Senior QA Engineer - EMEA
Who We Are
VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.
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.
We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology – in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity.
The opportunity:
Are you passionate about ensuring flawless user experiences through rigorous testing methodologies? Join our team to define and implement comprehensive quality assurance strategies for our suite of marketing process applications, ensuring they meet the highest standards of reliability and performance!
What will your day look like?
As a Senior QA Engineer, you'll lead our quality assurance efforts for our marketing process applications, from content briefing through CRM and paid media automation. Working closely with the Lead Software Application Architect and development teams, you'll establish testing frameworks, automation strategies, and quality gates to ensure our Vue 3 SPAs and .NET 9 backends deliver exceptional experiences to our clients.
More specifically, you will:
- Develop and implement comprehensive test strategies and quality assurance processes across our application ecosystem
- Design, create, and maintain automated test suites using Playwright and other modern testing frameworks
- Implement end-to-end testing for content workflows from the WYSIWYG editor through various marketing automation tools
- Establish quality gates within CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and prevent regression issues
- Create and maintain detailed test cases covering functional, performance, and user experience requirements
- Develop and implement API testing strategies for .NET 9 backend services
- Set up cross-browser and cross-device testing to ensure consistent user experiences
- Implement visual regression testing for our Vue 3 Single Page Applications
- Collaborate with development teams to foster a "quality first" mindset and implement testing at all stages
- Design and execute performance and load testing to ensure applications scale properly
- Create and maintain testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, and results reporting
- Analyze test results to identify patterns in defects and suggest improvements
- Stay current with industry best practices and testing technologies, recommending improvements to our QA processes
- Mentor junior QA engineers and provide guidance on testing strategies and implementation
Who are you going to work with?
You'll join our Experience Studio team in Copenhagen and Madrid, working closely with a team of.Net Backend Developers, Front-end Developer, DevOps Engineers and a Software Architect. You'll be integral to our collaborative environment that creates innovative marketing technology solutions, ensuring our applications meet the highest quality standards.
What do you bring to the table?
You have a keen eye for detail and a passion for quality. You understand the importance of balancing manual and automated testing approaches and can effectively communicate testing outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
More specifically, you have:
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail
- Proven experience (5+ years) in software QA engineering, with at least 3 years of experience with modern web application testing
- Strong expertise in test automation using Playwright, Cypress, or similar modern testing frameworks
- Experience testing Single Page Applications, preferably with Vue.js (v3)
- Proficiency in writing test scripts using JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or similar
- Knowledge of performance testing tools and methodologies (JMeter, k6, etc.)
- Experience with database testing and data validation techniques
- Familiarity with containerized application testing
Ideally you also have:
- Understanding of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and experience with tools like Cucumber
- Experience with test management and defect tracking tools
- Knowledge of accessibility testing and WCAG compliance verification
- Understanding of security testing principles and tools
- Experience testing CMS systems, WYSIWYG editors, and marketing automation platforms is a plus
- Knowledge of testing in Azure cloud environments is beneficial
What we can offer you:
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:
- Connect Meaningfully
- Inspire Creatively
- Include Purposefully
- Approach Positively
Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That’s why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
AT VML Enterprise Solutions
Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.
As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.
WPP (VML Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to 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.
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