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Kantar’s Profiles division is home to the world’s largest audience network.
With access to 170m+ people in over 100 global markets, we offer unrivalled global reach with local relevancy. Validated by industry leading anti-fraud technology, Kantar’s Profiles Audience Network delivers the most meaningful data with consistency, accuracy, and accountability – all at speed and scale.
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Join our Technology Team as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer!
The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer within the Kantar Profiles Division has a key role in assuring the excellence of technology solutions. Overseeing the sprint teams’ testing strategy, resolving technical issues, and approving product quality control activities for timely software releases.
You play a key role in championing quality and embedding testing best practice right from the start of a project. Collaborating closely with development teams to set and implement quality benchmarks. Your role involves overseeing testing activities, maintaining quality documentation, monitoring KPIs, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Ensuring high quality technology solutions aligned with Kantar Group IT policies, whilst meeting user expectations and contributing to the success of Kantar Profiles.
What you’ll do…
Own the definition and implementation of quality strategy for an agile delivery team. Embedding a ‘shift left’ mindset.
Align testing activities with project milestones. Monitor progress to ensure timely delivery.
Identify and assess potential risks to software quality and project timelines, and develop mitigation strategies.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing processes and methodologies. Analyse metrics and feedback to find opportunities for optimisation.
Develop and implement test plans and cases. Utilise automation for efficiency and to improve coverage. Report and track defects.
Maintain accurate test documentation. Generate reports and metrics to communicate testing status and progress to stakeholders.
Collaborate with teams to align on quality objectives. Actively participate in agile ceremonies to provide testing related inputs, and champion strong quality practices.
Mentor team members and provide guidance on testing best practices, tools, and techniques. Facilitate knowledge sharing and cross-training within the team to build expertise.
What you’ll bring…
- Understanding of and experience with a breadth of testing types and techniques.
- A passion for testing in both an exploratory and automated manner.
- Experience of working in an agile environment.
- A thirst for new testing knowledge, and a desire to share it with your team
- A team player, with strong verbal and written communicator.
- Some experience of mentoring and coaching team members
- Analytical skills and an understanding of business requirements, including an ability to drive conversations around quality with cross-functional teams.
- Experience of being the main point of contact regarding Quality Assurance within your team - and a consistent record for creating and driving the test strategy and ensuring your team’s test coverage is appropriate
- Ability to interpret technical designs and challenge design decisions.
- Experience of SQL and basic software development skills (Java, JSON, Shell Scripting, XML, Python). And Testing tools such as Gherkin, Selenium, Postman, Excel, Swagger.
- Experience of using a BDD/ATDD model and documenting test scenarios in Gherkin format.
- A passion for exploratory testing – asking the “what if” questions and applying this to explore requirements, software, architecture etc.
- Experience working with cloud technologies (Azure or AWS).
- Experience of non-functional testing, failure testing, performance and security considerations.
- Knowledge of dev-ops pipelines and understand CI/CD principles
Benefits include: 25 days annual leave (increasing with tenure), private medical health cash plan, income protection, life assurance, enhanced employer pension contribution; plus award winning voluntary flexible benefits (lifestyle, health, wealth, wellbeing).
Working arrangement: Hybrid (office and remote working - mostly remote)
Kantar Profiles Division
Unleash your potential at Kantar's Profiles division, home to the world’s largest audience network.
Join our expert team in survey design, sampling methodologies, and data science, we leverage cutting-edge technology to provide our clients with seamless access to real people and unparalleled insights.
Backed by industry-leading anti-fraud technology, our Profiles Audience Network comprises over 170 million individuals, in more than 100 markets worldwide. Our clients include many of the world’s leading brands, who trust us to collect reliable insights.
Be part of a team that shapes the future of panel market research and drives results for brands everywhere!
Some key facts:
- Our team is made up of 600 people globally.
- We are present in 27 countries.
- Profiles currently holds a 10% share in the $3b panel industry but we have ambition, a robust 3-year business plan and the financial backing of our private equity owners (Bain Capital) to grow to be the #1 player in this sector.
- We provide an ideal environment for professional growth, offering:
- A ‘start-up’ atmosphere in which you can make a big impact and get credit for it.
- The chance to learn all aspects of the business and influence the decision-making process.
- The opportunity to network and learn from highly experienced, senior members of our teams from across the business, globally.
JOIN US
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.
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United Kingdom 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.
