Middle Java AQA

What do we do?
We are a British product company with office in Lviv, Ukraine, and 9 more countries.
OpenBet is a leading provider of sports betting technology and services to top sports betting brands worldwide. Our mission is to power growth and player engagement for operators through a global betting ecosystem that delivers at scale, at speed, and at every great sports event. We achieve billions of bets in a season, 60,000+ per second, and have 100% uptime. Our company is built on 28 years of imaginative technology that is iterated daily.

For our team in Lviv we are looking for a Middle Java Automation QA Engineer.
We are hiring only in Lviv so you could meet your team in our office.
The QA Engineer role will involve working alongside Developers, Software Architects, other QA team members and Senior Software Engineers under the supervision of the Tech Lead to shape and implement the customer and product deliverables that will drive us forward in our strategic initiatives. In this role we are looking for a Software Engineer QA with good automation knowledge working ideally within a framework with integrations to third party software.

Key responsibilities:

• Work within an agile Feature Team of Agile Delivery Leads, Product Owners and Software Developers to cover QA related activities such as translating business requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria into test scenarios/cases.
• Translate business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria into test scenarios / test cases
• Provide Test estimates and QA sign off for projects to the management team
• Define the scope for automation testing (component, integration) and manual testing
• Creation of accurate and high-level test cases, automation scripts, and plans in agreement with Product and BA teams that will be maintained throughout the project lifecycle and will be provided to customer teams for ongoing deployments.
• Define and execute regression tests
• Carry out thorough exploratory testing when required
• Troubleshoot test automation failures
• Raise clear and accurate defects, follow up on resolutions and retest fixes
• Analyse the output of releases and propose solutions to reduce the defect count and increase the quality of future releases
• Ensure both manual and automated regression packs are maintained and updated based on new functionality and changes
• Conduct peer level test case and automation code reviews
• Adhere to the BDD/TDD principles
• Ensure compliance with Quality standards, best practices and adherence to the OpenBet Test strategy
• Report test results to Test Lead and/or other colleagues in a clear and concise manner
• Assist Test Lead in creating Test Artefacts and Quality Metrics
• Work closely with the Test Lead to ensure best practices are in place and adhered to in order to maintain high levels of software quality

Required experience:

Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience of using test tools both enterprise and open source.
• A Technical background — BSc or equivalent in IT/Engineering/Scientific or related discipline
• Demonstrable ability to define and construct automated test cases to a high level (e.g. using Gherkin / Cucumber, Selenium, QTP or Postman etc.).
• Good interpersonal skills to communicate at all levels.
• Thorough knowledge of structured test methods and procedures.
• Proven experience of testing complex user interfaces.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• A commitment to quality and a thorough, detailed approach to work.
• Experience with various development methodologies; Agile, TDD or Waterfall.
• 3+ years’ experience in QA of which 2+ years’ experience working with test automation tools
• Should be opinionated, especially about quality.

It would also be great to see these skills/experiences as well:

• Experience of working on highly complex, distributed systems.
• Experience with Java, Gherkin/Cucumber, Selenium
• Experience with JIRA and TestRail
• Some experience developing test cases for software developed using Akka, Kafka, Scala and Cassandra.
• API Testing with Postman
• A working understanding of Docker, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, and Git (BitBucket).
• Understanding of Behaviour/Test Driven Development.
• Experience working with version control systems.
• Qualified to ISEB/ISTQB Foundation level.