Senior QA Engineer

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:

• Design, architect, develop, test, deploy and troubleshoot test infrastructure and test automation suites for our application 

• Design, develop, and maintain automation systems and tools to be used by development and test engineers 

• Build and improve software and tools by translating requirements and problems into robust, scalable, and supportable test solutions.  

• Develop and execute software test plans to identify software problems and their causes 

• 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 

• Develop manual/automated test procedures for software features, database impacts, regression testing and negative testing 

• Design and author test cases for unit, functional, performance, scalability, and durability testing 

• 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 

• Ensure testing commitments are met and clearly communicate potential impacts to schedule to the team 

• Maintain test cases, test plans, and manage them with changing requirements 

• 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 
• Lead and mentor the junior QA team members 

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: 5 to 7+ years of recent experience in the following areas:  

• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills 

• Knowledge of Quality Assurance best practices, with an understanding of what and when to automate. 

• Expertise in QA testing methodology and best practices with proven knowledge the Quality Assurance discipline 

• Experience in writing, testing, and executing SQL queries 

• Experience in comprehensive testing on data solutions and bespoke applications 

• Experience with automating API tests. (Postman, Charles, any other rest-based testing tool) 

• Experience of integrating test automation solutions into CI processes (Azure DevOps) 

• Strong commitment to quality, ability to work closely and communicate effectively with developers and managers. 

• Willing to contribute to manual testing if the need arises. 

• Hands-on experience and strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). 

• Experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies including waterfall and agile 

• 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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