QA Tester

**WPP** is the 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 109,000 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, 317 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 8th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.**

**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 109,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its 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.**

**WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.**

**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.**

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**Why we're hiring**:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT's mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP's petabytes of data.

GroupM is the world's leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through agencies Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the outcomes-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis and data and technology company Choreograph. GroupM's portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment and Services, all united in a vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business.

The GroupM IT team in WPP IT are the technology solutions partner for the GroupM group of agencies and are accountable for co-ordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life-cycle and innovation pipeline.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Responsible for planning, deployment and managing the quality assurance and testing for the Kinetic Platform
- Develop and establish quality assurance deliverables and testing framework, including creating and maintaining test plans and test cases in accordance with changing requirements, throughout the development of the Application Software.
- Create and manage the automated test framework (where applicable) such as preparing the test environment and maintaining functional testing scripts in accordance with the changing requirements.
- Work with the deployment team on setting up continuous integration, build and release automation
- Work with the development team (i.e. the business analysts and testers) for user stories elaboration, test automation, bug fixes, etc.
- Ensure defects are tracked in the product backlog, and conduct impact analysis of defect fixes discovered during manual or automated tests, validate completed stories pass the acceptance criteria, raising defects as needed and work with the development team to improve the expected behavior and test cases.
- Ensure that only the tested stories are demonstrated during the Sprint review(s)

**What you'll need**:

- 4-5 years in the capacity of a QA Lead
- Excellence analytical skills.
- Experience automated testing tools is a plus.
- In depth understanding of development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.).
- Working with 1 or more agile development teams.
- Familiar with Agile tools (e.g. JIRA/Azure Devops).
- Continuous QA process improvement.

**Who you are**:
**You're open**_:_** **We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse vi