Lead QA Engineer, Data Platform

The Core AI BI & Data Platforms Team has been established to create, operate and run the Enterprise AI, BI and Data that facilitate the time to market for reporting, analytics and data science teams to run experiments, train models and generate insights as well as evolve and run the CoCounsel application and its shared capability of CoCounsel AI Assistant.
The Enterprise Data Platform aims to provide self service capabilities for fast and secure ingestion and consumption of data across Thomson Reuters. The Data Platform team in Bangalore is seeking an experienced Senior DBA with a passion for engineering cloud-based data platform systems.
Join our dynamic team as a Senior Snowflake Database Administrator (DBA) to oversee and enhance the data infrastructure on our Enterprise Data Platform. In this role, you will leverage your Snowflake expertise to ensure the performance, scalability, and security of our data solutions. You will collaborate with data engineers, architects, and business teams to maintain data integrity, optimize storage and compute resources, and support our growing data-driven initiatives.

In this opportunity as the Lead QA Engineer, you will:                       

• Lead and oversee QA processes for data ingestion, processing, and integration workflows on a large-scale, high-performance data platform.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, focusing on data quality and platform stability, leveraging AWS services and Snowflake databases.
• Design and implement test automation frameworks and scripts in Python to streamline testing processes for complex data workflows.
• Collaborate closely with data engineers, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to align on data quality standards and test requirements.
• Monitor and improve CI/CD pipelines, optimizing quality assurance steps and enhancing automation for rapid and reliable releases.
• Build reusable testing utilities for validating large-scale data operations, ensuring consistency across environments and deployments.
• Mentor and guide QA team members, ensuring adherence to best practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

You're a fit for the role of Lead QA Engineer, if you meet all or most of these criteria:

• 9+ years of experience in Quality Assurance with a focus on data engineering, data warehousing, or cloud-based data platforms.
• Proficiency in AWS services (e.g., S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Glue) with hands-on experience in deploying and testing data solutions on the cloud.
• Proficient in the pytest framework, with strong Python scripting skills for test automation, data validation, and workflow orchestration.
• Experience with Snowflake (or other cloud data warehouses), including data migration, ETL, and data quality validation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an analytical mindset, with the ability to dive deep into complex data flows and identify potential issues.
• Leadership experience in QA, with proven abilities in coaching, mentoring, and leading a team of QA engineers.

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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