Senior QA Associate, Data Processing
Location – Pune, India (Hybrid)
Data-Driven Research and Insights
MarketCast combines the power of research, technology, and data science to help marketers and researchers maximize their advertising impact and unlock brand Fandom.
Our data and insights guide critical marketing decisions, helping brands determine which fandom audiences to prioritize and product benefits to communicate, in addition to developing, launching, and measuring brand and advertising campaigns across media platforms. Today our clients represent the biggest names in entertainment, tech, consumer brands, and sports and video games, and our impact touches the lives of billions of people around the globe.
#FandomIsOurJam
We’re looking for:
We are seeking an extremely detail-oriented Senior Data Processing QA Associate to join our Data Processing department, focusing on ensuring the accuracy and integrity of survey data processed using Q and SPSS software. The ideal candidate will have:
- Experience in quality control or quality assurance roles, particularly in quick-turn market research or data processing environments.
- Experience using SPSS syntax and Q (or similar data processing software)
- Deep understanding of survey data flow, particularly how survey logic translates to data.
- Proven track record of using quality assurance testing to understand training themes.
- Robust understanding of data processing principles—including weighting, stacking, significance testing, and industry best practices.
- Excellent communication abilities to effectively articulate quality issues and recommendations to the Survey Programming or Data Processing team.
Core Responsibilities:
- Complete extensive data checks to ensure all survey logic is working properly, using either simulated or live raw data.
- Perform extensive quality checks and data validation on processed survey data, utilizing SPSS and Q to ensure compliance with project specifications.
- Collaborate with Data Processors and internal project managers to understand data processing requirements and provide guidance on quality assurance best practices.
- Analyze process flows and ensure that survey logic is correctly implemented, offering input to improve overall data processing methodologies.
- Automate QA processes where possible to enhance efficiency and reduce time spent on repetitive quality assurance tasks.
- Maintain thorough documentation of findings and recommendations to ensure transparency and consistency in quality practices.
- Actively participate in team meetings to discuss project developments, quality issues, and improvement strategies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
It’ll be helpful if you have:
- 4+ years of experience in a similar QA for market research role.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and executing testing methodologies within a data analytics context.
- Programming knowledge in a major programming language such as R, JavaScript, or Python, with an interest in building automation scripts for testing.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, with VBA macro writing experience being a plus.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn innovative quality assurance methodologies.
- A desire for continuous improvement in processes, focusing on creating efficiencies that lead to scalable and high-quality data processing outcomes.
Benefits and Perks:
- Mediclaim for employees and legal dependents
- Accidental policy for employees
- 18 days Annual Paid Leave, plus 12 Public holidays
- Hybrid working model with 2 days a week to work from home
- Professional Pursuit Reimbursement program
Our Purpose:
Fandom connects people with shared passions and builds communities around them. It offers them space to express their joy and love, whether that’s for superheroes, sports teams, or even small batch whiskeys. At MarketCast, we believe in the power of fandom. It’s as important for brands as it is for action heroes and we do fandom research, data science and analytics better than anyone on the planet. This obsessive focus on fans helps the world’s top creators, media platforms, and sports leagues transform followers into fanatics and investments into impact.
Our Core Values:
Curiosity Makes Us Tick
Our love of learning manifests in everything we do - from the surveys we field and the datasets we analyze to the technology we develop. Where others pause, we push forward, uncovering hidden meaning and answers. Always learning, always looking for more.
We Celebrate Wins
Whether its wowing clients with research or solving everyday challenges, we pause to honor great work and everyone who plays a role in it. We acknowledge and recognize great work and hustle that helps deliver the very best outcomes.
Trust is Always Trending
Trust means everything to us. It’s lending a hand when deadlines loom, always delivering on the promises we make, and calling out behavior that harms our culture. And our client’s trust is what makes all this possible, something we never take for granted.
We Roll with Change
We embrace change as an opportunity to learn, grow, and further develop. We do this by challenging our biases and rethinking how things have always been done in the past. This fresh, open-minded approach keeps us agile, innovating, and adapting in the face of uncertainty.
Diversity is Our Superpower
Our differences make us stronger. As researchers and data scientists, we have a responsibility to reflect the diverse audiences and communities all around us. Understanding people, opinions and life experiences fuels our insights and deepens our perspectives.
At MarketCast, we don't just accept difference - we embrace it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our global culture and success. MarketCast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Check us out: www.marketcast.com (http://www.marketcast.com/)
