Software Engineer in Test Automation, The Financial Times
2-3 days a week in office
Global business publication
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Global business publication
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- 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 and Android)
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to diagnose issues across code, test, and environment
- Clear communication skills across engineering and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience defining platform-level quality standards, guardrails, and release criteria across multiple teams
- Experience improving or replacing flaky E2E test strategies with more effective approaches
- Knowledge of testing in production practices (feature flags, canary releases, rollback strategies)
- Familiarity with observability and production monitoring (e.g. Splunk, Grafana) and using these as quality signals
- Experience supporting or coaching teams to improve testing practices and confidence
- Experience influencing engineering practices across teams without direct authority
- Experience designing quality dashboards or reporting that provide actionable insights (not just coverage or pass rates)
- Familiarity with cloud-based device farms (e.g. BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, AWS Device Farm)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer in Test Automation who is passionate about engineering scalable quality systems and automated guardrails that ensure confidence in every deployment of FT”s award-winning digital products
- You’ll join the Mobile Apps team, a multidisciplinary, cross-functional group focused on delivering an outstanding mobile experience for our world class news
- You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, business analysts and designers and QA Engineers to build scalable automation frameworks, integrate with CI/CD systems, and ensure high confidence in every deployment across our web and mobile platforms
- Design, develop and maintain robust, reusable, and scalable automated test frameworks using tools like Selenium, Cypress, Appium or Playwright
- Integrate automated tests in CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable delivery
- Optimise test suites for speed, stability, and clarity of failure
- Maintain infrastructure and tooling for distributed and parallel test execution (e.g Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, AWS Device Farm)
- Analyse user stories and system architecture to define effective and proportionate test coverage
- Design and implement functional, regression, smoke, and integration test scenarios
- Collaborate with teams to shift quality left by identifying risks early and integrating testability into software design
- Drive test data strategy and support deterministic, data-driven testing
- Make pragmatic trade-offs between delivery speed, risk, and quality
- Investigate flaky tests, failures, and false positives contributing to root cause analysis and resolution
- Collaborate effectively with teams to improve pipeline stability and feedback loops
- Contribute to the broader test engineering community, sharing learnings and evolving best practices
- Support teams to deliver quality software without reliance on central QA
Application process
- At the FT, we embrace innovation and the use of technology and appreciate that individuals may leverage AI tools as part of their job application process. Whilst we are happy for you to use AI to assist with your application, it is essential that all information provided is authentic and accurately represents your skills, experience, and qualifications
- Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be monitored to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2,300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Jon Slade
(CEO)Jon Slade became CEO in July 2025 after 20+ years at the FT. A key leader in its digital shift, he’s driven growth, social impact, and sustainability across the business.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at The Financial Times
Rukasana Bhaijee (Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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