Quality Assurance Analyst

Media help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.

Kantar Media is a wholly owned but operationally independent part of the Kantar Group.

Job Details

As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making. Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Our versatility, scale, technology, and expertise enable our 5000 people across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, North America, and Africa to understand audiences and help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.

Job Title: Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: London, Hanger Lane

Salary: Competitive

Full time/Permanent/Hybrid  

Role Description          

Working as part of the central team, the role involves providing support for new services, advising on the configuration and setup of components as well as reviewing and analysing data and processing for established projects. The primary office location will be based in Hanger Lane.

The main elements of the role include: -

• Assessing the quality-of-service data processing and delivery
• Developing and using tools for reviewing and reporting on data correctness
• Ensuring system set up and configuration meet requirements.
• Reporting concisely on problems and assisting with analysis and corrections

Role Responsibilities:

• Understand overall architecture and function of Kantar Audience Measurement systems.
• Develop functional knowledge of individual components.
• Understand Television and Internet audience measurement research data.
• Reviewing and assessing data inputs and outputs against service requirements
• Understand & document component configuration requirements specific to services.
• Contribute to developing tools and processes for checking and working with audience data.
• Working with service and central teams in following up and resolving identified issues

Role Requirements

This section is broken down into crucial and desirable skills and experience. Whilst the expectation is that much knowledge for the role will develop as part of it – a fundamental level of experience and technical knowledge is required to facilitate that.

Required

• A methodical & logical approach to problem solving and issue analysis.
• Comprehensive literacy with technology; awareness of technical tools, cloud, data warehouse and reporting
• Ability to work well in sometimes pressured environments.
• Experience of working with data processing systems / tools
• Communication skills - ability to convey information to technical and non-technical colleagues in a concise and clear way.
• Technical skills (minimum)
  • Linux command line/shell scripting
  • Database and SQL knowledge
  • Python skills (basic/intermediate)
  • Solid experience with Office tools – Excel in particular

Desirable

• Experience working with technical staff (including offshore staff)
• Technical skills: Scripting, Linux command line, Database query languages, Hive and BI Tools such as Power BI.
• Knowledge of Cloud based environments and processing (e.g. Azure), Storage Explorer etc.
• Experience with abstract data concepts – e.g. audience measurement data.

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration.  We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients.  Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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Why join Kantar?

We pride ourselves on understanding people, and what makes us think and act the way we do.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.