theScore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PENN Entertainment , empowers millions of sports fans through its digital media and sports betting products. Its media app ‘theScore’ is one of the most popular in North America, delivering fans highly personalized live scores, news, stats, and betting information from their favorite teams, leagues, and players. theScore’s sports betting app ‘theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino’ delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting and iCasino experience. theScore Bet is currently live in the Company's home province of Ontario. theScore also creates and distributes innovative digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.
About the Role & Team
As a QA Automation Engineer, you’ll work with theScore’s product management, design and engineering teams to help them validate and automate several customer-facing & operator-facing Mobile & Web products and ultimately help maintain compliance and audit standards. In addition, you will be involved in the day-to-day QA activities and assist with the QA testing effort during our release cycles. The ideal candidate has strong communications skills, attention to detail, up-to-date knowledge of test automation and a solid background in testing mobile apps (iOS & Android) and web apps. An interest in professional sports, betting & eSports is a plus.
About the Work
- Implement & maintain automation frameworks for web apps and native mobile apps on Android and iOS platforms.
- Contribute to documenting test plans and test cases; utilize verification and validation techniques for application functionality.
- Investigate test failures using root cause analysis during triage, prioritization, maintenance, and planning efforts.
- Help in building and maintaining the QA environments for manual and automation testing.
- Provide precise and timely reporting of test KPIs - automation progress, risks & issues.
- Work with the team to define and maintain an Automation Backlog list for respective products.
- Responsible for building automated smoke and regression test suites and keeping them up to date.
- Become a product expert in our sportsbook platform to ensure the automated tests and framework align with our delivery & compliance methodology.
- Meaningfully contribute to test strategies, test automation, performance benchmarking, integration testing and threat modeling.
- Steer and support the product integrity through solid partnerships with the Product Management, Design, Development and Delivery team.
- Actively participate in daily stand-ups, code reviews, retrospectives, and lessons learned meetings.
- Other duties as required.
About You
- Degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent knowledge and/or experience.
- Experience automating tests for web & native mobile applications.
- Experience with Selenium in web automation.
- Experience developing automated tests using Kotlin and Java and OOP concepts.
- Experience using version control (Git), defect tracking systems (JIRA), and test case management & specifications (TestRail, Cucumber).
- Experience with continuous integration.
- Experience with mobile build tools, log extraction, and crash log literacy.
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team while prioritizing daily tasks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in python is beneficial but not required.
- Other duties as required.
Main Tools Used & Preferred
- Test Management: TestRail, Cucumber.
- Selenium, Appium, Desktop and mobile.
- Chrome & Safari on MacOS.
- Android SDK tools and/or Xcode.
- Linux and bash scripting.
- Web/HTTP Proxy tools such as Charles Proxy.
- Atlassian: Jira, Confluence.
- Saucelabs, Browserstack, Jenkins (groovy), Circle CI, App Center and Github.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation package.
- Comprehensive Benefits package.
- Fun, relaxed work environment.
- Education and conference reimbursements.
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