Senior Test Engineer

at  Bank of Ireland

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

Join our Data Engineering team in this exciting time as we implement Bank of Ireland’s new cloud based data lake, take advantage of AI opportunities and transition workloads to that new Enterprise Data Lake platform.
As Senior Test Engineer, you will be responsible for the technical leadership, hands on engineering and mentoring of Test engineers within our Data Engineering function.
We work in a very collaborative environment with a learning culture and you will use your experience to help guide future development across the team, the tools we use, help drive automation and introduce new and exciting engineering patterns and frameworks!

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT

We are seeking a leader with enthusiasm and a growth mentality who prioritises collaboration with others. You are proactive to achieve the necessary outcome while improving processes, people and tooling along the way.
You have a proven track record (7+ years) as Test Engineer in the Data Lake or Data Warehouse domain. You have deep technical knowledge of Data Lake, Cloud Technologies and Architecture, preferably AWS.

Further technical knowledge and/or experience in the below are necessary to apply:

• Testing complex Data Pipelines and Data flows
• Agile Testing practices and guidelines, including Defect Management
• Test automation using tools and frameworks (e.g Selenium, Junit etc)
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, Pyspark
• Experienced in CI/CD, DevOps best practices
• Various database technologies (Teradata, Oracle Big data/Hadoop)
• Testing event driven systems with tools like Kafka, NiFi, Flink, Spark Streaming
• Ability to define and recommend right sized Test data and automate test data creation/refresh
• Familiarity with AI concepts and willingness to explore LLM’s, Generative AI and Machine Learning

Experience with any of the following will help you to stand out but is not necessary in order to apply for this role;

• Understanding of REST APIs and Testing
• Cloudera Data Platform and appropriate Cloudera certifications
• The ability to derive and share Data-Driven insights with Business and Technical teams
• The ability of identifying and introducing process optimisations

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to other Test engineers
• Take the lead in enabling the Testing of complex data flows and processes bringing to bear our Enterprise Data Warehouse & Data Lake
• Make decisions on Test frameworks, tooling and patterns
• Advocate and drive Test Automation and the adoption of processes such as BDD/TDD
• Solve complex technical problems and provide creative solutions from your experience or through a rational problem solving process.
• Drive evolution and adoption of Test standards and processes across Platforms and Teams

Experience with any of the following will help you to stand out but is not necessary in order to apply for this role;

• Understanding of REST APIs and Testing
• Cloudera Data Platform and appropriate Cloudera certifications
• The ability to derive and share Data-Driven insights with Business and Technical teams
• The ability of identifying and introducing process optimisation