Test Engineer, Cloud & Data Platform (Lakehouse)
Working : Hybrid (2 days from office)
Office Location: London, UK
## Core Technical Skills
| Area | Level |
|------|-------|
| Terraform (IaC testing, unit tests, state management) | Advanced |
| GitLab CI/CD (pipeline testing, matrix jobs, artefacts) | Advanced |
| AWS data services (S3, IAM, Glue, Lake Formation, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Lambda) | Intermediate–Advanced |
| Security scanning tools (Checkov, tfsec) | Intermediate |
| Data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, Apache Iceberg) | Intermediate |
| Python (test automation, pipeline utilities) | Intermediate |
| SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, chaos engineering, performance testing) | Intermediate |
| Compliance testing (encryption, tagging, data residency) | Intermediate |
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## Required Experience
- **3–5+ years** in software testing, QA engineering, or platform engineering with a quality focus
- **2+ years** testing cloud infrastructure and IaC (AWS + Terraform or CloudFormation)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline testing (GitLab CI or equivalent)
- Familiarity with data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, or AWS Glue)
- Python scripting for test automation and utilities
- Experience with compliance and governance requirements in regulated industries
**Preferred:**
- AWS certification (any level)
- Experience in financial services or regulated environments
- Familiarity with SRE practices (error budgets, blameless postmortems)
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field