GCP DATA INGESTION QA ENGINEER / QA ANALYST

JOB DESCRIPTION: GCP DATA INGESTION QA ENGINEER / QA ANALYST

Role: QA Engineer / QA Analyst – GCP Data Ingestion Framework

Experience: 5 Years

Work Location: Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad

ROLE SUMMARY

We are seeking a hands-on QA Engineer or QA Analyst to validate an enterprise data ingestion framework built using Java, microservices, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Kubernetes.

The candidate will define and execute a comprehensive quality strategy covering data ingestion, processing, data accuracy, framework reliability, error handling, monitoring, and operational readiness.

The role includes validating full loads, incremental loads, and partition-overwrite loads, with testing and release validation across SIT, PRE-PROD, and PROD environments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Test Strategy and Requirements Traceability
• Review functional, non-functional, interface, data-quality, security, and operational requirements.
• Create risk-based test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and traceability matrices.
• Define test data requirements, environment dependencies, entry/exit criteria, and signoff evidence.
• Maintain traceability across requirements, test cases, defects, retesting, and release approvals.
• Functional and Data Validation
• Validate full-load, incremental-load, and partition-overwrite processing.
• Test watermarking, changed-data detection, restartability, idempotency, and duplicate prevention.
• Perform source-to-target reconciliation, record-count validation, control-total checks, schema validation, and data-type verification.
• Validate file, API, database, messaging, and cloud-storage ingestion scenarios.
• Test schema evolution, malformed records, null values, duplicate records, empty inputs, large files, and boundary conditions.
• Test Automation and Tooling
• Develop and maintain automated API, integration, data-validation, regression, and smoke tests.
• Use Java-based testing frameworks and suitable tools for REST services, databases, files.

Pay: Up to ₹1,500,000.00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Pune, Maharashtra