QA Engineer

🕒 4 days ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £33k - £37k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Newsquest Media Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

🛍️ eCommerce

Media • Advertising • eCommerce

Newsquest Media Group is a media company committed to providing authoritative news and digital marketing solutions tailored for local communities. With a diverse portfolio of over 250 local news brands and magazines, they serve 41 million digital users monthly and 7 million print readers weekly. Their dedicated team of journalists and sales professionals focus on fostering community engagement through reliable journalism and effective advertising strategies, ensuring local businesses can thrive through data-driven decisions.

📋 Description

• Carry out functional and non-functional testing across digital products • Create and execute manual and automated test scripts • Prepare and manage test data to support testing activity • Contribute to projects from initiation to ensure quality is embedded throughout the lifecycle • Identify, log, track and clearly communicate defects and issues • Support and coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) • Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery within project phases • Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of automated testing processes • Support scenario and end-to-end testing based on user stories

🎯 Requirements

• Previous experience in a QA or testing role within a digital environment • Understanding of manual and automated testing approaches • Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal • Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment • Strong attention to detail and a proactive, “completer-finisher” mindset • A collaborative approach and a passion for delivering high-quality digital products • **Desirable (but not essential):** • Knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP or Python • Understanding of SEO and digital marketing principles • Experience working across multi-brand or large-scale digital platforms • ISEB or equivalent certification in software testing

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote Working • Competitive salary • Contributory pension • Perks and discounts with numerous retailers and organisations • Opportunities for team building and training days • 25 days’ paid holiday, plus statutory bank holidays • An extra day off on your birthday • Holiday purchase scheme • Structured career progression, ongoing training, and personal performance reviews • Discount vouchers • Discounted gym membership • Cycle to Work scheme • Mental health support via Lifeworks • Eye test vouchers, plus £50 towards the cost of new glasses • Annual volunteer or charity day • Staff referral scheme