QA Automation Engineer

Job Description

Commercial Engineering is part of a thriving engineering community in Technology that designs, develops, and operates News UK's commercial products and platforms. The team is ushering in a new age of products, focusing on new technologies and enhancements that drive strategic goals across an ecosystem including The Sun, The Times, and a portfolio of products like Dream Team and Sun Football.

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will be a vital part of a team delivering high-quality software while helping to define and continuously improve a testing strategy focused on automation. Reporting to the QA Lead, you will collaborate with peers across London and Sofia to advocate for test‑driven development and evangelise the importance of quality in an agile environment.

• Define and implement a comprehensive testing strategy that aims to automate as much of the lifecycle as possible.
• Collaborate with product teams and business analysts to ensure all tickets are clearly understood, testable, and aligned with user needs.
• Advocate for a test‑driven development approach within the engineering community to ensure quality is built‑in from the start.
• Create and maintain robust test automation frameworks from scratch using tools like JavaScript or Type Script.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, such as Circle
  
  CI, to ensure seamless and reliable software delivery.
• Share knowledge by presenting technical insights to internal teams and representing News UK’s QA excellence at external meetups.

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the testing pyramid and best practices to make informed judgment calls on software quality.
• Apply technical expertise across APIs, microservices, UI, and performance testing to ensure high‑traffic websites remain stable and SEO‑optimised.
• Utilize shell scripting, AWS, and Docker to manage environments and support scalable testing infrastructure.
• Show proficiency in JavaScript‑based frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, or Jest to build modern automation suites.
• Exhibit experience testing Graph
  
  QL applications and using visual testing tools like Percy to maintain interface integrity.

News UK is 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 talk

SPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market‑leading local 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 multi‑format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun.

Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in‑office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

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.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society.

And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term…