Senior QA Engineer
In this role, the Senior QA Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality of every release that goes out. Sporty Group gives its QA team members the power they need to do their job, including deciding what is ready for launch and what needs more work. The successful candidate will be acting as a Hybrid QA Engineer with skills in both manual testing and automation processes. They will be involved at every step of the development process, from requirements capture and estimation, all the way through to final testing and launching. The role requires the candidate to be based in the EU timezone to ensure collaboration with the rest of the team daily.
- Testing (black box, white box, integration, and performance) of the Web and Android / iOS platforms.
- Track and record product issues and analyse the problems through various tools, giving feedback to relevant personnel to make corrections.
- Write test plans / test cases and output test reports according to feature requirements.
- Share test-related information with other team members.
- 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 automated Web / Mobile / API test cases.
- Track and analyse automated tests to improve test efficiency.
- Develop automated tests and test frameworks.
- Improve the Continuous Integration pipeline.
- Help automate all aspects of the software engineering process.
- Review designs and code done by others and provide constructive feedback.
- Continuously develop your own skills.
- Mentor less experienced members of the team.
- Identify and execute on opportunities to improve or establish quality processes.
- 3+ years of testing experience (required)
- Solid understanding of testing types: unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, stress/performance, and API testing (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)
- Strong experience with Python (required)
- Experience with Automation testing knowledge with REST APIs (required)
- Experience in test automation for mobile apps (Android and iOS) (required)
- Experience in Automation testing for web apps (Selenium/ Playwright) (required)
- Docker and Kubernetes experience (nice-to-have)
- Familiarity with Jira / Jenkins (nice-to-have)
- Working knowledge of NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB (nice-to-have)
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering (nice-to-have)
- A competitive salary
- Individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment
- Annual company retreats
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.