GOC | Quality Assurance Engineer

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

About WPP Media 

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com. 

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com 

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: 

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.

• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.

• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise. 

 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. 

What you will do:

• 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. 

 Skills and Experience 

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 of cloud platforms and how applications are deployed and managed within them (e.g., containerization with Docker, orchestration). 

• Data Domain Knowledge: Interest in brand, adtech, and marketing data, and the ability to apply this understanding to testing data correctness and availability. 

• CI/CD & Version Control: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), branching strategies, and testing best practices. 

• A proactive approach to solving problems and improving systems. 

Life at WPP Media & Benefits 

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include access to internal learning platforms, certifications, and training sessions, life insurance, medical care & sports card in Medicover, funding for English language learning, employee mental health awareness day, and more.  

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. We are committed to offering equal opportunities to all employees, which is why we only establish collaborations based on employment contracts. 

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office two days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. 

 Following a detailed review of all applications, we will contact those candidates whose qualifications and stated terms of cooperation most closely align the objectives of our recruitment process.

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 The gross salary for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. This range reflects our broader group’s compensation framework across diverse agencies and disciplines. For this specific role, our offer will be determined within this range based on our internal benchmark, reflecting the specific market conditions for our discipline. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications.

In addition to the salary range provided, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees' well-being and professional growth. While specific details may vary by agency, typical benefits often include: private medical care, professional development opportunities, training programmes and flexible working arrangements (where applicable). Some agencies may offer additional benefits.