Quality Analyst

Summary

Join FanDuel as a Quality Analyst and contribute to the quality of our software development lifecycle. You will work with various teams to promote best practices, influence testing processes, and implement testing strategies. You will enable engineering teams to self-serve, strive for efficient quality procedures, and advocate for quality through risk analysis and test planning. You will contribute to test cases, participate in software development testing, and communicate test progress to stakeholders. You will also identify areas for improvement in software quality and work with the team to assess code coverage. FanDuel offers a collaborative and supportive work environment with opportunities for professional development and growth.

Requirements

• Ability to foster effective communication across the team and promote inclusive meeting culture
• Strong soft skills and ability to communicate up, down and across the team
• Strong sense of when to escalate issues to the proper level
• Strong communicator with ability to break down and convey technical concepts
• Strong analytical skills that translate into test case writing and documentation
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to test areas
• Proficient in various testing techniques (e.g., edge case, exploratory, blackbox, whitebox)
• Ability to analyze and convey quality risks for new and existing features
• Ability to prioritize test conditions and features to be tested
• Experience with Mobile and Native App Testing with a working knowledge of underlying technologies and how they interact
• Experience with testing the API layer through either manual or automated calls; experience with Postman preferred
• Manage testing process for small to medium sized projects, including providing status through meetings and/or Jira or similar tool
• Conceptual knowledge of automation testing techniques (e.g., frontend, backend, contract, api)
• Experience using object-oriented programming languages, with a strong preference of JavaScript

Responsibilities

• Quickly come up to speed on FanDuel Sportsbook and how it relates to other product lines
• Work with engineering teams to determine best test strategies. (e.g., direct testing, testing reviews and coaching, identify any automation that may be relevant to run.)
• Enable engineering teams to self-serve as much as possible
• Constantly strive for more efficient and effective quality procedures, including analyzing trends around defects and feature areas
• Be an advocate for Quality through analyzing risks, test planning, test tracking, and test run results
• Contribute to test cases and documentation
• Participate in testing moderately complex or high-risk software developments
• Communicate test strategy and progress to various stake holders, (e.g., engineering managers, engineers, product managers, and product owners)
• Work with the wider Quality Engineering org to improve services offerings to engineering in order to facilitate ease and speed of testing
• Identify areas of improvement as they relate to Software Quality. (e.g., new automation and testing strategies to add to backlog)
• Work with team to assess code coverage by both automated and manual run tests

Benefits

• Interesting work - Working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
• A sense of achievement - Our teams own the outcome. When that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created
• Personal development – We strive to create clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level and give our employees the tools they need to learn, develop, and become leaders
• Belonging - Everyone at FanDuel supports one another: we win together, make mistakes together to learn from them and to focus on the future, and have lots of fun doing it
• Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work
• Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy, along with a number of other benefits