Lead Quality Engineer (Data)
Kingfisher plc3 days ago
Kraków, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive Quality Engineering strategy, standards, and best practices across data platforms, pipelines, and products.
- Lead the design and development of automated and manual test solutions for data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reliability.
- Investigate complex quality issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive preventative actions and continuous improvement.
- Partner with engineering and product stakeholders to define quality requirements, identify risks, and establish testing approaches.
- Lead testing across data integration, ETL/ELT processes, and data transformations.
- Drive test automation and continuous testing, including integration with CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and support development of Quality Engineering capability.
- Evaluate AI applications, tools, technologies, and practices that can improve Quality Engineering outcomes.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in Quality Engineering, ideally within Data Engineering, Big Data, or complex data platform environments.
- Strong expertise in Quality Engineering principles, test strategy, automation, and modern quality assurance practices.
- Proven experience defining and driving test strategies, standards, and best practices across teams.
- Advanced SQL skills for validating complex datasets, data transformations, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, PySpark, Databricks, and distributed data processing solutions.
- Experience designing and evolving automated test frameworks and integrating continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Good understanding of cloud-based data platforms, data quality principles, and modern software engineering practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience providing technical guidance, mentoring engineers, and supporting Quality Engineering capability development.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Benefits
- 23,000 - 30,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract.
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED, including dental care, for the employee and family.
- Medicover sports card, employer-financed life insurance, and wellbeing programme.
- Hybrid working with a blend of home and office work in Kraków.
- 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day.
- Training and Buddy programme, professional development opportunities, language and accounting courses, LinkedIn Learning, and possible study and certification co-financing.
- Co-financing of monthly public transport tickets in Kraków, employee referral programme, and a comfortable office environment.
About Kingfisher plc
Kingfisher plc is a public home improvement retailer that sells DIY, building, and trade supplies to consumers and professionals across Europe. It operates more than 2,000 stores and e-commerce channels under banners including B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Dépôt, TradePoint, and Koçtaş. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in London, it earns revenue from retail sales and related services in eight countries, including the UK, France, Poland, Spain, and Turkey.