Senior Test Automation Engineer

at  News UK

SENIOR TEST AUTOMATION ENGINEER - COMMERCIAL TECH

We are News UK Technology: using technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of media and storytelling. We keep people at the heart of our business through value-driven and inclusive practices enabling our staff to grow and thrive. As such, we are proud members of Tech Talent Charter UK with 34% of our Tech roles filled by gender minorities. News UK Tech is an award-winning team, winning Team of the Year at the UK Business and Innovation Awards, 2023.
The 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 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.

Day to day you will: 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:
• A solid understanding of testing methodologies, principles and tools
• A collaborative and engaging approach to team-driven outcomes
• 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:

• Conduct thorough testing on software applications to identify and report defects, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines such as CircleCI and willingness to learn new tools
• Ability to read and write Javascript and TypeScript
• Experience in using automation frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, Appium
• Experience in using tools such as CharlesProxy, Postman, Flutter or others
• Confident and able to build rapport easily over distance, quickly
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to think creatively and bring new ideas to the table, with a willingness to learn and adapt
• Passionate about software testing and quality assurance, with strong attention to detail

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Day to day you will: 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:
• A solid understanding of testing methodologies, principles and tools
• A collaborative and engaging approach to team-driven outcomes
• A willingness to broaden your knowledge of testing by learning new skills, tools and approache

As a Senior Test Automation Engineer you’ll find these skills useful in this role:

• Conduct thorough testing on software applications to identify and report defects, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines such as CircleCI and willingness to learn new tools
• Ability to read and write Javascript and TypeScript
• Experience in using automation frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, Appium
• Experience in using tools such as CharlesProxy, Postman, Flutter or others
• Confident and able to build rapport easily over distance, quickly
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to think creatively and bring new ideas to the table, with a willingness to learn and adapt
• Passionate about software testing and quality assurance, with strong attention to detai