Hybrid QA Engineer

About the Role Sporty is seeking a Hybrid QA Engineer to own quality across releases, combining manual testing and automation with the authority to decide what is ready for launch and what needs more work. You’ll be involved from requirements capture through to final testing and launch, and you must be based in the EU timezone to enable daily collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Testing (black box, white box, integration, and performance) of the Web and Android / iOS platforms
• Track and record product issues and analyse the problems through various tools, giving feedback to relevant personnel to make corrections
• Write test plans / test cases and output test reports according to feature requirements
• Share test-related information with other team members
• Simulate user needs and actual usage scenarios from a user perspective
• Actively participate in team discussions, challenge requirements, and acceptance criteria to ensure clarity and testability
• Create automated Web / Mobile / API test cases
• Track and analyse automated tests to improve test efficiency
• Develop automated tests and test frameworks
• Improve our Continuous Integration pipeline
• Help automate all aspects of the software engineering process
• Review designs and code done by others and provide constructive feedback
• Continuously develop your own skills
• Mentor less experienced members of the team
• Identify and execute on opportunities to improve or establish quality processes

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of testing experience
• Solid understanding of testing types: unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, stress/performance, and API testing
• Experience with Web / Android / iOS and API manual testing
• Experience with web debugging and API testing tools (Chrome DevTools, Postman)
• Working knowledge of relational databases preferably MySQL
• Strong experience with Python
• Experience with Automation testing knowledge with REST APIs
• Experience in test automation for mobile apps (Android and iOS)
• Experience in Automation testing for web apps (Selenium/ Playwright)
• Docker and Kubernetes experience would be advantageous
• Experience in developing and running a Continuous Integration system
• Familiarity with Jira / Jenkins would be advantageous
• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB
• BS / MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering

Nice to Have

• (Not explicitly listed as a separate section in the posting; related expectations are covered above)

Compensation & Benefits

• Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
• A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Top of the line equipment
• Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
• Referral bonuses & flash bonuses