QA Engineer
Playtech's Bingo unit is looking for a QA Engineer to join its Bulgarian office. The role involves ensuring the quality and stability of a complex Bingo platform spanning desktop and mobile web clients.
This position is suited to a hands-on QA professional who can work independently, investigate issues across multiple components, and collaborate closely with developers and stakeholders from requirements through production activation.
- Analyse and clarify requirements, identify risks, and create effective test plans and test cases.
- Perform functional and non-functional testing of desktop and mobile web applications, client-server flows, APIs, backend services, monoliths, and microservices.
- Independently investigate client, server, database, configuration, and integration issues; identify likely root causes and provide clear evidence.
- Validate data with SQL and test HTTP APIs using tools such as Postman or curl.
- Search and interpret logs using Linux/SSH and observability tools such as Grafana or Kibana.
- Report, prioritise, track, and verify defects in JIRA; organise test coverage and reviews in TestRail.
- Maintain QA environments, configurations, builds, databases, and service versions; use deployment tools such as Jenkins and ArgoCD.
- Support sprint, regression, release, UAT, staging, production activation, and downtime-release activities.
- Review automation results, reuse existing automated coverage, and identify suitable scenarios for automation.
- Provide reliable estimates, communicate progress and risks early, and work with developers and stakeholders to meet quality and release goals.
- 2+ years of experience as a QA Engineer testing web or mobile applications and distributed client-server systems (required).
- Very good knowledge of testing methodologies, defect management, test design, SDLC, and Agile/Scrum practices (required).
- Good SQL skills, including queries, joins, and data validation; experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, ClickHouse, or similar databases (required).
- Hands-on API testing experience with Postman, curl, or an equivalent tool (required).
- Good Linux/Unix and server-log troubleshooting skills, including use of SSH (required).
- Understanding of monolithic and microservices architectures, component dependencies, messaging, and caching (required).
- Good written and spoken English (required).
- Experience using Cursor/ChatGPT/Claude or other AI models (required).
- Jenkins (nice-to-have).
- ArgoCD (nice-to-have).
- Grafana/Kibana (nice-to-have).
- Kafka (nice-to-have).
- UI (nice-to-have).
- Redis (nice-to-have).
- Git (nice-to-have).
Playtech plc is one of the world's largest gambling technology companies, providing software, platforms and content to online and land-based operators. Founded in 1999 and registered in the Isle of Man, it supplies casino, live casino, sportsbook, bingo and poker products, along with its IMS player-management platform. The company also runs B2C operations, most notably the Snaitech business in Italy. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Playtech employs thousands of people across offices worldwide.