QA Engineer: UK Web & App Quality Leader

Hearst; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cash Plan

Cycle to Work scheme

Discounts across London

Holiday Exchange

Job summary

Hearst UK is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure Hearst’s websites and apps deliver a seamless, reliable experience for millions of users across the UK. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering and Editorial teams to test new features, identify issues and help bring high-quality digital experiences to life.

You’ll work across our UK-focused platforms, ensuring changes are robust and accessible. This role supports continuous improvement, automated testing and a strong focus on usability

Qualifications

• Experience testing websites and mobile apps, with a clear understanding of functional and regression testing.
• Confidence using different devices, browsers and operating systems to identify and investigate issues.
• The ability to write clear bug reports and communicate findings to technical and non-technical colleagues.
• A methodical approach, good attention to detail and the judgement to prioritise issues by their impact on users.
• Familiarity with test management or bug tracking tools, such as Jira.
• Some experience with test automation tools or basic scripting; this is desirable.
• A collaborative mindset and interest in improving the quality and accessibility of digital products.

Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out testing for website and app features across different devices, browsers and operating systems.
• Check that changes meet agreed requirements and work well for people using our products.
• Report bugs clearly, including steps to reproduce them, and work with engineers to confirm fixes.
• Run regression tests to check that new releases have not affected existing features.
• Contribute to test plans and release checks throughout the development process.
• Work with engineering teams on optimising automated testing by identifying suitable test cases.
• Use AI enabled testing tools and workflows to help identify risks, improve test coverage and make quality checks more efficient.
• Raise usability, accessibility and performance concerns with the relevant teams.

Skills

Website testing

Mobile testing

Bug reporting

Regression testing

Test planning

Automation basics

Jira

Tools

Jira

Job description

Hearst UK is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure Hearst’s websites and apps deliver a seamless, reliable experience for millions of users across the UK. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering and Editorial teams to test new features, identify issues and help bring high-quality digital experiences to life.

You’ll work across our UK-focused platforms, ensuring changes are robust and accessible. This role supports continuous improvement, automated testing and a strong focus on usability