Test Lead / Senior Test Automation Engineer

Test Lead / Senior Test Automation Engineer

Company:

Boeing Poland sp. z o.o. EFS

Overview
Boeing Global Services is seeking a Test Lead / Senior Test Automation Engineer to own test strategy, execution, and quality governance for the Boeing Translation Engine (BTE) — a critical, large-scale big‑data platform that supports AHM, Insights Accelerator, and Safety Data Analytics. This senior role requires production-quality code, deep data engineering expertise, and demonstrated leadership driving quality practices across multiple teams and releases.

Job Details:

• Candidates are expected to work from our office in Gdansk for at least 3 days a week.

• Please submit a CV or resume written in English

• Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

• Relocation: This position does not offers relocation based on candidate eligibility

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own cross-team test architecture and frameworks for ETL/ELT, Databricks/Spark, APIs, and UIs that scale across multiple product teams and environments

• Design and implement comprehensive data validation and data-quality strategies for large-scale telemetry processing (schema validation, row counts, statistical checks, delta comparisons, anomaly detection, drift detection)

• Architect and enforce CI/CD-integrated automated testing pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions) supporting pre-deploy gating, contract testing, canary verification, and regression protection

• Lead synthetic test data generation strategies and robust mocking/stubbing approaches for downstream dependencies; ensure environment-aware and secure test harnesses for sensitive telemetry

• Drive performance, scalability, and distributed load testing for Spark jobs and supporting microservices; quantify bottlenecks and propose system- and code-level remediation

• Collaborate with data engineering, platform, DevOps, and product leadership to define acceptance criteria, release quality gates, and automated verification SLAs

• Implement and maintain observability for test executions; publish automation health metrics (pass rates, flakiness, coverage, mean time to detection) and maintain executive-facing dashboards

• Own test documentation, runbooks, failure triage playbooks, and on-call handover for production incidents related to data correctness and test infrastructure

• Lead and grow a high-performing QA/test automation capability — hire, coach, establish standards, and promote best practices organization-wide

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science

• 8+ years of professional software engineering and testing experience, including technical ownership of QA/test practices across the SDLC

• 3+ years leading or mentoring engineering/QA teams in technical areas (Test Lead, Principal QA Engineer, or similar)

• Deep knowledge of data engineering and lakehouse patterns: partitioning strategies, ACID/Delta semantics, schema evolution, delta table optimization, CDC, time-travel, and data lineage; able to design verification approaches for Databricks/Spark/Delta Lake systems

• Proven experience architecting and building scalable automated test frameworks and embedding them into enterprise CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

• Strong software engineering skills with extensive coding experience in Python, Java, or Scala for test development and automation; ability to review and contribute production-grade code

• Extensive experience testing data pipelines and big-data processing (Databricks, Spark/PySpark, Delta Lake, ADLS Gen2) or equivalent streaming/batch platforms at scale

• Solid familiarity with API testing (REST/gRPC), contract testing (e.g., Pact), and modern UI automation approaches (Selenium, Playwright)

• Experience designing test data generation, advanced mocking/stubbing frameworks, secure test environments, and containerized orchestration for testing (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Demonstrated ability to profile, debug, and triage distributed systems and large-scale data processing jobs

• Exiting rights to work in Poland

• English: C1 (fluent) - must be comfortable working and communicating in English on a daily basis in an international engineering environment; English is the primary language for all technical communication

Preferred Qualifications (Desired