Lead Hybrid QA Engineer
Sporty Group
WorldwideremotePosted 23 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 8+ years of experience in software testing required
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership role required
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Remote first company with annual company retreats
- Core working hours 10am-3pm local time with flexibility
Role overview
This is a hybrid QA Lead role at Sporty, a remote-first company focused on sustainability. The position combines manual testing and automation skills, giving the QA lead authority to decide what is ready for launch versus what needs more work. The role involves leading and mentoring a development team, providing technical leadership, driving the testing lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, and managing team performance and career development. The ideal candidate will have experience with Python, MySQL/MongoDB, AWS/Jenkins/K8S, and testing tools including Selenium, Playwright, Postman, Appium, Android Studio, and XCode.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering
Benefits
- 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
Additional details
- Programming language: Python
- DB: MySQL / Mongo DB
- DevOps: AWS / Jenkins / K8S
- Web: Selenium / Playwright/ Postman
- Mobile: Appium / Android Studio / XCode
- Interview process: Remote video screening with Talent Acquisition Team, Offline Take home assignment, Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins), Final discussion with hiring manager (60 mins)
- Every application is reviewed by a member of the team (AI is not used in recruitment process)
- Aim to respond within 48 hours
- Originally posted on Himalayas