Lead QA Engineer

Role Overview

We are hiring a QA Lead that will put in place initiatives to refine and optimize our QA procedures, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to implement standard processes. Your expertise will serve as the cornerstone for designing and implementing comprehensive test strategies, ensuring that each feature and aspect of our Operational Systems applications meets and exceeds user expectations.

The selected candidate will play a vital role in the early stages of the development lifecycle, identifying potential risks and bottlenecks and proposing innovative solutions!

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement QA strategies aligned with project objectives.
• Lead small team of QA engineers
• Support and lead the optimization of QA processes, implementing standard methodologies.
• Lead automation efforts for efficient and detailed test coverage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate QA practices.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks in the development cycle.
• Lead defect tracking, reporting, and resolution processes.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to the QA Team.
• Generate comprehensive test reports for stakeholders.
• Advocate for quality standards and practices within the KAP organization, presenting testing progress to the Leadership Team.
• Evaluate and implement new testing tools and technologies, to continuously improve QA processes based on industry trends.

Key Capabilities

This role will suit someone who is a Technical QA Lead with experience defining test strategies and developing teams of at least 3 testers. Someone that would like to evolve to the next level in their testing career including automation and performance testing will also find this opportunity exciting!

You will be deeply involved in the definition of the UI and backend automation work, so having experience in this area is crucial for the role. In addition to this, the QA Lead will be accountable for planning and supervising the work of the manual integration testers in the squads.

Skills & Experience

• +10 years’ experience in testing including automation ‘hands-on’ for UI and/or backend and working as a QA and Testing Lead.
• Hands on experience of planning, coordinating, and performing testing activities along the complete development life cycle in an agile environment.
• Experience defining automation test strategy and framework.
• Reporting testing status and assessing high risk situations that could compromise delivery deadlines and quality.
• Experience mentoring developers and testers in QA practices.
• Nice to have: Bs in Computer Science or any IT degree and ISTQB® Certification.
• Shown experience testing Applications, microservice architectures, API services, and databases.
• Broad knowledge of Testing technologies and latest practices in the field.
• Experience with different automation tooling like Playwright, Cypress, Specflow or any tool used for service automation.
• Understanding concepts of Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration, git, branching strategies and DevOps.
• A leader who can communicate well across all levels within the organization.
• Fluency in English.

Personal skills

We are looking for a candidate that will need to have great interpersonal and communications skills as will be part of an application team that is spread over multiple locations. We are also looking for someone that is a quick learner, able to adapt to project needs, with strong problem-solving skills!

The ability to handle with challenging situations and influence others to the perspective needed, will be also a plus.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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