Why we’re hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

The vision of the WPP Open Platform is to create a common development and architecture framework, with supporting infrastructure, for the development of digital products across WPP. The platform will provide the single point for access to world class technology and data for our agencies; allowing them to build and scale products and applications, then share them across the business, improving visibility and collaboration. With Open, we expect to address our client needs faster and reduce the time to market for new capability.

Reporting to the WPP Open QA, Test & Release Manager within the Cross Platform Services team, this role will be working in the WPP Open stream and will be responsible for ensuring we have fit and proper testing tools & processes for integrating into our existing CI/CD pipeline. This will also involve working with our QA Transformers team. 

What you’ll be doing:

•    Designing & implementing fit for purpose test automation frameworks, which are integrated into our CI/CD process
•    Maintaining & developing automated test frameworks for wider use and efficiencies.
•    Executing automated & manual test cases, to improve quality and reliability of our deliverables.
•    Analysing testing results to identify and feedback on problem areas to be addressed
•    Supporting and promoting the use of test automation within the platform
•    Working with developers to identify all key points were test automation can be utilised
•    Implementing & Maintaining Performance (Performance, Load, Capacity, etc..) Testing frameworks which are integrated into our CI/CD process
•    Implement & Maintaining Security Testing frameworks which are integrated into our CI/CD process
•    Working with the infrastructure team to ensure appropriate test tenants are available to support testing
•    Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify opportunities for improving the overall quality and efficiency of test tools, processes, and the application; including suggesting and implementing enhancements to testing methodologies and tools. 
•    Working with 3rd Party Implementation partners to ensure testing is completed to the required standard
•    Challenge existing ways of working and develop innovative solutions to improve time to Production
•    To evaluate risks and issues while also feeding back to Programme governance on potential challenges to timelines associated with release plans across environments
•    Able to communicate complex issues in a digestible form (to both Business & Technical teams)
•    Ensure that reporting and communication of plans, progress and issues is delivered in a timely and effective manner

What you’ll need:

•    Experience of implementing & maintaining Test automation frameworks, ideally with CI/CD integrations
•    Experience of Playwright, JavaScript & Python
•    Experience of DevOps (CI/CD) tooling, such as Gitlab CI, etc
•    Experience of complex, high volume web applications, including technical & performance/load testing
•    Proven Experience of successful delivery of multi stream deliveries in a complex global organisation
•    Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer or similar role.
•    Solid understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes.
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•    Detail-oriented with a keen eye for identifying issues and inconsistencies.
•    Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
•    Knowledge of Postman and similar requests tools
•    Strong Reporting and Tracking skills
•    Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both with technical and non-technical audiences
•    Strong team leadership and line management experience

Who you are:

You’re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You’re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You’re extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we’ll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?