GOC - Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities

• Test Design & Execution: Develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for custom services, data stores, and data processing pipelines to ensure functional correctness, data integrity, and performance.
• Automation: Contribute to the development, and maintenance of automated tests (e.g., API and data validation) within our existing frameworks, integrating them into our CI/CD pipelines.
• Data Quality Assurance: Implement and maintain automated systems for result consistency checks, performing thorough data validation and reconciliation to ensure the accuracy and reliability of our Open Intelligence data assets.
• Defect Management: Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects using appropriate tools, working closely with engineering and product teams to ensure timely resolution and re-testing.
• Quality Advocacy: Contribute to identifying and addressing technical debt related to testability and quality within our data platform, advocating for quality best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaboration: Support our regional and services teams by ensuring that best practices for testing data pipelines and services are followed and actively participate in code reviews for test automation.
• Reporting: Design and contribute to systems for cross-region quality monitoring and reporting, ensuring transparency on the quality status for our Product organization.

Requirements

• If this opportunity looks right for you, we are looking for candidates who have:
• 2-4 years of hands-on experience in Quality Assurance or Software Testing roles, ideally within data-intensive and cloud-native environments.
• QA Fundamentals: Strong understanding of software QA methodologies and tools.
• Automation Skills: Proven experience in developing and maintaining automated tests using at least one modern test automation framework (e.g., Playwright) and a scripting or programming language (e.g., Python).
• API Testing: Hands-on experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman) and understanding of RESTful APIs.
• SQL/Spark Proficiency: Strong ability to write and execute complex SQL queries or Spark jobs for data validation, data integrity checks, and backend testing.
• Cloud Understanding (GCP preferred): Basic understanding

Benefits

Additional Information

About WPP Media WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships - all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open - we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit wppmedia.com . Role Summary and Impact As part of the Global Operations Centre (GOC) , you will work closely with teams across the United States, Europe, and Asia to deliver high-impact solutions in a collaborative, multicultural environment. We're looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team, focusing on our Open Intelligence data initiative. While our team builds and maintains an enterprise-grade production system for this initiative, your critical role will be to ensure the quality, reliability, and accuracy of our data, services, and platforms. You'll play a key role in enabling WPP Media to leverage its data assets with confidence, ensuring they are correct, consistent, and available across the business. This role requires diligence, independence, technical savviness, and strong communication skills. It requires an understanding of brand, adtech, and marketing data, as well as the enterprise context. This is a hands-on technical role for an enterprising individual, who can balance contributing to long-term quality improvement initiatives with immediate attention to validating new features and addressing incidents. It also requires good communication skills, as you will be collaborating with and providing quality insights to engineers and product stakeholders across the globe. You will also collaborate closely with our product division to ensure transparency on the quality status to the business side. You are: A leader who empowers teams, removing impediments and fostering an environment of collaboration and psychological safety. An expert facilitator, skilled at guiding teams through Agile ceremonies and discussions to achieve clear outcomes. A strong communicator and coach, adept at nurturing Agile mindsets and practices across individuals and the organization. Proactive and adaptable, able to anticipate challenges, resolve conflicts, and guide teams through change. Passionate about continuous improvement, always seeking ways to optimize team performance and delivery predictability.

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