QA Automation Engineer - Quantitative Sports

What are we building? Hard Rock Digital is a fiercely focused team working to become the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We're building a deeply curious team with a passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We're customer-obsessed - we care about each customer interaction, experience, behavior, and insight, and strive to ensure we're always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We're taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space - ready to join us?

What's the position? We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join our Quantitative Sports (QS) team, reporting to the manager of Quantitative Engineering. QS builds and owns the in-house pricing models that set the odds on sporting events across our sportsbook. We are bringing pricing that is currently supplied by a third-party provider into our own infrastructure, and you will work at the intersection of development, quality assurance and DevOps with a goal of replacing repetitive manual tests with reliable, automated testing suites for UI, functional, and API layers.

Once the transition is complete, you'll continue to contribute to the QS team to help scale our testing frameworks while designing and implementing testing plans and strategies to ensure that our software releases continue to be of the highest quality. This is a fully remote, US-based role with significant autonomy. If you're a self-starter who knows the sportsbook space and loves getting complex projects over the line, you'll feel at home here.

What You'll Do

• Work with engineering leadership to drive the software quality assurance lifecycle
• Establish test strategies while designing test plans and cases
• Develop and execute automated UI and functional tests
• Enhance and maintain automated CI workflows
• Troubleshoot issues in systems under test

What are we looking for?

• 5-8 years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test
• Proficiency in at least one programming language
• Experience in the sports betting industry
• Familiarity with version control via Git, defect tracking and test management tools
• Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases
• Proven ability to write technical Jira tickets that translate a defect into work an engineer can pick up and deliver
• Extensive experience working with Jira and other project management tools across different workflows
• Proven track record of delivering work on time
• Ability to work across departments with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• College degree in any discipline

Bonus Points

• Experience establishing QA best practices and procedures
• Hands-on experience with SQL or Python
• Experience using Grafana and other observability tooling
• Familiarity with sports data feeds such as Radar & Genius
• Experience working with pricing pipelines or odds generation systems

Who you are

• A self-starter who thrives in a fully remote role and manages your own time and priorities
• Organized and detail-oriented, with a structured approach to planning and tracking work
• A clear communicator who can explain technical detail to non-technical audiences, and business needs to engineers
• Able to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment

What’s in it for you? We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include:

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Flexible vacation allowance
• A hybrid / remote working environment
• Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand

Roster of Uniques We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us, and trust and empower our staff to own and drive their experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunity employer).