QA Engineer

Metro is the nation's most loved and fastest growing newsbrand. Under the banner of 'Free to Read. Free to think', Metro has the highest weekday circulation of any UK paper, and prides itself on being free and impartial.

Across print, website, socials, emails, Reddit and WhatsApp, Metro is the fifth most read newspaper in the UK, reaching a young and diverse audience of over 3.4 million Brits per day who come to the title to keep informed, updated and entertained. Recently relaunched for a user-friendly, mobile-first experience, Metro's website offers a wide range of award-winning digital and video content.

We're looking for an exceptional new QA Engineer to support our growing team. You will have exceptional manual as well as automation skills.

Working as part of our development team, the new QA engineer main responsibility will be to ensure the ongoing quality of our builds and releases using both manual and automated tests. You will be key in making sure that Metro maintain its stability, reliability, accessibility and quality.

Main Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out functional, integration, and end-to-end testing of desktop, mobile, and tablet applications.
• Raise defects using JIRA as our defect-tracking tool.
• Designing test scripts, plans, scenarios and procedures
• Execute ad-hoc functional testing on request.
• Analysing test results and reporting to the development team.
• Working with the development team to correct bugs and errors.
• Report test progress to development lead and Project Manager

Person Specification

• At least 5 years' experience as a QA engineer or similar role
• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
• Excellent communication skills and outstanding attention to details
• 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 in Automation testing, preferably in Webdriverr IO, Selenium or playwright
• 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, XML, SQL

Why work for us?

• Great benefits such as a free onsite gym, employee discounts and a highly subsidised restaurant.
• You'll be working in the heart of Kensington great for shops, bars and restaurants where Hyde Park is just a stone's throw away.
• 25 days annual leave
• Contributory pension scheme after probationary period
• Season ticket loan

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