QA Engineer

Overview

You’ll be joining our collaborative Digital Development team, where quality assurance is central to delivering reliable, high-performing digital products. We work across backend systems, mobile apps, websites, and voice-connected platforms to ensure our users enjoy seamless experiences. You’ll be part of a supportive environment that values continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and cross-functional teamwork.

The Difference you will make

As a QA Engineer, you’ll play a key role in ensuring Bauer’s digital products meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, and user satisfaction. You’ll work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to implement robust testing practices, support incident management, and contribute to the continuous improvement of QA processes. Your work will directly impact the performance and stability of our platforms across multiple devices and markets.

Your role

You’ll contribute to Bauer’s QA efforts across backend, app, web, and voice-connected solutions.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Execute manual and automated testing across multiple platforms (web, mobile, connected devices).
• Include the ability to test backend API systems and their interactions.
• Collaborate with development and product teams to align QA efforts with business goals.
• Participate in incident management and out-of-hours support rotas.
• Maintain and improve QA documentation, standards, and tooling.
• Support performance testing, risk mitigation, and test coverage optimisation.
• Contribute to automation improvements and CI/CD integration.
• Engage in requirement analysis and provide QA insights during planning stages.

The Skills you will bring

Required:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a QA role, ideally within the media or audio streaming industry.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing tools, and automation frameworks.
• Experience testing in cloud-hosted environments (e.g. AWS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and scripting for automated testing.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Certified in QA methodologies and security practices.
• Experience with security testing and compliance standards.
• Knowledge of cloud services (e.g. EC2, Lambda, CloudFormation).
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and reports.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That\’s why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, however, the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.

Date Job Posting Last Updated: 4 Feb 2026