Automation QA Lead ( Betting )

Accountabilities

• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve QA standards, frameworks, processes, and best practices aligned with Agile and DevOps principles.

• Define and implement comprehensive automated testing strategies covering functional, integration, and performance testing.

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust test automation frameworks using technologies such as Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing, faster feedback, and reliable releases.

• Monitor automation coverage, effectiveness, and quality metrics, providing clear reporting and recommendations to stakeholders.

• Embed quality practices throughout Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and other development activities.

• Partner with DevOps teams to ensure testing is an integral part of deployment and delivery pipelines.

• Promote shift-left testing and continuous quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Support test environments and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve scalability, reliability, and repeatability.

• Evaluate and introduce appropriate testing tools, methodologies, and automation practices across functional and manual testing activities.

• Collaborate with development, product, and operations teams to ensure quality objectives, compliance requirements, and delivery standards are consistently achieved.

• Communicate test results, automation progress, quality risks, and improvement recommendations clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

• Mentor and coach QA team members in automation, Agile, and DevOps practices while helping allocate resources and manage workloads across projects.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in a QA leadership or senior QA role, with a strong focus on test automation and Agile/DevOps environments.

• Strong expertise in automation frameworks such as SpecFlow or Reqnroll.

• Strong programming and scripting skills, particularly in C#.

• Hands-on experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.

• Familiarity with containerization and cloud-based testing environments, including Docker and Kubernetes.

• Solid understanding of modern QA methodologies, automation strategies, continuous integration, and shift-left testing.

• Ability to design scalable and maintainable automation frameworks and establish effective testing processes.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on continuous quality improvement.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, coaching, and workload management capabilities.

Benefits:

• Fully remote working model, providing flexibility to work from Europe

• Flexible working conditions designed to support a healthy balance between professional and personal life.

• Opportunity to contribute to challenging, high-impact technology projects within the sports betting and lottery sector.

• Exposure to modern technologies, AI-first approaches, test automation, Agile, DevOps, cloud, and CI/CD practices.

• Continuous learning and professional development opportunities to strengthen your technical and leadership expertise.

• Collaboration with a diverse, international, and cross-cultural community of technology professionals.

• Full-time employment with the flexibility and autonomy of a remote-first environment.

• Competitive compensation and benefits package, subject to the employment arrangement and location.