Description
The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.
About the Role, Mission or Department Overview
The Quality Engineering team at The New York Times is hiring a QA Engineer. You will work with software engineers, DevOps, product managers, and designers to support quality across our web, mobile, and API platforms.
As an embedded Quality Partner, you will collaborate directly with Product Engineering to guide our weekly release schedule without sacrificing excellence. You will influence quality—providing proactive feedback during feature kickoffs, aligning with our offshore QA team to maximize test coverage, and creating test cases and automation scripts to eliminate blind spots.
This role is hybrid and based in New York City, with an expectation of two days per week in the office. You will report to the Senior QA Manager.
We are looking for a QA Engineer—a creative builder who can bridge the gap between QA, DevOps, and engineering excellence. This role is ideal for a mid-level engineer who excels at solving hard problems. The engineer should also automate everything and use modern AI-assisted development tools, such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude. These tools accelerate testing and deployment workflows.
At The New York Times Company, building an experienced and diverse workforce is an important part of our mission. We are committed to a hiring process that is inclusive, fair and transparent, and one that puts emphasis on our commitment to career development.
Responsibilities:
- Be a Quality Partner to the product engineering teams, guiding them on test requirements, testing needs, and uncovering nuanced edge cases.
- Work with the offshore QA team for testing coverage and support.
- Assess, fix, and write both manual and automated tests that directly correspond to the features developed by the team you support.
- Create scalable test environments and tools that accelerate release velocity and improve reliability.
- Partner with development, DevOps, and product teams to define test strategy and ensure quality from brainstorming through deployment.
- Apply observability and analytics to quality engineering — integrating logs, metrics, and telemetry to surface product insights.
- Help evolve best practices for TestOps, automation design, and AI-assisted development.
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in test automation, TestOps, or software engineering.
- Proficiency in Python, with experience writing maintainable automation code and custom test frameworks.
- Experience with Selenium and Appium, and familiarity with backend testing (REST/gRPC/GraphQL APIs).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Competence with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and test environment provisioning.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted coding or automated test generation tools (Cursor, Copilot, or Claude), and writing agentic rules/contexts.
- The ability to identify gaps and propose sustainable automation solutions.
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Additional Compensation and Benefits:
For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.
Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:
We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.
If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.
The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here.
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