Remote QA Engineer

Summary

Join theScore's Quality Engineering team as a QA Engineer and contribute to delivering high-quality software solutions to millions of sports fans. As a key member of the team, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop test cases, and participate in Scrum ceremonies.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent knowledge and/or experience
• Have an aptitude for coding or scripting to better optimize usage of working hours, where applicable
• Curious to do things differently if it results in a high quality and consistent outcome
• Comfortable raising concerns about findings at any leadership level to maintain quality assurance
• Strong familiarity with functional and regression testing on native Android and iOS platforms
• Working experience using defect tracking systems (JIRA)
• Experience making REST API calls or GraphQL queries/mutations to test backend functionality using a tool like POSTMan
• Experience working with Web/HTTP Proxy tools such as Charles Proxy
• Experience testing event driven architectures, with general knowledge of queues
• Experience providing estimates for testing effort on low and risky features
• Excellent communication skills, you’re able to write detailed bug reports, and can explain technical problems with ease
• You have a good sense of urgency, great attention to detail, and a passion for shipping high quality software
• Excellent analytical, debugging and problem-solving skills
• Highly self-motivated and adaptable to learning and understanding new technologies

Responsibilities

• Learn and collaborate alongside other teams to build a strong understanding of our platform and key user actions to be executed/validated (programmatically, or manually where applicable)
• Use predefined requirements and your understanding of our services to know what test cases are required when a new feature addition is made. Building upon your experience with our key user actions
• Provide cross-platform testing (e.g., Android, iOS, and Web) of our sports media and betting apps to assess product readiness for production releases
• Develop test cases in TestRail based off requirements provided by PMs in Jira, execute test cases and test plans using TestRail to ensure features are delivered with high quality standards
• Perform functional, integration, regression, and smoke tests on a variety of environments e.g. Staging, UAT, Production
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers and designers to ensure best practices and standards are followed when it comes to QA
• Participate in bug triaging, priority assessment, and coverage tracking of reported bugs into Jira
• Actively participate in Scrum ceremonies e.g. daily stand-ups, retrospectives, lesson learned meetings
• Work with the Test Automation team to review, provide, and prioritize test cases to be automated, and help analyze automation results

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Fun work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others