Senior QA Engineer

You will oversee daily project operations, facilitating sprints, managing dependencies, and resolving blockers to keep teams on track. By liaising with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders, you ll ensure clarity and alignment on priorities and objectives. This role sits at the intersection of product and engineering, acting as a bridge to foster communication and collaboration! Your work will enhance team productivity, improve delivery practices, and ensure stakeholders are informed and engaged, ultimately impacting the business at a strategic level!

Job Goals

• Drive the successful execution of projects across cross-functional teams, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with organisational goals.

• Facilitate core agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming to foster team collaboration and efficiency.

• Resolve blockers and manage dependencies to maintain momentum across teams and ensure seamless delivery.

• Enhance transparency by maintaining clear documentation, reporting project updates, and communicating risks effectively to stakeholders.

• Collaborate with product owners and engineering leads to refine priorities, scope tasks, and improve delivery practices for continuous growth.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Strong understanding and practical application of Agile and Scrum methodologies, including experience facilitating core ceremonies across multiple teams, with at least 8 to 10 years of experience in a similar role.

• Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, ADO, or similar platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies and resolve blockers in cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project delivery.

• Familiarity with modern software development workflows, including CI/CD, version control systems, APIs, and cloud-native environments.

• Ability to maintain clear and detailed project documentation, ensuring alignment on priorities and objectives among diverse stakeholders.

Bonus points for:

• Technical background as a developer, QA engineer, or systems analyst.

• Experience working with DevOps teams or infrastructure-focused initiatives.

• Experience in a SaaS, data-driven, or analytics-heavy product environment.

• Familiarity with compliance or security-oriented project management.

What part of Kantar might I be joining

You ll be joining our technology team, right in the middle of our tech revolution. we're undergoing the largest technology transformation Kantar has ever seen, investing in new AI and cloud technologies. By modernizing all our tech systems, we can respond our clients needs faster and more efficiently and keep Kantar as a market leader for insights.