Position: Middle Manual QA Engineer
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate

**Project description:**

Our client is a privately-owned statistical research and sports modeling company. They provide data and related services to professional gamblers.

As sports betting continues to grow in popularity and the market becomes more competitive, we constantly refine and improve our software to ensure that we stay ahead. In order for our clients to beat the market, we need to make sure we provide high performance and scalable technology to drive their edge and increase betting volumes. We take a balanced approach between process and pragmatism to deliver success to our clients.

In this role, you will be part of a team that takes ownership of the low latent 3rd party integrations and escalated support integrations in our high transactional bet execution software. We are seeking an enthusiastic candidate who takes ownership and thrives in a fast-paced environment proactively improving our mission-critical platforms with minimal supervision.

**Responsibilities**
Work with developers to reproduce, locate, and identify bugs
Work with the rest of the team to establish a QA discipline that promotes high-quality software releases
Envision, plan, develop and execute testing of our applications at multiple levels of complexity
Establish regression test scenarios and contribute to improving product quality
Perform component, system, integration, and acceptance testing

**Requirements**
3+ years of professional experience in QA area
Experience with gaming/betting projects
Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum
At least 2 years of real working experience with Web-based projects
Good knowledge in complex SQL queries
Understanding of non-SQL queries
Good experience in working with REST APIs, understanding of Soap APIs
Understanding of HTML/CSS/JS or JQuery
Excellent knowledge of bug life cycle
Excellent Jira skills
Upper-intermediate English communication skills
Good understanding of test design techniques
Service and teamwork orientation

**Desirable**
Familiarity with betting/gaming industry
Experience with C# or similar
SQL Server (T-SQL queries and basic administration)
Knowledge of Visual Studio 2019
Use of Web Debugging software such as Fiddler, or Browser based tools/addons
Enterprise messaging systems (for example RabbitMQ)
Experience with Jira or similar

**Personal skills**
Good analytical skills
Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
Strong communication and problem-solving skills
Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
Strong attention to details and accuracy

**What's in it for you**
Close cooperation with a client
Constant flow of new projects
Dynamic and challenging tasks
Ability to influence project technologies
Projects from scratch
Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
European management style
Continuous self-improvement