Software Engineer in Test Automation

The Financial Times · london, england, United-Kingdom

Location
london
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
June 20, 2026

Job Description

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing test strategies, not just writing tests (unit, integration, E2E, and trade-offs between them)
  • Experience designing and implementing automated guardrails that protect platform quality at scale
  • Experience defining and using quality signals to support release decisions (e.g. test results, failure patterns, platform health metrics)
  • Experience enabling multiple teams to deliver quality software without central QA dependency
  • Experience building and maintaining automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
  • Ability to define and improve test coverage, reliability, and signal quality (e.g. reducing flakiness, improving feedback loops)
  • Strong programming skills (JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python) with the ability to build maintainable, scalable test and quality tooling
  • Hands‑on experience testing web and mobile applications (iOS an...

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