Lead QA - Commercial Tech

　　Location:

　　London

　　Department:

　　NewsTech

　　Salary Details:

　　Not Specified

　　Advertising End Date:

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　　Job Description

　　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 heart of our business through values-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: You’ll be an important part of this Commercial Team in delivering quality software, required to lead from the front, to show proactivity, initiative, excellent teamwork and good judgement. You will help define, implement Test and Automation Strategy continuously improve and adopt quality standards and metrics .

　　Day to day you will:

　　You’ll work in an agile environment with the commercial team and with stakeholders to ensure the quality standards across all our apps and websites.

　　You’ll collaborate with your peers across QA, DevOps and engineering in London, Sofia and Bangalore to advocate QA/Automation Test Strategy.

　　Working with third party vendors and partners to make sure that the websites, apps and other features developed are aligned with News UK standards.

　　Managing QA tools like Browesstack, Balazemeter, Percy etc.

　　Running Hackathons, Lunch and Learn sessions, Automation guilds.

　　You as a QA lead take ownership of QA activities, oversee, participate and evolve the QA process.

　　What we’re looking for from you:

　　Devising and designing automation framework using Cypress for web based applications and also building automation frameworks for apps using Xcuitest or Appium for ios and android apps

　　Test Management (Zephyr) across the full life cycle involving internally developed and partner/vendor managed solutions

　　Ability to build test teams and drive testing activities proactively, managing risk and assuring the quality of the delivery for all dev/test life cycles using Agile/Kanban methodologies

　　Strong knowledge of Integration testing (E2E) and testing methodologies

　　Previous experience of using CI/CD tools like circle CI and hands on experience in cloud technologies(AWS)

　　Ability to build relationships with, and influence, key stakeholders, programme resources, and partners/vendors

　　As a QA lead, build a structured approach to delivery and the ability to prioritise and re-prioritise as necessary

　　Experience of managing technical SDET’s and senior QA Engineer

　　In-depth experience in any of the programing languages like JavaScript, Typescript

　　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 ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , 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 have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

　　Benefits

　　Some of our benefits include:

　　Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

　　Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

　　Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

　　Discounted gym memberships , free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

　　‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

　　Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

　　Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

　　Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

　　A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

　　25 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

　　Thriving employee networks supporting colleagues to embed and grow, including women in technology, parenting, wellbeing, GenZ, NewsIsOut and faith-oriented groups.

　　We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.