Senior Test & Data Quality Engineer (Azure Databricks)

Project overview

For our client, an insurance company in the greater Frankfurt am Main area, we are looking for an experienced Test & Data Quality Engineer as part of the setup of a new dispositional data platform (Lakehouse) based on Microsoft Azure and Databricks. You will be responsible for test strategy, technical tests, and data validation until go-live, ensuring that the data on the new platform is reliable and aligned.

Responsibilities

• Creation of test concept, technical test strategy, and test plan, as well as contribution to measurable acceptance criteria
• Execution of technical tests of data pipelines, data validation, and reconciliation between source and target systems
• Testing of the initial load as well as creation of check and reconciliation reports
• Co-building the data quality framework: rules, test routines, monitoring, and quality reports
• Automation of data and regression tests
• Support for business departments in UAT preparation, execution, and defect management
• Contribution to go-live release, hypercare, and bug fixing

Requirements

General Framework Conditions

• Several years of experience in testing and quality assurance of data warehouse or lakehouse projects
• Very good SQL skills, PySpark and Databricks are an advantage
• Experience with test automation for data pipelines (e.g., pytest, Great Expectations, Databricks tests)
• Experience with data quality rules, reconciliation, and acceptance processes
• Experience in the insurance sector is an advantage
• Structured, thorough way of working and strong communication skills with business departments
• Certification (e.g., ISTQB) is an advantage
• Fluent German and good English skills
• Workload: 50–80 %
• Start: 02.11.2026
• Duration: until 31.03.2027 with option for extension (follow-up phases planned until end of 2028)
• Work location: Greater Frankfurt am Main area (Germany)
• Onsite/Remote: High onsite component in the first 2–3 months (3–4 days per week), thereafter approx. 2 days onsite, rest remote
• Client interview: Availability for an interview with the client on 22 or 28.10.2026

Project details

• Start: 2026-11
• Duration: 6 Monate
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Frankfurt, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German