DescriptionThe QA Automation Engineer plays a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of quality for our Betting Engine the core system driving realtime betting operations. This role combines automation expertise with close collaboration across engineering teams focusing on delivering reliable scalable and highperforming features. You will contribute to building robust testing solutions that enhance system reliability ensuring an exceptional experience for customers on our digital platforms.
The QA Automation Engineer is a key member of our Betting Engine Technology Team helping us maintain a competitive edge in the fastpaced sports betting industry.
This role is a hybrid role where employees must be onsite 23 days per week. Candidates also must be willing to travel onsite to complete onboarding orientation as dictated by the hiring team.
Home Office: Jersey City NJ
What You Will Do
- Be the quality advocate for the Betting Engine team owning the endtoend validation of features including requirements definition automation strategy and quality signoff.
- Partner with Technology Leads and Engineers to understand the unique requirements of betting features and align on tailored test strategies.
- Leverage robust automation frameworks for API mobile applications (iOS/Android) and web testing to validate critical components of the betting engine.
- Own and maintain your test suite proactively addressing test failures and improving automation reliability within the betting context.
- Build maintain and optimize test pipelines integrated into CI/CD workflows to ensure rapid feedback on betting feature changes.
- Proactively identify risks advocate for industrybest testing practices and close gaps in automation coverage specific to realtime betting operations.
- Raise defects identified through testing prioritize them effectively and collaborate with the team for resolution in triage sessions.
- Support internal testing tools and frameworks aligning them with the specific demands of the betting engine.
- Participate in architectural discussions ensuring testable scalable and reliable system design for the betting engine.
What You Bring
- 4 years as a QA Automation Engineer or SDET in Agile environments with a focus on backend systems or highperformance applications.
- Proven expertise in automation frameworks for API and UI testing with mobile (iOS/Android) automation experience preferred.
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript or TypeScript (Scala/Java familiarity is a plus).
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD practices including tools like GitLab CI/CD.
- Handson experience with API/RESTful service testing including riskbased approaches and coverage planning.
- Familiarity with issuetracking tools like Jira test case management tools such as Zephyr and testing environments like BrowserStack.
- Experience working in cloudnative environments (Kubernetes Docker AWS).
- Exposure to monitoring/debugging tools like Kafka Splunk New Relic or Terraform