Technical Test Lead

Location: Irvine, CA 92618
Work Model: Hybrid
Contract Duration: 6 Months
 

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Technical Test Lead / Integration Test Lead with strong expertise in Databricks, Unity Catalog, AWS Cloud, and End-to-End (E2E) testing. The ideal candidate will lead integration testing initiatives for enterprise-scale data and application integrations, ensuring quality, reliability, security, and seamless interoperability across complex platforms.

The candidate will be responsible for defining test strategies, coordinating test execution, managing defects and risks, and validating data pipelines, governance controls, integrations, and business-critical workflows from source to target systems.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Databricks
• Hands-on experience with Unity Catalog
• Strong experience with AWS Cloud Services
• Extensive Integration Testing experience
• Strong End-to-End (E2E) Testing experience
• Data pipeline and data integration testing
• Data quality and reconciliation testing
• Test strategy, planning, and execution
• Defect management and risk assessment
• Cross-application and cross-platform testing
• Enterprise data migration and transformation validation
• Release management and production readiness support
• Agile/Scrum and continuous testing methodologies
• Strong stakeholder and cross-functional team coordination

Nice-to-Have Skills

• AWS Athena
• Dremio
• Oracle
• pgAdmin
• Experience with enterprise data platforms and cloud-based integrations

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the Integration Test Lead and primary point of contact for applications assigned under the project.
• Define and execute comprehensive integration and E2E test strategies for enterprise applications and data platforms.
• Lead test planning, estimation, execution, defect management, and reporting.
• Validate Databricks data platforms, data pipelines, transformations, and integrations.
• Validate Unity Catalog security, access controls, permissions, and governance.
• Design and execute testing across AWS cloud services and integrated applications.
• Perform data validation, reconciliation, and source-to-target testing.
• Coordinate testing across multiple applications, platforms, vendors, and technical teams.
• Identify testing risks, dependencies, and gaps and drive them to resolution.
• Support release management, deployment validation, and production readiness activities.
• Work closely with development, business, architecture, infrastructure, and QA teams.
• Provide regular testing status, defect metrics, risks, and progress updates to stakeholders.
• Support Agile/Scrum ceremonies and promote continuous testing practices.

Top 3 Responsibilities

1. Integration Test Leadership: Act as the primary Integration Test Lead/POC for assigned applications and coordinate end-to-end testing activities.
2. Technical Validation: Lead testing of Databricks, Unity Catalog, AWS integrations, data pipelines, security controls, and source-to-target data flows.
3. Quality & Delivery: Manage test execution, defects, risks, stakeholder coordination, and production-readiness validation to ensure successful releases.
    
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