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We are looking for an QA Automation Engineer to join our Big Data Platform team. You will build and maintain automated tests for API-based data access and Spark data processing jobs, working with data engineers to ensure our data pipelines are accurate, reliable, and performant.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automated test scripts for REST/API-based data access services
- Test Spark job outputs for correct transformations, aggregations, and schema
- Validate data pipelines end-to-end for completeness, accuracy, and consistency
- Write SQL queries to verify data in databases/data lakes against expected results
- Work with data engineers/PMs to define test scope from pipeline requirements
- Log and track defects (e.g., JIRA) and support root cause analysis
- Debug and analyze logs to identify failure root cause and enable resolution
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Maintain deployment pipelines and workloads for QA environments
- 7-9 years of QA/automation experience
- Working knowledge of Python or Java for test scripting
- Exposure to REST API testing (Postman, RestAssured, or requests)
- Basic understanding of big data concepts and Apache Spark (DataFrames, jobs, transformations)
- Good SQL skills for data validation
- Exposure to CI/CD tools (Jenkins/GitLab CI) and Git
- Strong analytical skills and good communication for cross-functional collaboration
Skills Required
- 2-4 years of QA or automation experience
- Working knowledge of Python or Java for test scripting
- Exposure to REST API testing using Postman, RestAssured, or requests
- Basic understanding of big data concepts and Apache Spark, including DataFrames, jobs, and transformations
- Good SQL skills for data validation
- Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
- Experience with Git
- Strong analytical skills
- Good communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
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Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
