About the Role

Most Important

• Senior QA Leadership with 7+ years of experience managing quality assurance for complex, distributed systems, large-scale ETL/data pipelines, and mentoring engineering teams.

• End-to-End API & Pipeline QA expertise to own testing strategies across the complete data lifecycle, including push/pull ingestion workflows and complex consumption endpoints.

• Large-Scale Data Validation skills to verify millions of JSON records using cloud storage, SQL querying (such as Athena), and metadata mapping validation.

• Automation Framework Architecture proficiency, specifically designing and maintaining scalable API and backend automation frameworks using JavaScript (Jest) or Python (Pytest) integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

• Cloud Ecosystem Expertise heavily focused on AWS environments (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, SQS/SNS) and search/analytics engines like OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.

• Performance & Load Testing mastery using tools like Locust to analyze system bottlenecks, API latency, and high-volume throughput.

• Observability & Documentation experience building monitoring dashboards to track system health and writing high-quality test strategies and performance reports.

Nice to Have

• AI & Semantic Search Validation involving embedding generation, vector-based retrieval, or pioneering LLM-based automated test case generation.

• Advanced Test Infrastructure experience architecting automated, ephemeral test environments, contract testing, or service virtualization.

• Container & Streaming QA knowledge, including event-driven/streaming systems, Docker, and Kubernetes for test deployments.

• Advanced Database Validation working with complex data models in Vector and Graph databases.

Personal Traits

• Strategic QA Leader who champions "shift-left" practices in the SDLC and successfully aligns quality goals across Product, Engineering, and DevOps stakeholders.

• Technical Mentor dedicated to fostering growth within QA teams and guiding engineers through complex debugging and production issues.

• Analytical Problem Solver capable of deconstructing complex production anomalies and analyzing intricate data workflows.

• Cross-Functional Partner who possesses excellent communication skills to collaborate seamlessly with diverse technical leadership and distribute alignment across teams.