Software QA Tester

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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What you'll be doing:

As a member of the WPP, IT - GroupM IT team: 

• 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
• Go beyond the specification and anticipate problem areas in the product design and document test cases results and compare to expected results
• Analyse 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

** Working hours: 1:30pm - 9:30pm (IST) - Aligned to UK business hours 

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
• Experience and Knowledge:
  • 1 years’ experience in software testing a clear interest in developing skills within the QA field including experience in the Agile / Scrum development lifecycle
  • 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 - other language are 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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