Role description

Job Description
Skill Role Grade Location
SDET QA Tester Level 4 or 5 Alpharetta

We are seeking a Sports QA Resource having 5+ 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 settlement & reconciliation.
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
• QA Automation Design, automate, execute: Build and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for UI, and API, specifically targeting API (RESTfull) and Web (QTest/Tosca)
• Validation: Validate complex financial flows, including multi-party settlement reconciliation, and data accuracy, as SDET role.
• Framework Development: Build and maintain robust automation frameworks for web, and APIs to enable continuous delivery.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Argo) for continuous testing in hybrid (on-prem & cloud) environments
• 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 for settlement and reconciliation.
• Security & Compliance Testing: Validate secure payment gateways, authentication protocols (OAuth2, JWT), and anti-fraud measures critical for products.
• 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 QA Testing, Java, API, QTest/Tosca.
• Automation Tools: QTest, Tosca.
• Database: Excellent SQL skills for verifying financial data, according to this Build In job listing.
• Infrastructure: Experience with cloud services (Azure or PCF Tanzu) and containerization
• Programming Expertise: Proficiency in languages like Java, React JS
• 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

Soft Skills
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Clear communication with technical and non technical stakeholders
• Ownership mindset and production grade engineering discipline
• Ability to work independently and within cross functional teams