Blip is a Tech and Innovation Hub with a strong knowledge in software develoment, mobile apps, web platforms and retail applications for betting and gaming. We are part of Flutter Entertainment – one of the World´s Largest Groups in the bookmaking industry, with annual revenue of around 2 billion euros. The Code we develop, powering brands such as PaddyPower, Betfair, and Fanduel, is used by over 5 million people in more than 100 countries and we are in the API Bilionaire Club alongside players such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
Currently, we are looking for exceptional Quality Assurance Analyst (Backend) and we BET you have what it takes, to join us!
What You'll be Doing...
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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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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;
- Interact with our teams in Scotland and the United States to support integration and end-to-end testing efforts.
What We're Looking For...
- 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 love to see...
- Experience working in agile environments, preferably with Scrum;
- Experience working in CI/CD with tools such as Jenkins or GoCD;
- Experience with version control systems such as Git;
- Experience in automating tests in Java, C# or other languages;
- Can use basic commands in and navigate LINUX distributions via terminal;
- An understanding of basic relational database concepts and can interface with SQL databases using simple SQL queries.
