QA Engineer

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.

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 under‐represented 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 and 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 through tooling, automation, and continuous improvement. Improving collaboration between product, engineering, and design, and supporting a culture of shared ownership for quality across the teams.

What You’ll Do

• Own quality for features from refinement through to release, helping define testable acceptance criteria and appropriate test coverage.
• Perform manual, exploratory, smoke, and regression testing across web, mobile, API, and backend systems.
• Create and maintain clear test plans, test cases and defect reports.
• Support production issues and customer‑reported bugs by working closely with your scrum teams.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive, high‑value, or regression‑heavy scenarios.
• Help evolve QA practices, tooling, and automation capabilities across the team.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency and release confidence through automation and smarter testing approaches.
• Contribute to automated test coverage using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Appium, or similar frameworks.
• Communicate quality risks, test coverage, and release readiness clearly to stakeholders across engineering and product.

Contribute to Team Delivery

• Participate actively in agile ceremonies including refinement, planning, retrospectives, Scrum, and Kanban processes.
• Advocate for quality throughout the development lifecycle by helping shape clear acceptance criteria and testable user stories.
• Contribute to release readiness discussions by communicating risks, trade‑offs, and test coverage clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively across engineering, product, and support teams to foster a strong culture of quality ownership.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience in manual, exploratory, smoke, regression, and functional testing within agile teams.
• A good understanding of QA methodologies, risk‑based testing, and shift‑left quality practices.
• Experience testing web, iOS, Android, APIs, and integrated systems.
• Hands‑on experience with API testing tools such as Postman or equivalent.
• Ability to design pragmatic test strategies and comprehensive test cases across different scenarios.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to spot risks, gaps, and edge cases early.
• An interest in automation and a desire to grow skills in tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Appium, or similar.
• Good communication skills and confidence working across engineering, product, and support teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience contributing to test automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.
• Ability to influence QA practices and promote a strong culture of quality ownership across the team.

What’s in it for you? Our benefits

Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best‑in‑class perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here.

We currently operate a hybrid model which requires staff to work onsite 50% of the time, subject to role requirements & regular review. While flexible working requests will be considered, not all patterns are suitable for all roles. We believe this balanced approach supports flexibility and protects our culture, and supports peer learning. We reserve discretion on reasonable notice to change this approach either generally or for specific individuals or teams.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, a member of our team will be happy to help.