Senior Data Engineer - QA Automation

LawVu is transforming the legal industry by providing the world’s leading and most loved platform for in-house legal teams. 

LawVu is a fast growing New Zealand software company with customers and employees around the globe, including in New Zealand, United States, Australia and Europe. Our legal workspace is a category creating software platform that is designed specifically for in-house legal teams. We’re backed by leading venture capital firms, including Insight Partners and Airtree Ventures. 

Are you ready to work on a product that is revolutionizing the legal industry? Look no further! LawVu is on the hunt for a Senior Data Engineer with QA Automation expertise to architect and implement comprehensive testing strategies across our data ecosystem.

Our Data & Analytics team plays a key role in helping legal teams make informed decisions with robust reporting, analytics, and data visualization. As we expand our data infrastructure, we're investing heavily in automation and quality assurance to ensure robust and accurate data delivery to our users. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape our data testing frameworks, working with modern cloud technologies and implementing best practices that will directly impact decision-making for legal teams worldwide.

Reports to:

This role reports to the Director of Engineering - Data & AI

Location

Auckland, Tauranga or Wellington

What you’ll do…

• Be Awesome: Seriously, just be your awesome self.
• Data Pipeline Testing: Design and implement automated tests for ETL processes, data transformations, and data integration pipelines
• Champion Data Quality: Advocate for data testing best practices, ensuring that our data systems are robust, reliable, and accurate to meet the highest standards of data integrity.
• Test Automation Architecture: Design scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks for data platforms systems
• Analytics Quality Assurance: Develop tests to validate dashboard visualizations, metrics calculations, and report generation
• Performance Testing: Create tests for query performance, data load times, and system scalability
• CI/CD Integration: Implement automated testing within our CI/CD pipelines for continuous data quality validation
• Collaborate: Work closely with data engineers, analytics engineers and the wider product engineering team to understand data workflows, test scenarios, and develop automated tests that validate both the structure and the integrity of data.
• Review: Participate in peer reviews of pull requests and code changes, focusing on testing strategies, data quality, and the overall reliability of data systems.
• Mentor Extraordinaire: Help guide junior team members, actively participate in planning, automation prioritization, daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Elevate: Share knowledge, promote best practices, and help grow the expertise of your peers in the realms of automated data testing, analytics validation, and quality assurance
• Inspire: Inspire confidence in QA activities and lead change and improvements.

What you’ll need…

Product Mindset:

• Self-Starter: Take initiative and drive projects forward with minimal supervision.
• Proactive: Anticipate challenges and address them before they become problems.
• Problem Solver: Tackle complex issues with creativity and determination.
• Resilient: Bounce back from setbacks and keep pushing forward.
• Customer-Centric: Always keep the end-user in mind and strive to meet their needs.
• Design-First: Prioritize design and usability in every feature you work on.
• Value-Driven: Focus on delivering features that provide real value to our users.
• Team Player: Collaborate, innovate, and celebrate wins as a team!

Must-have Skills: 

• Data Testing Expertise (5+ years):
• • Automated validation of ETL processes and data transformations
  • Experience with data comparison and validation techniques and query performance testing
  • Proficiency in testing end-to-end data pipeline architectures
• Programming & Automation (4+ years):
• • Strong SQL and Python experience
  • Experience with testing frameworks like PyTest, Playwright, or BDD frameworks
  • Knowledge of database testing techniques
• Data Platforms & Tools:
• • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
  • Experience testing cloud data platforms (Databricks preferred)
  • Familiarity with data visualization tools (Power BI preferred)
• Source Control & CI/CD:
• • Git proficiency
  • Experience with automated testing in CI/CD environments
• Delivery and Communication:
• • Be a self-starter, have a positive, resilient, can-do attitude, and embrace challenges
  • Experience working in an Agile project delivery environment and frequent releases
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Experience in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions (pipeline development)
• Azure Infra-as-Code experience (ARM, bicep)
• Experience in the legal sector
• Recognised test certification is valued (e.g. ISEB, ISTQB)
• Experience in software testing (web API and UI)

Perks of being a LawVu-er:

• Monthly wellness allowance for gym memberships, massages, childcare – you name it!
• Health insurance cover.
• Extended paid parental leave.
• Extra paid day off on your birthday (cake not included, but highly encouraged).
• Share options – because you deserve a piece of the pie.
• Home office allowance for remote employees.

Why LawVu?

At LawVu, we believe in flexible working arrangements that let you balance work, life, and your passions. Join us early in our growth journey and participate in our success through our incentive scheme. Our collaborative and inclusive culture is something we’re immensely proud of. From day one, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are:

Inspire and Delight

We take pride in what we do and go the extra mile to create experiences that inspire and delight our customers.

Move Swiftly

We do what we say we will do, moving fast to get the right things done to make an impact.

Dig Deeper

No challenge is too big. With courage we embrace the challenge, learn from our mistakes and share the knowledge

Take Ownership

With every decision and behaviour, however big or small, we take ownership of it's impact on our business.

Back yourself. Back others

We strive to be supportive, honest people who respect each other and build a high level of trust to perform as a winning team.

Bring your Woo

Woo is what energises us, brings us joy and makes us unique.  We seek to create a safe environment that fosters bringing your whole self so you can thrive.

We are constantly working towards making LawVu one of the best places to work, for everyone. LawVu is committed to providing equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion. We will ensure this by fostering a workplace where people feel safe to be themselves, are able to do the best work of their lives and fulfil their potential. We believe by bringing together our diversity of thoughts and backgrounds, we will develop a world class product for the equally diverse customers we serve.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. If you would like to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.