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About the Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer passionate about delivering reliable, high-quality digital experiences to millions of FT readers worldwide. You will play a key role across customer-facing teams, ensuring our products are robust and performant across web, mobile, and backend platforms. This role involves hands-on manual and exploratory testing, with opportunities to grow automation capabilities and evolve testing practices.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Use tools such as Postman, browser developer tools to investigate issues and support release decisions
• Support production issues and customer-reported bugs by working closely with 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
• 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

Requirements

• 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

Skills

• 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
• Postman
• Playwright
• Selenium
• Appium
• Analytical skills
• Communication skills
• Test automation frameworks
• CI/CD pipelines
• Jira
• Confluence
• Testmo
• BrowserStack
• Sauce Labs
• AWS Device Farm

Work Type

• Hybrid

Benefits

• Generous annual leave
• Medical cover
• Inclusive parental leave packages
• Subsidised gym memberships
• Opportunities to give back to the community

About the Company

• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• 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, email talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.