QA Tester, THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION

Quality Assurance Tester £35,000 - £40,000 (dependent on relevant skills and experience) plus generous benefits 1 Year Fixed Term Maternity Cover until January 2027 Location – Hybrid working split between the Foundation’s office in London and home. This usually averages at one-two days in the office per week.

About The Role

Are you a proactive detail-driven tester looking to bring your skills to a purpose-led organisation where your work genuinely changes lives? Do you thrive on ensuring quality, improving user experiences, and championing best-in-class quality assurance practices in an organisation with a meaningful mission? As Quality Assurance Tester, you’ll play a key role in safeguarding the quality and performance of our digital platforms, including our application portal and D365 Grant Management System. You’ll plan, execute, and automate tests across web and mobile applications, ensuring every feature meets our quality benchmarks and delivers a seamless experience for grant applicants and Foundation team members alike. In this role, you’ll build strong cross-team relationships in a collaborative, supportive environment. Working closely with the technology development team and other stakeholders, you’ll integrate testing into development workflows, to ensure all development outputs meet established quality criteria through comprehensive testing and issue tracking. This is an ideal opportunity to grow your skills and make a meaningful impact in a dynamic technology team.

About The Football Foundation

Over the last 25 years, the Foundation has awarded more than 75,000 grants worth more than £1.3 billion to deliver outstanding grassroots facilities across England. As the biggest sport charity in the country, we’re a unique partnership between the Premier League, the FA and Government with a shared goal – ensuring every community in England has a great place to play. We’re incredibly proud of the difference we’ve made to grassroots sport up and down the country since we started our journey, but we’re not slowing down any time soon.

What are we looking for?

If you’re a proactive, detail-oriented QA Tester, with a passion for delivering high-quality digital products, we’d love to hear from you. You’ll have a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, as well as extensive knowledge of different testing methods, with experience of both manual and automated testing techniques. You’ll have experience with test automation (e.g. Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman), familiarity with HTML and JavaScript and an understanding of API testing and web services validation. You’ll also be a strong communicator who thrives in collaborative, cross-functional teams and can confidently work with developers, as well as other non-technical stakeholders across the organisation. You don’t need to follow football to apply, but it’s expected that you appreciate the power of sport to change lives and have a genuine interest in using your skills and experience to help the Foundation achieve our charitable and strategic objectives.

What can we offer you?

The salary band for this role is £35,000-£40,000 per annum, dependent on relevant skills and experience. This role is a 1 Year Fixed Term Maternity Cover until January 2027 You will start with 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (which increases after 2 years), plus additional time off to volunteer. We also offer a generous pension scheme (8% employer contribution), free health care provision, a monthly gym subsidy, death in service benefit, free match tickets and access to selected events at Wembley.

Equality and Diversity Commitment

The Football Foundation is committed to and values the principles of diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive working environment where all our team feel respected and supported in fulfilling their potential. We encourage and welcome applications from all, regardless of background and are particularly interested to hear from individuals belonging to under-represented groups including diverse ethnic communities, individuals with a disability and those from the LGBTQI+ community.

C losing date for applications is: 9am, Thursday 4 December 2025

First-stage interviews will be online via Microsoft Teams and are currently scheduled for Wednesday 10 December 2025

Second-stage interviews are currently scheduled for Monday 15 December and will be held in-person at our offices in Wembley Stadium.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply. Please note the Football Foundation is not on the Home Office’s Register of Licensed Sponsors, so is unable to sponsor any applications for a work visa.