QA Automation Engineer - Betting Engine

The QA Automation Engineer plays a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of quality for our Betting Engine, the core system driving real-time betting operations. This role combines automation expertise with close collaboration across engineering teams, focusing on delivering reliable, scalable, and high-performing features. You will contribute to building robust testing solutions that enhance system reliability, ensuring an exceptional experience for customers on our digital platforms. 

The QA Automation Engineer is a key member of our Betting Engine Technology Team, helping us maintain a competitive edge in the fast-paced sports betting industry. 

This role will be hybrid at the Krakow office 1-2 times per week. 

What You Will Do 

• Be the quality advocate for the Betting Engine team, owning the end-to-end validation of features, including requirements definition, automation strategy, and quality signoff. 

• Partner with Technology Leads and Engineers to understand the unique requirements of betting features and align on tailored test strategies. 

• Leverage robust automation frameworks for API and web testing to validate critical components of the betting engine. 

• Own and maintain your test suite, proactively addressing test failures and improving automation reliability within the betting context. 

• Build, maintain, and optimize test pipelines integrated into CI/CD workflows to ensure rapid feedback on betting feature changes. 

• Proactively identify risks, advocate for industry-best testing practices, and close gaps in automation coverage specific to real-time betting operations. 

• Raise defects identified through testing, prioritize them effectively, and collaborate with the team for resolution in triage sessions. 

• Provide automated reports for test execution, detailing success/failure rates and coverage percentages 

• Support internal testing tools and frameworks, aligning them with the specific demands of the betting engine. 

• Participate in architectural discussions, ensuring testable, scalable, and reliable system design for the betting engine. 

• While there is a strong bias towards automation, you will also perform manual and exploratory testing if and when required as part of product development, to understand the product in more details and find defects 

What You Bring 

• 4+ years as a QA Automation Engineer or SDET in Agile environments, with a focus on backend systems or high-performance applications. 

• Great software development and scripting skills. QAs are mainly software developers here! 

• Very strong Java skills or good basics of Scala 

• Deep knowledge of CI/CD practices, including tools like GitLab CI/CD. 

• Hands-on experience with API/RESTful service testing, including risk-based approaches and coverage planning. 

• Familiarity with issue-tracking tools like Jira, test case management tools such as Zephyr, and testing environments like BrowserStack. 

• Non-functional testing experience using tools such as Gatling 

• Experience working in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS). 

• Exposure to monitoring/debugging tools like Kafka, Splunk, New Relic, or Terraform.