Test Data Manager

Role Summary:

• Lead the design and delivery of a federated testing platform within a horizontal data platform team.
• Create standards, tooling, and reference implementations to validate data products for functional/non-functional requirements.
• Focus on developing a self-service "testing-as-a-product" platform.
• Collaborate with offshore engineers and domain teams to scale adoption.

Federated Quality Model:

Horizontal Team's Role:

• Build the core testing platform.
• Define patterns, quality gates, and deliver SDKs, CI/CD templates, test data services, and observability tools.

Vertical Teams' Role:

• Author tests for their domains and adopt platform patterns.
• Own release readiness.

Governance:

• Centralized quality standards, risk-based gates, and auditable evidence consolidated at the platform level.

Key Outcomes:

• Deliver reusable testing platforms for data pipelines, APIs, and contracts.
• Provide CI/CD templates and test data services aligned with production.
• Build reference implementations covering a variety of test types.
• Centralize dashboards for test results and quality metrics.
• Onboard priority teams via guilds and training.
• Achieve outcomes like fewer escaped defects, reduced flakiness, and faster release readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Define federated test strategy, standards, and risk tiers with a balance of autonomy and guardrails.
• Architect and lead platform delivery, including:
• Test frameworks.
• SDKs (Python/Java).
• Integration with schema registries and resilience test harnesses.
• Create CI/CD templates and publish reference test suites.
• Enable vertical teams with blueprints, shift-left testing practices, playbooks, and training.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years in software quality automation, with 3–5 years building testing platforms or developer enablement.
• Experience in data platforms and data product testing.
• Strong hands-on skills in Python or Java automation frameworks and CI/CD integration.
• Proven success in establishing federated quality practices.
• Experience leading offshore teams and working in agile models.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with tools like:
• Data Testing: Great Expectations, Soda, Deequ.
• API/Contract Testing: REST Assured, Pact.
• Performance/Resilience Testing: k6, JMeter.
• Cloud/Data Platforms: Snowflake, Kafka, AWS.
• Knowledge of observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Grafana).