QA Engineer: Web & App Quality for UK Audiences

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cash Plan

Cycle to Work

Location Flex

Holiday Exchange

Charity Day

ERG Groups

Pension

London Discounts

Job summary

Hearst UK is seeking a QA Engineer to safeguard our digital experiences across websites and apps in the UK. You’ll partner with Product, Design, Engineering and Editorial to test new features, identify issues and help deliver reliable experiences for millions of users.

You’ll cover cross‑device testing, contribute to test plans, and drive automation where possible, while raising usability and performance concerns with the teams. A collaborative, detail‑oriented mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience testing websites and mobile apps with regression testing.
• Ability to write clear bug reports and prioritise issues by impact.
• Familiarity with test management tools, such as Jira; scripting desirable.

Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out testing for website and app features across devices and browsers.
• Report bugs with steps to reproduce and verify fixes with engineers.
• Run regression tests to ensure new releases don't affect existing features.
• Contribute to test plans and release checks throughout development.
• Collaborate to optimise automated testing and define test cases.
• Leverage AI-enabled testing tools to improve coverage and efficiency.
• Raise usability, accessibility and performance concerns with teams.

Skills

Testing Websites

Mobile Apps

Regression Testing

Bug Reporting

Test Automation

Scripting

Tools

Jira

Job description

Hearst UK is seeking a QA Engineer to safeguard our digital experiences across websites and apps in the UK. You’ll partner with Product, Design, Engineering and Editorial to test new features, identify issues and help deliver reliable experiences for millions of users.

You’ll cover cross‑device testing, contribute to test plans, and drive automation where possible, while raising usability and performance concerns with the teams. A collaborative, detail‑oriented mindset is essential.