QA Engineer

Company Description

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B business. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience.

As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com
 
Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Embracing differences and maintaining transparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices.

Ready to level up your career?

Playtech's Bingo unit is looking for a QA Engineer to join our Bulgarian office. You will help ensure the quality and stability of a complex Bingo platform spanning desktop and mobile web clients. This role is suited to a hands-on QA professional who can work independently, investigate issues across multiple components, and collaborate closely with developers and stakeholders from requirements through production activation.

Job Description

Your influential mission. You will...

• Analyse and clarify requirements, identify risks, and create effective test plans and test cases.
• Perform functional and non-functional testing of desktop and mobile web applications, client-server flows, APIs, backend services, monoliths, and microservices.
• Independently investigate client, server, database, configuration, and integration issues; identify likely root causes and provide clear evidence.
• Validate data with SQL and test HTTP APIs using tools such as Postman or curl.
• Search and interpret logs using Linux/SSH and observability tools such as Grafana or Kibana.
• Report, prioritize, track, and verify defects in JIRA; organize test coverage and reviews in TestRail.
• Maintain QA environments, configurations, builds, databases, and service versions; use deployment tools such as Jenkins and ArgoCD.
• Support sprint, regression, release, UAT, staging, production activation, and downtime-release activities.
• Review automation results, reuse existing automated coverage, and identify suitable scenarios for automation.
• Provide reliable estimates, communicate progress and risks early, and work with developers and stakeholders to meet quality and release goals. 

Qualifications

Components for success. You have...

• 2+ years of experience as a QA Engineer testing web or mobile applications and distributed client-server systems.
• Very good knowledge of testing methodologies, defect management, test design, SDLC, and Agile/Scrum practices.
• Good SQL skills, including queries, joins, and data validation; experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, ClickHouse, or similar databases.
• Hands-on API testing experience with Postman, curl, or an equivalent tool.
• Good Linux/Unix and server-log troubleshooting skills, including use of SSH.
• Understanding of monolithic and microservices architectures, component dependencies, messaging, and caching.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Experience using Cursor/ChatGPT/Claude or other AI models

You'll get extra points for...

• Jenkins
• ArgoCD
• Grafana/Kibana
• Kafka UI
• Redis
• Git 

Additional Information

BINGO UNIT 
Bingo is offering innovative and diverse digital products that meet the needs and wants of our customers and their end users. Our core product is a comprehensive web based online bingo platform providing a wide variety of bingo games supplemented by content such as slot games and community features such as player to player chat facility. The product offering includes extensive back-office admin tools allowing our customers to customise the games they make available to the end users. 

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work