Lead QA Engineer

Posted 15 Hours Ago
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Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Senior level
Gaming
The Role
As a Lead QA Engineer at Playtech, you will manage a team of testers, ensuring effective testing processes and quality deliverables. You will also review user stories, develop test plans, and identify areas for improvement in software quality assurance practices.
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Company Description

Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling industry with over 7,000 employees across 19 countries. Playtech is the gambling industry's leading technology company delivering business intelligence-driven gambling software, services, content, and platform technology across the industry's most popular product verticals, including, casino, live casino, sports betting, virtual sports, bingo and poker. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtech.com & www.playtechpeople.com

Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Recognizing differences and ensuring our processes are transparent is the core of Playtech’s overall commitment to responsible business practices.

Job Description

Ready to level up your career?

Playtech‘s Casino unit is looking for an experienced, proactive Lead QA Engineer with outstanding technical, leadership and communication skills.

Your influential mission. You will...

  • Lead and manage a small team of testers, providing mentorship, training, and support to ensure their success and professional development.
  • Maintain an excellent understanding of product domain knowledge, architecture and general functionality.
  • Organise and manage resource allocations based on workload and facilitate movement of employees between tasks and projects to meet demand.
  • Ensure implementation and testing of comprehensive test plans, strategies, and methodologies for all released software.
  • Work with the Business Analysts and Developers in reviewing user stories, help identify gaps in the requirements and providing accurate story point for QA.
  • Conduct regular reviews and assessments of testing processes and results, identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions to enhance overall quality.

Qualifications

Components for success. You have...

  • 5 -10 years of experience in software quality assurance including test plan development, software testing and knowledge of quality assurance processes/methodologies.
  • Strong leadership and coaching abilities, with experience guiding teams in testing best practices and strategy development.
  • Experience of being proactive and organised, capable of working in an uncertain environment and managing risks effectively to ensure quality deliverables.
  • Ability to review code commits to help with testing coverage by identifying affected services/component.

You'll get extra points for...

  • Hands-on experience with automation tools, particularly Playwright and Locust with C#/Python.

Additional Information

Thrive in a culture that values...

  • A professional and fun team environment, where we offer you proper training and knowledge sharing.
  • Your personal and professional growth.
  • Variety – no day is the same.
  • An active lifestyle and provide you with a well-being package.
  • Work-life balance, flexibility.
  • Fun and engaging company events.

CASINO TEAM

The fastest growing and most innovative leading supplier of management systems to the bricks-and-mortar casino industry. Our team has decades of experience and unrivalled expertise in land-based casino management systems working with cutting edge technology with this field. We provide the platforms that run the leading casinos and resorts from Monte Carlo to Mendoza, Santiago to Stockholm, Manila to Marrakesh and Saigon to Salford.

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.

Top Skills

C
Python
The Company
HQ: London
3,108 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling industry with over 7300 employees in 19 countries

Playtech is the gambling industry’s leading software and services supplier and partners with many of the world’s leading regulated online, retail and mobile operators, land-based casino groups, government sponsored entities such as lotteries, and new entrants opening operations in newly-regulated markets. Its business intelligence-driven gambling software offering includes casino, live casino, bingo, poker and sports betting.

We are the pioneers of Omni-channel gambling which, through Playtech ONE, offers operators and their customers, a seamless, anytime, anywhere experience across any product, any channel (online, mobile, retail) and any device using a single account and single wallet. It provides marketing expertise, sophisticated CRM solutions and other services for operators seeking a full turnkey solution.

The company has won numerous awards including the prestigious Gaming Intelligence Game of the Year award 2018 for its Age of the Gods games that includes slots, table games and live casino.

Alongside our own cutting-edge gaming studios and content we license some of the world's most popular brands from Hollywood studios including Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, Paramount, Fox, NBC Universal, MGM and many more.

Playtech Financials operates both on a B2C and B2B basis. Our B2C focused offering is an established and growing online CFDs broker, operating the brand markets.com. Our B2B offering includes the division's proprietary trading platform, CRM and back-office systems, as well as its liquidity technology platform which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity and complementary risk management tools.

If you are an ambitious, creative thinker and would like to work for us we want to hear from you!

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