Senior Automation QA Engineer
Light & Wonder is seeking a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join its digital team. This role focuses on defining and driving QA strategy, test plans, and automation standards to ensure the delivery of high-quality gaming software.
The successful candidate will work within an Agile/Scrum environment, collaborating closely with development, product, and DevOps teams for seamless delivery. The position requires a strong technical background in automation framework design and a commitment to maintaining high standards of software quality.
- Define and drive QA strategy, test plans and automation standards.
- Review test cases, scripts and defect reports.
- Track automation coverage and quality metrics.
- Perform debugging and troubleshooting across manual and automated testing, including defect root-cause analysis and CI/CD pipeline failures.
- Collaborate with Dev, Product, and DevOps for seamless delivery.
- 5-7 years of experience in software testing (required).
- Strong expertise in UI and API automation testing using Selenium or Playwright with Java (Playwright will provide an advantage) (required).
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and automation framework design principles (required).
- Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum environments (required).
- Proficiency in Git, Jira and qTest or equivalent tools (required).
- Experience integrating automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines (required).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (required).
- Good knowledge of Java and OO software design principles (required).
- Experience with TDD, BDD, Gherkin and Cucumber (required).
- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix OS and Maven build lifecycle (required).
- Experience with CI/CD practices and tools (Jenkins, Docker) (required).
- Good analysis and problem-solving skills (required).
- Experience with Maven and the build lifecycle (required).
- Knowledge of a scripting language (Bash, Python) (nice-to-have).
- Experience with performance/monitoring tools (Prometheus, Gatling, JMeter) (nice-to-have).
Light & Wonder, Inc. is a leading cross-platform gaming company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Formerly known as Scientific Games, it rebranded in 2022 after divesting its lottery and sports-betting businesses to focus on gaming. The company operates across three segments - Gaming (slot machines, table games and casino systems under brands such as Bally, WMS and Shuffle Master), SciPlay (social casino games) and iGaming (online casino content). Listed in both the US and Australia, it supplies content and systems to casinos and online operators worldwide.
