WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
Why we're hiring:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP 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 and breadth of expertise.
As part of this transformation journey the global payroll team are initiating a payroll standardisation and consolidation program starting with India to harmonize payroll processes, ways of working and streamlined vendor solutions ahead of integration to Workday.
What you'll be doing:
The Payroll Test Analyst will be responsible for supporting the APAC (India) Payroll Test Lead with the implementation and management of the region's full end-to-end testing, planning, SIT, UAT, test script creation for new payroll systems, payroll data migration testing, and integration testing.
- Support Payroll System configuration and payroll migration testing
- Support the development test cases and test scripts for new regional payroll systems
- Support payroll data migration testing and integration testing
- Participate in defect triage meetings and assist in the resolution of defects
- Contribute to regular status updates to project stakeholders
- Contribute to the development of testing best practices and methodologies
- Work with the WPP/WD Test Teams to continuously improve the testing process
What you'll need:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in software testing, preferably in a payroll domain
- Strong understanding of payroll systems such as ADP, Alight, Ceridian, or others.
- Stong knowledge of payroll processes and regulations
- Experience with Payroll System configuration and payroll migration testing
- Experience with end-to-end testing, including SIT and UAT
- Knowledge of testing tools such as JIRA, HP ALM, or similar
- Knowledge of Workday HCM is preferred.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Attention to detail and ability to multitask
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 accepting: of 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 promote a culture of people that 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?
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.
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