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.
A Hybrid working model
Now offices are fully open we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, something we hope will provide everyone much more flexibility to their working week. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for about 50% of the time for most people. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.
What does a Lead QA Engineer do at Hogarth?
We are looking for an exceptional and self-motivated Lead QA Engineer to support several exciting projects in Sunnyvale, CA. You will own the quality and testing efforts of the team to ensure completion of the quality assurance deliverables, adherence to quality and development processes, and drive on-time project releases. You will play a crucial role in the delivery of high quality projects meeting our client’s needs. You’ll also collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver projects in a fast paced environment
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of QA engineers and SDETs, driving quality initiatives, establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
- Participate in all aspects of QA product lifecycle: scoping, strategizing, test case creation and execution including feature, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Review technical requirements, author detailed test plan, and test case documentation
- Identify, isolate and replicate software defects, research root causes, debug issues, and propose regression tests to discover reoccurrences
- Coach, lead and mentor junior/new team members and coordinate internal knowledge sharing sessions
- Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional, design specifications, and requirement
- Escalate any QA issues to cross-functional teams and push for a suitable resolution in a timely manner
- Constantly seek opportunities to improve our quality and testing approach
- Promoting QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices
- Report and drive increased test automation coverage in all areas
- Ability to handle multiple projects and adapt to priority changes in a fast paced environment
- Lead the overall QA Activities, plan and assign tasks to the team to meet project deadlines
- Collaborate with Project Managers, Developers, Content Managers and Release Engineers to deliver projects on-time, ensuring the highest product quality standards
- Participate in interviews, hiring, and on-boarding of new hires
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience testing both web and mobile applications
- 2+ years of experience in leading quality engineering teams, in a highly hands-on role
- Solid understanding of development lifecycles, testing methodologies, and QA processes
- Hands-on experience with test planning, test designing and execution, implementing and maintaining quality test automation.
- Coding experience with object oriented programming languages, preferably JavaScript
- Experience with automation scripts using tools like, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Protractor, Mocha, Jasmine, TestNG
- Good understanding of web technologies including HTML, CSS, XML, JSON and REST APIs
- Good understanding of modern front-end frameworks such as Vue.js, React, Angular
- Experience with databases, API, backend systems, and mobile testing (iOS/Android)
- Experience with GitLab and continuous integration build system such as Jenkins
- Ability to lead QA teams and mentor junior team members
- Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results
- Ability to articulate vision and manage deliverables
- Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including effective presentation with a dynamic attitude
The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, go to https://www.wpp.com/en/careers/wellbeing/benefits-at-wpp-in-the-us for more details.
Pay Range
$81/hr-$89/hr
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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What We Do
Born to make the best work, brilliantly.
We combine craft insight and technology to bring your creative work to life.
Hogarth was founded 15 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 6000 people, across 35 cities worldwide and is now part of the WPP family. Our rapid growth continues to drive us forward making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.
