Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. 

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. 

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

What does a Lead Quality Analyst do at Hogarth?

The Lead Quality Analyst will play a vital role in in the successful delivery of the OCP suite of integrated products by providing robust testing across a range of integrations, as well as purchased and in-house applications developed by the Hogarth Product & Engineering Team. This role will execute, follow and contribute to the QA strategy and Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC). They will provide impeccable professional delivery in their role and build strong working relationships.

Responsibilities

Be an integral part of the QA process, testing applications that are bought in and incorporated to the OCP ecosystem or applications that are developed internally by Hogarth’s Engineering teams Work independently and within the team adhering to high quality standards, providing first-class testing services as a member of our Agile teams that meet our client needs and quality expectations Work effectively within an agile, deadline-driven production process to complete project testing tasks within rapid, iterative cycles Ensure good communication is maintained with other team members/departments throughout the software testing life cycle Technically lead the QA Analysts in the team on a day-to-day basis Contribute to defining the STLC, working with the Team Leader for QA & Release to establish the practices particularly around testing applications and platforms bought in by Hogarth

Requirements

Demonstratable experience in quality assurance Demonstratable experience working in and implementing a well-defined Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC) Has proven experience leading small teams in day-to-day work Has proven experience testing complex applications and integrated systems Has proven ability to define the scope and running different testing phases – System, Integration, E2E, UAT, regression, OAT and Performance testing Can plan, deploy and manage the testing effort for different projects Can manage test resources, environments and test data and can coordinate testing schedules with development or business teams and other QA engineers Can define test scope and objectives for testing at the early stage of the lifecycle and during sprints, Integration testing, Regression testing and UAT as per project requirements and constraints Can evaluate testing needs and possible strategies for the testing of projects Can perform multi-angle exploratory manual testing across applications to ensure high-quality software is releasable Can ensure appropriate test coverage including cross browser testing is executed Can write, execute and maintain manual BDD test cases Can report test status to Team Leader for QA & Release, Product Owner, to ensure the right level of testing is applied for different business requirements Has knowledge of functional, API, integration, system integration, regression, smoke, sanity, UAT, load, performance, OAT and other test approaches Has working knowledge of Agile/Scrum Principles Can maintain a high standard of quality bug tracking and recording Has very detail orientated, methodical & systematic approach Has excellent written and verbal communication skills Can advise & lead other QA team members on testing agreements, bug tracking and test execution

Desirable Experience

Technical development background is desired Experience working in advertising environment Experience with Digital Asset Management systems Experience with Work Management systems Experience with workflow automation ISEB Certification preferred

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Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves.  We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging. 

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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