WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
Why we're hiring:
WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey, and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands.
What you'll be doing:
- Test legacy and new test cases with the use of formal test cases or scripts. Execute smoke, regression, and functional tests
- Interpret test cases and compare them to established specifications
- Be able to go beyond the specification and anticipate problem areas in the product design and document test cases results and compare to expected results
- Analyzing Business Requirements, assessing the quality of these to ensure they are Cohesive, Comprehensive, Concise, Clear and Correct, and assures the work of others to ensure conformance to standards.
- Work closely with team members on requirement analysis and reviews to ensure 100% test coverage
- Participate in various scrum meetings to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, estimates or potential problems
- Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, or to mitigate risks
- Defect and issue identification, logging, tracking, reporting and timely verification of resolved items
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team including Development, QA, Implementation, Documentation, Support and Sales
- Support the product through its full life cycle of design, code, test, and maintenance
- Assist in assessing product quality and release readiness
What you'll need:
- Education: completed university studies in Computer Science, Information Technology or comparable
- Personality and Working Practice: team player, good communication skills, analytical thinking and structured, keen eye on detail
- Experience and Knowledge:
- 3 to 5 years’ experience in software testing a clear interest in developing skills within the QA field including experience in the Agile / Scrum development lifecycle
- Experience in writing, testing, and executing SQL queries
- Experience in comprehensive testing on data solutions and bespoke applications
- Strong understanding of acceptance testing, test case development, execution of test procedures
- Experience executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies including waterfall and agile
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and an ability to work with technical and non-technical staff. Strong analytical and conceptual skills, with a curious mind for investigating and breaking software.
- Detail-orientation with the ability to understand how each aspect interacts with the big picture.
- A solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and programming fundamentals. You do not need to be able to program our systems, but a working knowledge will help you excel in this role.
- Proven perseverance to carry a set of software deliverables from requirements to testing completion.
- Ability to write clear, concise, unambiguous, and accurate requirements
- Experience executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies including waterfall and agile
- Ability to write clear, concise, unambiguous, and accurate requirements
- Experience in logging bugs in Azure DevOps or any other tools as hands-on
- Experience on different types of testing that includes Black Box testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, System Integration testing, End-to-End Testing, Regression testing & User Acceptance testing (UAT) & Involved in Load Testing, Performance Testing & Stress Testing.
- Media / advertising industry experience is a plus
- Languages: very good English skills, any other language is a plus
Who you are:
You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
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WPP is a creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities.
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