Quality Assurance Engineer

About Us

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos' complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at

Role Summary

As Quality Assurance Engineer, you will work with a high-performance collaborative team of Testers, ensuring that the approach and delivery of all aspects of the team's work aligns with departmental standards.

You will be a hands-on member of the team doing testing of the company's IT applications such as Snowflake, Matillion, Salesforce, Zuora and SAP; to test Integration layer processes within Mulesoft and Service Layer.

You will also ensure that the quality of all deliveries made by the team meets the defined criteria and engage with groups across the business to enable to effectively deliver products and updates that meet customer requirements and expectations.

• Design and execute QA test plans aligned with team standards.
• Collaborate with the Scrum Master, BA and TA to resolve and clarify requirements or issues promptly and if possible, suggest recommendations.
• Participate in debugging and triage processes.
• Develop, implement and document manual functional/regression tests.
• Manage and prioritize tasks to meet project timelines.
• Support testing strategy in coordination with QA Lead.
• Independently deliver small projects with minimal guidance.
• Ensure release quality through Test Driven Development and test coverage reviews.
• Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) investigations and drive improvements.
• Contribute to broader team goals and priorities.
• Other duties and responsibilities as directed

• Essential
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar (Open to Fresh IT Graduates)
• Effective communication skills with colleagues and business stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Strong sense of curiosity and willingness to learn new tools and technologies related to but not limited to QA testing
• Adaptability in fast-paced and changing environments
• Time management and task prioritization skills
• Amenable to work remotely
• Amenable to work on EMEA Shift (4PM-1AM PHT)

• Basic understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
• Familiarity with manual and automated testing tools (e.g., JIRA, Zephyr, etc)
• Exposure to basic programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, Bash)
• Familiarity with Data warehousing and databases (SQL, DDL, DML, etc.)

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What's Great About Sophos?

· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.

· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge

· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We're proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we're committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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