iGaming Platform Quality Engineer – Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the testing strategy and quality assurance for backend platform services, encompassing common iGaming functionalities, operator integrations, vendor/supplier integrations, and platform modifications.

• Design and implement API, integration, end-to-end, regression, and contract testing methodologies.

• Assess iGaming platform features including game launches, session management, player authentication, wallet interactions, transactions, configuration settings, limits, currencies, languages, and jurisdiction-specific behaviors.

• Conduct testing for operator, aggregator, third-party, and vendor integrations across various scenarios, including successful transactions, failures, degraded performance, timeouts, retries, and unexpected responses.

• Develop and sustain automated API and integration regression test suites utilizing Playwright and other suitable tools.

• Examine requirements, specifications, acceptance criteria, API contracts, and technical designs prior to implementation.

• Employ AI-assisted quality engineering approaches for formulating test strategies, generating test cases, automating tests, conducting exploratory testing, and performing defect/root-cause analysis.

• Verify data integrity and transactional consistency across distributed services.

• Evaluate resilience, performance, scalability, failure recovery, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting processes.

• Integrate automated tests and quality gates into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Provide support for release and production assurance through risk-based testing, pre-release validations, post-deployment checks, and production verifications.

• Engage in architecture/design reviews, refinement sessions, planning activities, and establishing Definition of Done standards.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Service Operations, Compliance teams, operators, and external suppliers to investigate and resolve issues.

⛳️ Requirements

• Candidates must operate through a fully registered limited company.

• Fundamental knowledge in quality engineering, including test strategies, risk-based testing, regression testing, exploratory testing, defect lifecycles, root cause analysis, and shift-left quality practices.

• Proficiency in backend and API testing, covering REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, API contracts, authentication methods, API testing, integration testing, and contract testing.

• Experience in automation using Playwright, API automation, automated regression processes, CI/CD integration, test data management, and mocking/service virtualization.

• Understanding of platform engineering principles, including distributed systems, microservices, databases, messaging/event-driven architectures, logging, monitoring, and observability practices.

• Familiarity with the iGaming domain, including game lifecycles, player sessions, wallets, bet/win transactions, game configurations, operator integrations, aggregators/suppliers, and regulatory considerations.

• Awareness of engineering practices such as BDD, TDD, CI/CD, shift-left testing, a zero-defect mindset, and Agile software delivery methodologies.

• Preferred: experience in testing backend platforms in regulated iGaming, payments, fintech, or other high-transaction environments.

• Preferred: experience with contract testing, API automation frameworks, event-driven architectures, performance/load testing, cloud platforms like AWS, observability tools, third-party integrations, scripting/development, and AI tools for quality engineering.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.

• Collaborative and inclusive company culture.

• Access to the latest tools and technologies to enhance productivity.