Job Description

Talan – Positive Innovation

Talan is an international consulting group specializing in innovation and business transformation through technology. With over 7,200 consultants in 21 countries and a turnover of €850M, we are committed to delivering impactful, future-ready solutions.

Talan at a Glance

Headquartered in Paris and operating globally, Talan combines technology, innovation, and empowerment to deliver measurable results for our clients. Over the past 22 years, we’ve built a strong presence in the IT and consulting landscape, and we’re on track to reach €1 billion in revenue this year.

Our Core Areas of Expertise

• Data & Technologies: We design and implement large-scale, end-to-end architecture and data solutions, including data integration, data science, visualization, Big Data, AI, and Generative AI.
• Cloud & Application Services: We integrate leading platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, and IBM Maximo, helping clients transition to the cloud and improve operational efficiency.
• Management & Innovation Consulting: We lead business and digital transformation initiatives through project and change management best practices (PM, PMO, Agile, Scrum, Product Ownership), and support domains such as Supply Chain, Cybersecurity, and ESG/Low-Carbon strategies.

We work with major global clients across diverse sectors, including Transport & Logistics, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Retail, and Media & Telecommunications.

We are looking for a Senior Test Engineer to join a data and analytics project involving modern data platforms, ETL processes and reporting solutions. The role is focused on v alidating data flows across architecture layers, ensuring data quality, testing exception scenarios and confirming the accuracy of calculations, aggregations and presentation layers.

This is a strong opportunity for a testing professional with solid experience in data environments, especially those familiar with medallion architecture, ETL validation and business-facing analytics solutions.

The position can be performed remotely from Spain

What you will do:

• Design and execute test strategies for data pipelines and analytics solutions.
• Validate data flows across medallion architecture layers, such as bronze, silver and gold.
• Test ETL processes, including data quality rules, exception handling, defaulting logic and transformation accuracy.
• Verify data consistency, completeness and integrity across source and target systems.
• Validate self-service analytics outputs, including presentation logic, calculations, filters and aggregations.
• Test reporting solutions to ensure accuracy, usability and alignment with business requirements.
• Identify, document and follow up on defects, inconsistencies and data issues.
• Collaborate with data engineers, business analysts, developers and stakeholders to clarify requirements and expected results.
• Contribute senior testing criteria, risk-based thinking and quality recommendations throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required:

• Senior-level experience as a Test Engineer, QA Engineer or Data Test Analyst in complex data environments.
• Hands-on experience testing medallion architecture or layered data architectures.
• Strong experience validating ETL processes
• Solid understanding of data quality testing, including completeness, accuracy, duplication, reconciliation and consistency checks.
• Experience testing exception scenarios, defaulting rules and edge cases in data pipelines.
• Experience validating self-service analytics solutions, including calculations, aggregations, data presentation and report outputs.
• Ability to work autonomously
• Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail.
• Good communication skills to interact with both technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Experience in banking, financial services or highly regulated environments.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms or modern data lakehouse approaches.
• Knowledge of SQL for data validation and reconciliation.
• Experience with BI or reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or similar.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams.
• Previous exposure to automated data testing frameworks or test management tools.

Additional Information

What do we offer you?

• Full-time contract
• Remote within Spain Time zone.
• Training and career development.
• Benefits and perks such as private medical insurance, life insurance, Language lessons, etc
• Possibility to be part of a multicultural team and work on international projects.

If you are passionate about data, development & tech, we want to meet you !