Software Development Engineer in Test
About the role
Location: DMGT HQ - High Street Kensington, London
Position: Permanent
About the Role
Mail Technology is the IT service provider for the dmg media group of companies owned by DMGT (Daily Mail & General Trust). These include many well-known and widely loved brands such as Daily Mail, Mail Online, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, and The i Paper. Through our national newspapers, websites, and mobile services, we connect with over 45% of the UK’s adult population, with more than 130 million consumer touchpoints per month.
This role will focus on group-wide e-commerce projects, working across multiple Mail brands and products. It is a collaborative environment offering strong input and opportunities to build experience and take on broader responsibilities across the business.
Main Responsibilities
- Be hands-on in creating and managing test automation suites as required by business partners
- Work closely with Project Managers and the QA team to identify and transform repetitive QA tasks into reusable solutions
- Collaborate with DevOps to manage solutions from development through to deployment
- Pair with other testers to solve problems
- Communicate progress, risks, and issues effectively
- Create automation frameworks from scratch for regression testing and maintain existing automation suites
- Set up and execute both automated and manual test scenarios for new and ongoing projects
- Build RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) mapping for automation test scripts
- Track and manage automation defects through to closure
- Follow best practices to ensure software quality during regression and end-to-end testing
Person Specification
- Minimum of 5 years’ hands-on experience in a similar role
- Experience working in Agile teams with a strong understanding of Agile testing practices
- Proficiency in Playwright, WebdriverIO, Cucumber (BDD), and Appium
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript/JavaScript
- Experience with Git (source control)
- Experience with Jenkins (job builder/runner)
- Experience with GitHub Actions/Workflows
- Basic knowledge of performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter) and visual regression testing
- Basic knowledge of Docker
- Experience testing high-transaction, high-volume applications, including data security and test management
- Previous experience designing and developing test frameworks and maintaining test suites
- Experience using JIRA and test management tools for bug tracking and test case management
- Strong understanding of automation best practices and methodologies
Key Competencies & Behaviours
- Strong technical understanding of web front-end, back-end services, and databases (networking knowledge is a plus)
- Excellent communication skills to articulate testing practices and report progress, risks, and issues
- Detail-oriented with a continuous learning mindset and focus on optimisation
- Experience working closely with DevOps and Product Owners
- Ability to perform or oversee manual testing when required
- Proactive in refactoring and improving code quality
Package Description
Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:
- 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
- Pension plan and life cover
- Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics
Plus much more...
About Us
dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper, MailOnline, and Mail+reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.
Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 160 million unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.*
Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 28 million total followers and nearly 45 billion views** in the past year.
*GA Sept 2024 **March 2024 - Feb 2025 inclusive
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.
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