Key Responsibilities
1.ETL & Talend Job Validation
- Validate Talend ETL jobs (batch & incremental loads)
- Verify extraction, transformation, and loading logic
- Validate mapping documents against Talend job design
- Review Talend components (tMap, tJoin, tAggregateRow, tFilterRow, etc.)
- Validate parameterized jobs and context variables
2.Talend Workflow & Job Orchestration Testing
- Validate Talend Job execution flows (parent-child jobs)
- Test pre-job and post-job triggers
- Validate error-handling workflows
- Verifyrestart abilityand failure recovery scenarios
- Validate dependency handling between jobs
3. Talend Job Scheduling Validation
- Validate job schedules via:
- Talend Administration Center (TAC)
- External schedulers (Control-M, Autosys, Cron)
4. Talend Logs & Reports Validation
- Validate:
- Job execution logs
- Error logs
- Rejected record files
- Audit tables
- Verify record counts:
- Source count
- Staging count
- Target count
- Validate ETL reconciliation reports
- Verify alert notifications (email/SNMP triggers)
5. Performance & Volume Testing
- Validate large volume loads
- Measure job runtime vs SLA
- Validate incremental load performance
- Identify bottlenecks in joins and transformations
- Work with ETL developers for optimization
6. Automation & CI/CD
- Develop automated SQL validation scripts
- Build reusable ETL test validation framework
- Integrate Talend job validation in CI/CD pipelines
- Automate reconciliation reporting
7. Source IntegrationTesting (SFTP / API / Email)
- Validate SFTP-based file ingestion (CSV, TXT, JSON, XML)
- Validate REST API-based data ingestion workflows
- Validate email-triggered or attachment-based file processing
- Verify schema validation and error handling
- Strong experience in validating SFTP-based file transfers and REST API-based data ingestion workflows, including payload validation and error handling.
Required Technical Skills
ETL Tools:Strong experience withTalend Data Integration(Open Studio or Enterprise).
Database/SQL:Advanced SQL skills (Oracle, Snowflake, SQL Server, or Redshift). Ability to write scripts to automate record count and checksum comparisons.
Talend Components:Familiarity withtLogCatcher,tStatCatcher,tSendMail, andtRunJob.
Scheduling Tools:Experience with Talend Administration Center (TAC) or external schedulers like Control-M, Airflow, or Autosys.
Soft Skills:Strong analytical mindset to performRoot Cause Analysis (RCA)when a scheduled job fails.
- Automation of data validation using Python scripting.
