Financial Times

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QAEngineer

London, United Kingdom
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“QA Engineer at Financial Times. Skills: manual testing, exploratory testing, API testing, test automation. Own quality for features. define testable acceptance criteria”

What You'll Achieve.

delivering reliable, high-quality digital experiences; ensuring our products are robust, performant; maintain the premium experience expected across our web, mobile, and backend platforms; support release decisions; improve testing efficiency; improve release confidence

Industry & Context.

News
Problems you'll solve

proactive in identifying risks and edge cases; analytical skills, with the ability to spot risks, gaps, and edge cases early

Eligibility Requirements

work onsite 50% of the time, disability confident employer, Valuable 500 signatory, require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

manual testing, exploratory testing, smoke testing, regression testing, functional testing, QA methodologies, risk-based testing, shift-left quality practices, web testing, iOS testing, Android testing, API testing, integrated systems testing, API testing tools, Postman, test strategies, test cases, analytical skills, communication skills

Nice to Have

test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, modern delivery practices, Jira, Confluence, Testmo, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, AWS Device Farm, influence QA practices, culture of quality ownership

What You'll Do.

Own quality for features

define testable acceptance criteria

Perform manual testing

Perform exploratory testing

Perform smoke testing

Perform regression testing

Create defect reports

Maintain defect reports

Use tools to investigate issues

Support release decisions

Support production issues

Support customer-reported bugs

Identify automation opportunities

Evolve automation capabilities

Improve testing efficiency

Improve release confidence

Contribute to automated test coverage

Communicate quality risks

Communicate test coverage

Communicate release readiness

Participate in agile ceremonies

Shape clear acceptance criteria

Shape testable user stories

Contribute to release readiness discussions

Communicate trade-offs

Communicate test coverage

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Improving collaboration between product, engineering, and design; supporting a culture of shared ownership for quality; working closely with your scrum teams; Communicate quality risks, test coverage, and release readiness clearly to stakeholders across engineering and product; Contribute to Team Delivery; Work collaboratively across engineering, product, and support teams; foster a culture of quality ownership

Communication Scope

Good communication skills; confidence working across engineering, product, and support teams

Full Job Description

About Us The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide. At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world. In our warm, collaborative culture, you’ll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth, career aspirations and wellbeing. Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and inspire you. With no fixed path, you’ll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere. Build a newsworthy career at the FT. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups. The Role We’re looking for a detail-oriented Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer who is passionate about delivering reliable, high-quality digital experiences to millions of FT readers worldwide. You’ll play a key role across two of our customer facing teams, ensuring our products are robust, performant. Helping us maintain the premium experience expected across our web, mobile, and backend platforms. Working across web, mobile, APIs, and backend services, this role is initially centred around hands-on manual and exploratory testing, while also offering the opportunity to help shape and grow our automation capabilities over time. We’re looking for someone who enjoys understanding how products work end-to-end, is proactive in identifying risks and edge cases, and is excited by the opportunity to evolve testing practices

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