Hybrid QA Engineer
In this role, the Hybrid QA Engineer will be assigned web casino, Android, and iOS game releases, and will be responsible for ensuring the quality of these games before they are published. Sporty Group empowers its QA team members with the necessary tools to perform their jobs, including the authority to decide what is ready for launch and what requires further work. The role involves contributing to both manual testing and test automation, with active involvement in designing, writing, maintaining, and improving automated tests as part of the regular QA process.
The successful candidate will be involved at every step of the development process, from requirements capture and estimation, all the way through to final testing, launching, and maintenance of each of the features they are involved in. To ensure collaboration with the rest of the team daily, there must be some overlap with the UK timezone.
- Testing (black box, white box, integration, and performance) of the Web, Android and iOS platforms.
- Track and record product issues using Atlassian Jira and analyse the problems through various tools, giving feedback to relevant personnel to make corrections.
- Simulate user needs and actual usage scenarios from a user perspective.
- Actively participate in team discussions, challenge requirements, and acceptance criteria to ensure clarity and testability.
- Create, follow up on, and continuously improve the test strategies and quality processes applied within the team, aiming to maintain high product standards and ensure constant delivery with high-quality products.
- Design, develop and maintain automated Web, Mobile, and API tests.
- Identify processes to apply to maintain a healthy QA mentality within the team.
- Help automate engineering workflows, including custom tooling beyond the automation framework.
- Review designs and code done by others and provide constructive feedback.
- Proactively identify gaps and opportunities to improve or establish quality processes.
- Drive the creation and maintenance of QA documentation, standards, and best practices.
- Maintain and improve the automation framework.
- Help automate engineering workflows, including custom tooling beyond the framework.
- Align QA processes between different departments and stakeholders.
- 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, including significant hands-on experience in test automation using Python (required)
- Strong Python programming skills, including designing and maintaining test automation frameworks (required)
- Solid understanding of testing types (integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, and API testing), test design techniques and quality processes (required)
- Experience with Web / Android / iOS and API manual testing (required)
- Experience with web debugging and API testing tools (Chrome DevTools, Postman) (required)
- Working knowledge of relational databases, preferably MySQL (required)
- Experience in automation testing of REST APIs (required)
- Experience in automation testing of mobile apps (Android and iOS) (required)
- Experience in automation testing of web apps (Selenium/Playwright) (required)
- Experience with Docker (required)
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and contributing to release quality gates (required)
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments, participating in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives (required)
- Working knowledge of NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB (nice-to-have)
- Experience with performance testing (nice-to-have)
- Experience with stress testing (nice-to-have)
- Experience with Kubernetes (nice-to-have)
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering (nice-to-have)
- A competitive salary plus individual performance-based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Core working hours of 10am-3pm in your local time zone, with flexibility outside of these hours
- Referral bonuses and flash bonuses
- Top-of-the-line equipment
- Annual company retreats that provide opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues from around the world
Sporty Group is a sports technology company whose brands include SportyBet, a mobile-first sportsbook licensed in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda, alongside the Sporty.com app and the SportyTV broadcast service in Nigeria. SportyBet has sponsorship partnerships with Real Madrid and Manchester City. The group hires across Europe, Latin America and Asia, and many of its technology and product roles are remote.
