Test Manager - Data Platform

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Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Test Manager to lead end-to-end quality assurance for enterprise ETL and data platform initiatives. The role will own the testing strategy, governance, delivery, and continuous improvement of data validation across modern cloud and legacy ecosystems. The successful candidate will combine strong technical knowledge of data pipelines with proven leadership, stakeholder management, and delivery assurance capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement the overall test strategy, test plan, governance model, and quality standards for ETL and data platform programs.
• Lead functional, integration, regression, system, performance, reconciliation, and user acceptance testing across the data lifecycle.
• Manage test estimation, resource planning, scheduling, execution, defect management, reporting, and release-readiness assessments.
• Ensure source-to-target validation, transformation-rule verification, data completeness, accuracy, integrity, lineage, and reconciliation.
• Coordinate testing across Amazon Redshift, Fivetran, Databricks, dbt, SAS, and Oracle environments.
• Partner with data engineering, architecture, product, business, operations, and release teams to clarify requirements and mitigate quality risks.
• Establish traceability between requirements, data mappings, test scenarios, test cases, defects, and business outcomes.
• Drive test automation and reusable validation frameworks for pipelines, transformations, and data-quality controls.
• Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, risk escalation, and resolution tracking with technical and business stakeholders.
• Provide clear quality dashboards and executive-level reporting on progress, coverage, defect trends, risks, dependencies, and release recommendations.
• Coach test leads and engineers, promote engineering best practices, and build a high-performing quality culture.

Required Technical Expertise

• ETL and data testing: Strong experience validating batch and incremental pipelines, complex transformations, dimensional models, data warehouses, and analytics datasets.
• Amazon Redshift: Proficiency in SQL-based validation, warehouse testing, performance considerations, and reconciliation of large datasets.
• Fivetran: Experience testing managed connectors, schema replication, incremental loads, synchronization behaviour, and source-to-destination completeness.
• Databricks: Hands-on knowledge of Lakehouse testing, notebooks, Spark-based processing, Delta tables, medallion architecture, and pipeline validation.
• Dbt: Experience validating models, dependencies, tests, documentation, snapshots, incremental strategies, and deployment workflows.
• Niche platforms: Working knowledge of SAS and Oracle, including migration, coexistence, reconciliation, and modernization scenarios.
• SQL and data analysis: Advanced SQL skills with the ability to investigate complex data issues and validate high-volume datasets.
• Automation and delivery: Familiarity with automated data-testing approaches, version control, CI/CD, test management, and defect-tracking tools.

Leadership & Delivery Skills

• Proven ability to lead distributed and cross-functional testing teams across concurrent workstreams.
• Strong planning, prioritization, governance, risk management, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including concise reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business rules and data mappings into risk-based test coverage.
• Strong analytical mindset with disciplined problem-solving and attention to detail.
• Comfort working in Agile, iterative, and hybrid delivery environments.

Qualifications & Experience

• Substantial experience in software quality assurance, including significant leadership responsibility in ETL, data warehouse, data lake, or analytics testing.
• Demonstrated ownership of testing for complex, multi-system data programs from planning through production release.
• Experience managing third-party partners, delivery dependencies, and senior stakeholder expectations is desirable.

Benefits

Joining Cognizant will give you the opportunity to learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry, while having your finger on the pulse of emerging industry trends and working on the cutting edge of technology in your field of expertise.

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• You can pursue innovative career tracks and opportunities here
• You can enhance your professional development through education and dedicated training
• We’ll give you the skills you need to keep pace with the changing workplace while our compensation, benefits and wellness packages help you stay healthy and plan for the future.

Next Steps

Please reach out to our friendly and welcoming team today to apply and register your interest in this full-time role. We'd love to help you get your next role and enable you to fulfil your professional ambitions.