Job Description
Senior QA Engineer - Commercial Tech
We are: News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations including Virgin Radio, talkSPORT and Times Radio.
Your team: The Commercial Engineering, is part of a thriving engineering community in Technology who design, develop and operate News UK's commercial products and platforms. We are ushering in a new age of products, focusing on new technologies, enhancements and platforms that will drive our strategic goals across the ecosystem, starting with the core websites of The Sun and the Times, and including a portfolio of products such as Dream Team, Sun Football and others.
Your role: Senior Test Automation Engineer. We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our team in London working alongside our offshore teams based in Sofia, Bulgaria. You’ll be an important part of a team delivering quality software. This is a role requiring you to show autonomy, initiative and good judgement. You will help define, implement and continuously improve a testing strategy, aiming to automate as much as possible.
You’ll work in an agile environment with product teams and business analysts to ensure that tickets are clearly understood and are testable. You’ll collaborate with your peers across QA, engineering and other disciplines both in Sofia and in London to advocate a test-driven development approach and evangelise the importance of quality.
You’ll find these skills useful in this role:
1. A solid understanding of testing methodologies, principles and tools
2. A collaborative and engaging approach to team-driven outcomes
3. A willingness to broaden your knowledge of testing by learning new skills, tools and approaches
What we’re looking for from you: You're a seasoned QA professional who can make right judgement calls based on a sound knowledge of the testing pyramid and best practices. You are eager to automate more than you do at your current role. Your experience has covered the breadth of testing, including APIs, microservices, UI, load, performance, security, and perhaps contract testing. You don't like manual testing and want to automate more. You have previously written performance tests for high-traffic websites and understand their impact on improving SEO.
You love engineering and constantly want to learn more. You do thorough code reviews to be sure what we produce is of a very high standard. You dislike manual tests and veer away from them. You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, inspiring those around you to do the same. You are experienced in a range of technologies but are still open to learning everything we have to offer, expanding your skillset with us.
As a Senior Test Automation Engineer you’ll find these skills useful in this role:
4. Conduct thorough testing on software applications to identify and report defects, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software
5. Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines such as CircleCI and willingness to learn new tools
6. Ability to read and write Javascript and TypeScript
7. Experience in using automation frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, Appium
8. Experience in using tools such as CharlesProxy, Postman, Flutter or others
9. Confident and able to build rapport easily over distance, quickly
10. Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
11. Ability to think creatively and bring new ideas to the table, with a willingness to learn and adapt
12. Passionate about software testing and quality assurance, with strong attention to detail