QA Engineer (Hiring Immediately)

Main Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out functional, integration, and end-to-end testing of desktop, mobile, and tablet applications

• Create new and extend existing QA automated test suites using Playwright and Browserstack.

• Designing test scripts, plans, scenarios and procedures

• Execute manual integration, regression, browser compatibility, and SEO tests

• Execute ad-hoc functional testing on request

• Analysing test results and reporting to the development team

• Raise defects using JIRA as our defect-tracking tool

• Working with the development team to correct bugs and errors

• Report test progress to development lead and Project Manager

Person Specification

• At least 3 years’ experience as a QA engineer or similar role

• Excellent communication skills and outstanding attention to detail.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision

• Experience of Manual and Exploratory testing in a web application context

• Experience with automated testing using Playwright and cross-browser testing using BrowserStack

• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle

• The ability to recognise and resolve problems quickly and efficiently

• Keen learner who is actively looking at new trends in testing

• The hunger to learn and work on your own initiative, but also have the people skills to be part of a team

• Good understanding of the web technology and Internet

• Basic skills such as HTML, CSS, XML, SQL

• Knowledge of JavaScript and preferably other programming languages.

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Pension plan and life cover
• Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics

Plus much more...

About Us

dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper, MailOnline, and Mail+reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.
Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 160 million unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.*

Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 28 million total followers and nearly 45 billion views** in the past year.

*GA Sept 2024 **March 2024 - Feb 2025 inclusive

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.