Automation Testing Engineer

Overview

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As an Automation Testing Engineer
, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and executing automated test solutions across a modern data platform. Your role will involve working closely with tools such as Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure the accuracy and reliability of complex data pipelines, analytics systems, and BI reporting solutions. You will play a crucial part in building scalable automated test frameworks, validating data transformations, and proactively identifying data quality issues within distributed systems and enterprise data workflows.

Collaboration with Data Engineers, Architects, QA Analysts, and Business Analysts will be essential to define test cases based on business logic and data requirements.

To excel in this role, you should have strong experience with Python, SQL, and data platforms. Exposure to building comprehensive test coverage using Python, SQL, and PySpark for validating data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and Data Lakehouse transformations will be beneficial. Additionally, experience in developing and executing automated test plans for data ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers will help you succeed in this position.

You will also need to have the ability to validate data transformations within Delta Lake tables, ensuring schema changes and data integrity are handled appropriately. Monitoring production pipelines, participating in defect triage, root cause analysis, and resolution of data quality issues will be part of your responsibilities. Documenting test strategies, test cases, test results, defect logs, and maintaining trace for audit and compliance purposes will also be crucial in this role.

• Strong Python, SQL, and Databricks experience

• Bachelor's Degree and one year of relevant work experience OR 5 years of relevant work experience

• US citizenship

• Experience building scalable automated test frameworks. Ability to validate complex data transformations

• Knowledge of data quality issues and root cause analysis. Ability to design, implement, and execute automated test solutions

• Knowledge of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data Lakehouse transformations

• Experience with BI platforms such as Quick Sight, Tableau, or Power BI

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland
. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. () We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed Final date to receive applications.

The pay range for the states listed above is:

$69,200—$100,000 USD

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