Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Information Technology
KANTAR
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Job Description
Kantar is a global leader in data, insights, and consulting. We have deep knowledge of people's 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 QA Engineer. We are a large Agile team with multiple squads dedicated to delivering outstanding results every sprint to support the platform's growth. The 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 QA Engineer allows you to showcase your understanding of standard methodologies in QA and your experience in automated testing. In this pivotal role, you'll 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, you'll 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
- 2+ 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
- 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. 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.
Location
Bangalore, Prestige Technology ParkIndia Kantar Rewards Statement
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.
Kantar is the world’s 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, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.
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