QA Lead

Company Description
**OpenBet is sport.** The world's top sports betting brands choose OpenBet as their partner for world class content, leading tech and tailored services. We have their back. So they’re ready with exciting, memorable and safe sports betting experiences, to entertain millions of players worldwide.

**OpenBet’s **mission is to power growth and player engagement for operators through a global betting ecosystem that delivers at scale, at speed, at every great sports event. Our 1000 talented colleagues are the market's top team. We achieve billions of bets in a season; 60,000+ per second (more transactions than Amazon on Prime Day); 100% uptime (zero Superbowl crashes) and we're built on 25 years of imaginative technology that is iterated daily.

**OpenBet** has established a premium client base of more than 75 operators worldwide and has 34 licences across the fastest growing regulated sports betting markets in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The team is growing at scale driven by accelerated demand for our products and significant investment. We offer the speed, dynamism and growth opportunities of a start-up, underpinned by the stability and strength of a global employer.

Working at **OpenBet **every day is an opportunity for you to create exciting betting entertainment for millions of sports fans across the globe.

**Want to be part of our evolving future growth?**

We are looking for an exceptional **QA Lead**, with strong skills in Agile Development and Testing, to join our feature teams in a rapid development environment creating bespoke and customised automated testing solutions across highly complex, high transactional Sportsbook systems.

As a QA Lead with us, you’ll have exposure to these systems and more, as you take our products and your career to the next level.

**Job Description**:
**Working with the other QA Leads, Architects and under the direction of the QA Director, QA Manager, Development Manager and/or Release Manager the role's key accountabilities include**:

- Line management of 6 - 8 QA resources including pastoral care, formal reviews, and both identification and provisioning of training needs;
- Management of resources to ensure the appropriate team shape, levels of experience/capability and fulfilment of roles - including the recruitment of QA employees;
- Managing quality metrics across specific projects;
- Adherence to QA / QE best practice for specific projects;
- Ensuring structured feedback is provided to the development teams and to ensure the work is carried out in accordance with the agreed project schedule and quality requirements;
- Implementation of strategy for software engineering processes, ensuring stakeholders, onsite coordinators are on board and measuring progress through KPIs.
- Facilitate the Delivery methodology e.g. sprint planning, retrospectives etc.
- Coaching/mentoring of QAs within the teams
- Attending Agile meetings to support the QAs and input to the team progress of tickets
- Hands-on test preparation/execution where needed by teams

**Qualifications**:
**If you’re the right QA Lead for us you’ll be able to demonstrate**:

- Ideally 8+ years experience in a hands-on QA and development role, plus a minimum of 3 years’ experience leading teams of **highly competent QA staff**;
- Demonstrable experience in defining and implementing comprehensive testing plans covering all aspects of product quality (both functional & non functional)
- Experience of usage of Test management tools like JIRA, Zephyr, Test Rail;
- Experience in contributing to Test Strategy, planning or responsibility for team strategy;
- Proven communication and presentation skills;
- Dealing with changes; must be comfortable both with external factors driving this change as well as internals;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Should be opinionated, especially about quality.

**It’d also be great to see these skills/experiences as well**:

- Demonstrable experience building strong client/on-site stakeholder relationships.
- A working understanding of web, mobile, api based testing.
- Domain knowledge is _not_ required, but having worked on major eCommerce or any significant widely distributed system _is_.

This position is **hybrid**, on-site 2 days a week and possibility to work remotely 3 days a week.

Additional Information
**Why would you enjoy working with us at OpenBet?**:

- Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace.
- The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow.
- Training support and the opportunity for further career development in cut edge technologies & practices.
- Tangible and genuine development - at **OpenBet**, you can take your career where you want it to go

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