOps, data engineers, and product teams is essential to ensure release readiness and quality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall experience in software quality engineering or software engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience testing AWS-based applications, Kafka integrations, and data pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automated testing frameworks using Python.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies for the PISCES HUB platform.
• Design and maintain Python-based automation frameworks for API, integration, data pipeline, and end-to-end testing.
• Validate AWS-based data pipelines, event-driven workflows, and distributed application components.
• Test Kafka producers, consumers, topics, partitions, schemas, offsets, retries, and failure-recovery scenarios.
• Validate data accuracy, completeness, consistency, transformation logic, lineage, and reconciliation across pipelines.
• Test configuration-driven solutions, including metadata-driven workflows, dynamic business rules, and configurable integration frameworks.
• Validate JSON-, YAML-, and XML-based configurations, including schema validation, version compatibility, error handling, and backward compatibility.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and negative testing.
• Validate REST APIs, asynchronous services, batch processes, and event-based integrations.
• Test SQL and NoSQL databases for data integrity, rule-configuration storage, versioning, auditability, and rollback capabilities.
• Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Test containerized workloads deployed using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECS.
• Use Dynatrace to monitor application behavior, analyze logs and traces, identify performance bottlenecks, and support root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, DevOps engineers, and data engineers to define acceptance criteria and improve overall product quality.
• Track defects through resolution and provide clear reporting on testing progress, quality risks, and release readiness.
• Use Windsurf and other AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate test-case creation, automation development, troubleshooting, and documentation.

Skills

Python

Pytest

AWS

Kafka

API testing

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

Windsurf

Tools

Postman

REST Assured

Job description

Volantsoft Inc. is seeking a Senior Quality Analyst to lead testing for the PISCES HUB platform. You will design Python-based automation, validate AWS data pipelines, and test event-driven components across cloud-native architectures.

The role requires 7+ years in quality engineering, extensive experience with AWS, Kafka, and data pipelines, and strong Python automation capabilities. Collaboration with DevOps, data engineers, and product teams is essential to ensure release readiness and quality.