Sports QA Tester

We are seeking a Sports QA Resource  having 8+ years of   professional experience creates, maintains, and executes automated testing frameworks to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of high-volume transaction systems and real-time data feeds. Key responsibilities include designing API and UI test automation ( Python/Java ), validating financial logic/ledger reconciliation, and simulating peak load traffic.

This role requires close collaboration with cross‑functional teams, adherence to Engineering standards, Architecture patterns and Agile practices, and ownership of service quality and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Automation Strategy: Build and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for Web, Mobile, and API, specifically targeting API (REST Assured) and Web (Selenium).
• Validation: Validate complex financial flows, including multi-party payments, ledger reconciliation, and data accuracy, as SDET role.
• Framework Development: Build and maintain robust automation frameworks for web, mobile (iOS/Android), and APIs to enable continuous delivery.
• Performance Testing: Perform high-performance load testing to simulate peak transaction events, as described in this Built In job listing.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Argo) for continuous testing.
• Code Quality: Actively contribute to code reviews and write unit tests to ensure high test coverage
• Real-time Data Validation: Ensure the accuracy of complex transaction calculations and live sports betting odds that must update in milliseconds.
• Security & Compliance Testing: Validate secure payment gateways, authentication protocols (OAuth2, JWT), and anti-fraud measures critical for products.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated test suites into pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) to catch bugs early in the development lifecycle.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and developers to define "testable" requirements for new fan-engagement or financial features

Mandatory Technical Skills & Competencies

• Languages: Strong proficiency in Python or Java.
• Automation Tools: Selenium, Cucumber BDD, RestAssured, or Playwright/Cypress.
• Database: Excellent SQL skills for verifying financial data, according to this Build In job listing.
• Infrastructure: Experience with cloud services (GCP) and containerization
• Programming Expertise: Proficiency in languages like Java, Python, Go, or Kotlin used in modern sports tech stacks.
• Automation Tooling: Experience with tools like Selenium, Playwright, Appium (for mobile), and REST Assured (for APIs).
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack .
• Understanding of distributed tracing and logging .
• Cloud concepts like fundamentals, App Configuration / App Settings, Key Vault, Cache, Service Bus (queues/topics), Event driven architecture, Blob Storage, cloud security, scalability, and resiliency patterns
• Understanding of Microservice Development design, implementation, Middleware (Kafka), filters, exception handling, logging, Authentication and authorization (JWT/OAuth concepts), Performance optimization and secure coding practices
• Agile and Collaboration Tools: Sprint planning, work item tracking, and agile delivery, Technical documentation and knowledge sharing