QA Engineer - Maternity Cover

About STATSports 

Want to play your part in shaping the future of sport? At STATSports, you’ll join a team trusted by the world’s biggest athletes and organisations. Our technology powers performance on the biggest stages and drives the next generation of athletes. 

From our beginnings in 2007 to becoming the global leader in GPS player tracking, innovation has always driven us forward and our people make it possible. 

We work hard, we celebrate success, and together we’re creating something special. The next breakthrough in sport could have your name on it. 

About the role

We are looking for a Software QA Engineer to join our QA Department. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality of both new features being added to the product and existing functionality are implemented correctly as per the specification. This will be done via both manual testing and the creation and maintenance of automated test cases to validate the feature set. The successful candidate will work closely with the product, development & UI/UX teams to understand the new features and to provide input into the testing performed. The successful candidate will also need to have a technical mindset and enjoy working in a fast team environment.

This role is based in our Head Office - Newry, Co.Down, Northern Ireland.

What you'll do

• You’ll be a key part of our QA testing team, contributing to all phases of the software test lifecycle functional and non-functional including security across new and existing products.
• Create and maintain manual and automated test cases and suites.
• Identify, track and manage defects through the testing lifecycle.
• Mobile/Web/Desktop testing across various applications.
• Contribute to test planning for appropriate products.
• Define and produce QA reports for defects and test execution reports
• Collaborate with other teams to support and deliver our software solutions.
• Participate in scrum activities and actively support product owners and assigned product teams.

About you

You'll need to have:
• At least 2 years experience working in a QA software testing role with hands on experience in supporting test execution in mobile, web and desktop applications
• Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Extensive knowledge of creating automate test cases using Selenium
• Previous experience using JIRA as a defect tracking system
• Proven ability to adhere to QA processes including creating and maintaining test cases and suites using TestRail
• Proficient with testing RESTful API’s using Postman
• Ability to collaborate with various teams

It'd be great if you had
• Knowledge of following AWS cloud platform services – DynamoDB, Cognito, Lambda, CloudWatch