QA Analyst (Backend)

Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment.

We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.

We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges.

Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.

The Role
As a QA Analyst (backend), you are part of a Software Development Team, responsible for the full lifecycle of an application. Working in a team formed by Developers, a Delivery Manager and a Product Owner, you will contribute to deliver with quality and pace. You understand and embrace the philosophy of CI/CD and have no interest in throwing work “over the wall” to anybody inside or outside of the team. You believe that preventing bugs through collaborative techniques, such as Specification by Example, brings better results and is more conducive to delivering at pace than late bug detection. You would describe yourself as passionate about working in a cross-functional team that collaboratively build, test, release, and operate applications.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Act as a partner on an Agile team, working together to keep delivering at pace, scale, and with the demanded quality to support our products;
• Analyze requirements and user stories with a critical mindset, identifying possible gaps and being ready to challenge Product Owner;
• Create testing strategies for new features or architectural changes;
• Specify test cases for user stories to assure a good coverage of automated tests;
• Support developers on test case implementation and integration on existing components;
• Conduct structured exploratory testing sessions;
• Support the release management in a CI/CD environment, with a quality focus mindset;
• Analyze incidents assigned to the team and correctly report bugs for the team to fix it, agreeing with the Product Owner on their right priority and severity;

What You’ll Bring

• At least 3 years working in the Quality area;
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Understanding of basic concepts on testing against application programming interfaces (APIs) for web services or API gateways for varying protocols (e.g. REST, RPC or SOAP-based);
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Portuguese and English;
• Strong attention to detail;
• BSc or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrable knowledge;

We'd Like You To Master In

• Working in agile environments, preferably with Scrum;
• Working in CI/CD with tools such as Jenkins or GoCD;
• Version control systems such as Git;
• Automating tests in Java, C# or other languages;
• Understanding basic relational database concepts and can interface with SQL databases using simple SQL queries.

This is what you should have. What do we have, you ask? Well...you can check our amazing perks & benefits right here! 

So ... are you in? 

Equal opportunities

At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply.
We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. 
Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to accommodations@blip.pt.

We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.