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. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP ET’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP ET 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. This role will be working as part of both the Maconomy ERP testing team, who are responsible for all QA, Test & Release activities for this platform, as well as the QA Transformers team who own and operate our Test Automation platforms. You will provide technical as well as best practice support for all areas of test automation to the business. What you'll be doing: • Lead Test Automation Efforts: Develop and implement automated testing strategies for functional, integration and regression testing, ensuring maximum test coverage and efficiency. • Test Automation Framework Development: Lead the development, and maintenance of reusable and scalable test scripts, as well as supporting the design and development of our Global test frameworks • Supporting Multi-Testing Streams: Ensuring that tests are developed and can be deployed to support multiple streams of work at the same time, such as multiple environment testing, as well as monthly releases • Test Maintenance & Optimisation: Continuously monitor, update, and refactor existing test scripts to ensure they are up-to-date with application changes. Improve test efficiency, reliability, and speed through best practices and automation tools. • Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of test automation engineers, providing guidance, training, and support in best practices and automation techniques. • Collaboration: Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand system requirements and ensure that automation solutions align with the overall software development lifecycle. • Sprint Management: Managing Sprint activities to support all development and maintenance activities for our test automation framework • Quality Metrics & Reporting: Provide regular status reports on automation progress, key metrics, and test results to stakeholders. Identify and track automation defects and issues, ensuring timely resolution. • Integration with CI/CD Pipeline: Integrate automated tests into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring automated tests are run as part of the regular build and deployment process. • Troubleshooting & Debugging: Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to test automation scripts, tools, and test environments. • Documentation: Maintain clear, comprehensive documentation of automation frameworks, scripts, and test procedures. • Continuous Improvement: Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and processes for enhancing the test automation pipeline, improving productivity, and reducing test cycle times. What you'll need: Proven Experience of creating & maintaining Test Automation frameworks Utilising multi-branches for supporting different streams of work Supporting multi UIs (e.g. Desktop, Web, Mobile As well as 3rd party integrated platforms Proven experience of the following Tools Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, GitHub, Jenkins, BrowserStack, Atlassian Experience with DevOps frameworks and processes Experience with integration interfaces testing and tooling Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both with technical and non-technical audiences Experience in ERP automation in both Finance and HCM domains Exposure to AI Tooling ideally within the domain of Software Testing & QA 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 open-minded: to 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 aim to create a culture in which people can 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? #LI-Hybrid We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular 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. Please read our Privacy Notice ( https://www.wpp.com/en/careers/wpp-privacy-policy-for-recruitment ) for more information on how we process the information you provide.