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We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.
Kantar is undergoing the largest Tech transformation our $7.5bn business has seen, allowing us to become a leading global Data / Analytics powerhouse, suppling giants such as Google and Unilever with innovative insights into the behaviour of their customers.
Since being acquired by Bain Capital in December 2019 we have been mapping out how to realise this vision, by expanding, upgrading, and evolving our Tech Platforms and Infrastructure. We are Cloud Native (Azure) and are modernising and integrating all our tech stacks to allow us to provide a swifter and more automated response to our client’s needs.
For this we need some of the best minds in Tech and DevOps to help us solve problems for the long term, with the freedom to take measured risk with innovative solutions. From the top down, our global tech community is truly collaborative and supportive, with excellent training resources to ensure you are coached and guided to improve your skills, so you continue to grow as we do.
Job Description
Kantar is a global leader in data, insights, and consulting. We have deep knowledge of people's thoughts, emotions, shopping habits, social media activity, voting patterns, and media consumption. Our Insights team specializes in understanding human behaviour. They offer expertise in brand strategy, innovation, creative development, media planning, e-commerce, and customer experience. They assist clients in defining brand values, driving disruption and renewal, engaging audiences, and winning over consumers and customers.
KAP is a platform that automates market research, from the beginning to the final deliverables. Equivalent experience is acceptable in place of educational requirements.
Join our rapidly growing Kantar Automation Platform development team as a Lead QA Engineer. We are a large Agile team with multiple squads dedicated to delivering outstanding results every sprint to support the platform's growth. The Lead QA Engineer role is crucial in maintaining our quality standards and actively contributing to our teams' success by encouraging a culture of continuous testing and delivery. Your expertise will play a vital role in shaping our development process and ensuring the excellence we aim for.
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 the Kantar Automation Platform 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
UI and/or Backend Test Automation execution.
Add new tests and expand the automation test suite.
Crafting automation testing artifacts including test estimates, test execution reports, etc.
Execution and monitoring of test automation scripts.
Perform regression testing to verify new features.
Analysis and troubleshooting of automation script failures.
Improve QA processes, tools, and methodologies.
Ensure framework completes daily tasks in a CI environment.
Foster transparent communication within the team.
Key Capabilities
This role will suit someone who is a Technical QA Lead with experience defining test strategies and developing teams of at least 5 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
Essential 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 Selenium, 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.
Desirable experience
Some experience with coding in languages like C#, .Net, or Java technologies.
Background using Playwright, Cypress, or SpecFlow is ideal.
Essential skills
Solid knowledge in previous roles of the testing of applications, microservice architectures, API services, and databases.
Knowledge of testing technologies and latest practices in the field.
Familiarity and understanding of testing concepts and different testing techniques.
Understanding of concepts of Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration, git, branching strategies, and equivalent experience in DevOps.
Excellent communication in English, both verbal and written.
Desirable skills
Experience with Performance and Load testing using JMeter or Lighthouse
Knowledge of other UI automation frameworks like Playwright and Cypress.
Personal skills
Great interpersonal and communication skills to be part of a team that is spread over multiple locations.
Quick learner and able to readily adapt to project needs.
Excellent experience in interpreting testing requirements.
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making abilities.
Ability to handle conflict, difficult situations, and to influence others to your opinions.
Must have a positive “can-do” attitude.
Must be able to accept and give constructive feedback.
Happy to get hands dirty when problems arise.
Able to work with limited supervision.
Educational requirements
BS in Computer Science or any IT degree [nice to have], or equivalent experience.
ISTQB® Certified [nice to have].
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.
Location
Bangalore, Prestige Technology ParkIndiaKantar Rewards Statement
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.
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