About the role
In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of every release that goes out. Sporty isn’t like other organisations that just see QA as a blocker - we give our QA team members the power you need to do your job, including deciding what is ready for launch and what needs more work. You will be acting as a Hybrid QA Lead with the skills you bring in on both Manual testing and automation processes.
Our Stack
- Programming language: Python
- DB: MySQL / Mongo DB
- DevOps: AWS / Jenkins / K8S
- Web: Selenium / Playwright/ Postman
- Mobile: Appium / Android Studio / XCode
What you'll be doing
- Lead and mentor a talented development team, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture
- Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in software development
- Drive the Testing lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions
- Conduct regular code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve the team’s skills and output
- Manage team members' performance and career development
- 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
- Create automated Web / Mobile / API test cases
- Track and analyse automated tests to improve test efficiency
- Develop automated tests and test frameworks
- Improve our Continuous Integration pipeline
- Help automate all aspects of the software engineering process
What you'll bring
- Minimum of 4+ Years within a relevant role
- Minimum 8 years of experience in software testing
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in mentoring, performance reviews, work allocation
- Solid understanding of testing types: unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, stress/performance, and API testing
- Experience with Web / Android / iOS and API manual testing
- Experience with web debugging and API testing tools (Chrome DevTools, Postman)
- Working knowledge of relational databases preferably MySQL
- Strong experience with Python
- Experience with Automation testing knowledge with REST APIs
- Experience in test automation for mobile apps (Android and iOS)
- Experience in Automation testing for web apps (Selenium/ Playwright)
- Docker and Kubernetes experience would be advantageous
- Experience in developing and running a Continuous Integration system
- Familiarity with Jira / Jenkins would be advantageous
Even better if you have
- Working knowledge of NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering
What’s in it for you
- Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Our 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 to provide great internal networking opportunities
Interview process
- Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Offline Take home assignment
- Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
- Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)
If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
