Senior QA Engineer

<h2><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b>We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2><h2></h2><h2><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b>To start a career that is out of the ordinary, please apply...</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2><p></p><h2><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><u>Job Details</u></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2><p><span>We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. </span></p><p></p><p><b><u>About the job</u></b></p><p></p><p>We are looking for a <b>Senior QA Engineer </b>to join our engineering community. Together we are building, enhancing and supporting the next generation of our platform. You will play a key role in defining and driving quality across initiatives, ensuring that robust strategies, processes, and practices are in place. This role is perfect for experienced quality assurance engineers who thrive on autonomy, ownership, and collaboration while delivering scalable and maintainable solutions.</p><p></p><p><span>As a Senior QA Engineer, you will take ownership of quality within our group together with our QA engineering team. You will develop and improve existent test strategies, ensure production readiness, and continuously be looking out for quality areas that can be further improved. </span>You will not only implement but also mentor others on best practices for testing and automation, ensuring that high standards of quality are upheld and continuously improved.</p><p></p><p><span>You will be working on a micro-service</span>s<span> architecture along with the existing development teams. Therefore, you will collaborate closely with clients and platforms that you depend on to ensure shared understanding of functionalities. Your tests written in Gherkin should be the guarantee of correctly functioning software in Production. They are also the living specification of our micro-services. </span>We prioritize automation to enable faster, higher-quality delivery and reduce repetitive manual testing.</p><p></p><p><b><u>Job Goals</u></b></p><p></p><ul><li><p>Follow the QA strategy in place that meets the functional and non-functional requirements of key functionalities</p></li><li><p>Define and own end-to-end test strategies for initiatives and projects</p></li><li><p>Participate and coordinate QA activities across multiple teams, ensuring alignment and quality</p></li><li><p>Support on the needed compromises to ensure good testability</p></li><li><p>Identify flaws and propose improvements to QA and delivery processes</p></li><li><p>Push for a QA mindset across the entire team</p></li><li><p>Perform and lead root cause analysis of live incidents, ensuring corrective and preventive actions</p></li><li><p>Ensure project quality requirements are fulfilled and aligned with standards</p></li><li><p>Contribute to CI/CD pipelines related to QA, proposing and implementing improvements</p></li><li><p>Mentor colleagues, providing guidance on QA concepts, automation frameworks, and CI/CD practices</p></li><li><p>Foster for live documentation being maintained and understandable by less technical stakeholders</p></li><li><p>Understand and report the QA status of the team</p></li><li><p>Foster to identify risks and escalate issues in a timely manner</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><u>Ideal Skills &amp; Capabilities</u></b></p><p></p><ul><li><p>This role would suit anyone who wants to pursue the quality assurance domain and recognizes that automation is key to true agility at scale</p></li><li><p>Proven experience defining and executing QA strategies in complex systems</p></li><li><p>Ability to mentor and train colleagues, and to be a reference point for QA and quality standards</p></li><li><p>Deep knowledge of automated testing frameworks and ability to design modular, maintainable tests</p></li><li><p>Good experience in object-oriented programming</p></li><li><p>Strong understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, and ability to build code with high-quality</p></li><li><p>Strong programming skills (C#, .NET 6, JavaScript) and experience with frameworks such as SpecFlow, WebDriver, Cypress, Karma, Jasmine, Jest, Playwright, xUnit, Fluent Assertions and Living Documentation.</p></li><li><p>Will to report testing status and publishing Living Documentation</p></li><li><p>Good knowledge of RESt microservices, distributed systems, Docker test and Azure</p></li><li><p>Experience configuring and evolving CI/CD pipelines with a focus on quality automation</p></li><li><p>Ability to design and maintain monitoring dashboards, correlate system data, and