Senior QA Engineer

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Job Details

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer (Automation)

Skale: 60

Location: Bangalore Prestige Tech Park

Line Manager: Technology Quality Director

Job Description

Kantar is a global leader in data insights and consulting. We have deep knowledge of peoples 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 Senior QA Engineer. We are a large Agile team with multiple squads dedicated to delivering outstanding results every sprint to support the platforms growth. The Senior 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

Your expertise as a Senior QA Engineer allows you to showcase your understanding of standard methodologies in QA and your experience in automated testing. In this pivotal role youll play a central part in preserving and improving the quality of our KAP product. Your position will be instrumental in maintaining and improving our product quality. Drawing on your proficiency youll assist in developing software tests through a combination of manual and automated testing methods. Your skills in crafting tests within our established framework will be highly valuable.

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 is perfect for an automation tester with expertise in Playwright Cypress or SpecFlow. If you want to advance your testing career and have a significant impact on the automation and quality of the KAP project this opportunity is for you.

Skills & Experience

Essential experience

• 4 years experience in testing including automation.
• Hands-on experience completing automation testing activities in an agile environment.
• Reporting testing status and assessing high-risk situations that could compromise delivery deadlines and quality.
• Good knowledge of automation techniques in an agile environment.

Desirable experience

• Some experience with coding in languages like JavaScript/TypeScript 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

• Performance and Load testing using JMeter.
• 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. Were 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 youre not an exact match wed love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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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 competitiveand alsoto 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 thats 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 andwell beingis 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 worlds 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 Kantars 30000 people help the worlds leading organisations succeed and grow.