Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.
- Develop a deep understanding of Tekion's enterprise data model, business domains, and data flows.
- Own end-to-end quality for data products published through the Enterprise Data Platform.
- Design and implement automated testing frameworks for data pipelines, transformations, APIs, and platform capabilities.
- Validate data correctness, completeness, consistency, freshness, and lineage across the data platform.
- Build scalable reconciliation frameworks to compare Data Lake outputs against source systems, including:
- Operational databases
- Product UIs
- Upstream services
- Business reports and dashboards
- Define data quality metrics, validation rules, and automated monitoring to detect anomalies before they impact customers.
- Partner with engineering teams to validate new platform capabilities, including ingestion, transformations, data sharing, governance, and performance.
- Design regression suites for large-scale data platform changes and migrations.
- Drive root cause analysis for production data quality issues and collaborate with engineering teams on preventive improvements.
- Define and execute test strategies for AI-powered Analytics Agent capabilities by:
- Validating user intents
- Creating evaluation datasets (evals)
- Measuring response accuracy and consistency
- Identifying hallucinations and edge cases
- Continuously improving evaluation coverage
- Champion quality engineering best practices across the Data Platform organization.
- Experience of 8+ years in SDET for Data engineering and Data Platform
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Skills Required
- 8+ years experience as SDET focused on Data Engineering and Data Platform
- Design and implement automated testing frameworks for data pipelines, transformations, and APIs
- Validate data correctness, completeness, consistency, freshness, and lineage across data platforms
- Build scalable reconciliation frameworks comparing data lake outputs against operational databases, UIs, upstream services, and reports
- Define data quality metrics, validation rules, and automated monitoring to detect anomalies
- Design regression suites for large-scale data platform changes and migrations
- Define and execute test strategies for AI-powered analytics agent: create eval datasets, validate user intents, measure accuracy, and identify hallucinations
- Drive root cause analysis for production data quality issues and collaborate with engineering teams on preventive improvements
Tekion Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Tekion and has not been reviewed or approved by Tekion.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision for many U.S. roles, often extending to families. Additional options like HSA/FSA and pet insurance are cited as part of a robust health offering.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive overall, with total rewards (pay, stock, equity, and benefits) frequently viewed favorably. Many accounts characterize compensation as strong alongside comprehensive benefits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks such as free meals/snacks, wellness resources, and on-site amenities are highlighted. Flexible or remote options are available for some roles, adding convenience and flexibility.
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What We Do
At Tekion, we believe that business applications don’t have to be boring. In fact, they should be simple, fun and cool! They should be as delightful to use as your favorite social or consumer application, yet powerful enough to seamlessly and efficiently run global businesses that provide unparalleled consumer experience without compromise. Founded by visionary entrepreneur and innovator Jay Vijayan, we are building the world’s best business applications on the cloud starting with the automotive retail industry. We inherently use cutting-edge technologies like big data, machine learning/AI, and human computer interaction (voice, touch, vision, sensors and IoT). We are inventing new technology along the way to overcome barriers and solve big problems, all while having a blast doing it! Our flagship product offering, Automotive Retail Cloud ™- an industry-first cloud-native retail platform, including all functionalities of a Dealer Management System (DMS) launched recently.
