Quality Assurance Engineer

Catapult; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Catapult is seeking a QA Engineer in Greater London to develop and enhance products for professional sports teams. You will be responsible for testing desktop and mobile Cloud applications and will play an integral role in a cross-functional agile team. Ideal candidates will have at least 2 years of experience, a good command of testing tools like Jira, and familiarity with automation tools such as Playwright. Join us to impact the future of sports performance technology.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience testing desktop applications.
• Experience with mobile Cloud applications is a plus.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop products for professional sports teams.
• Conduct regression tests and verify bug fixes.
• Participate in a cross-functional agile scrum team.

Skills

Testing desktop applications

Agile methodologies

Documentation skills

Node.js

Typescript

Experience with Test Automation

CI/CD integration

Tools

Jira

Playwright

Vitest

GitHub Actions

Job description

Catapult is building the future of sports performance technology, with a mission to Unleash the Potential of every athlete and team on earth. We don't just work in the sporting industry; we are actively changing it. Since 2006, our solutions have been leading the way in sports performance software, science, and data, in a world where 1% can literally mean the difference between winning and losing. We work with over 5,000+ teams around the world, empowering coaches, managers and trainers in premier teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, EPL, AFL, NRL, NCAA and more. We provide the information they need to optimize athletes’ health, game-day readiness, and performance, as well as in-game tactics. Catapult is a sports technology company that empowers professional teams to make data-driven decisions. We deliver health, performance, video, and AI insights from the locker room to competitive environments, ensuring every decision is an opportunity to gain an advantage, sharpen performance, and build lasting success.

What You’ll Do

• Develop products used by professional and collegiate sports teams to import, edit, review, analyze, and search across video and complex associated metadata
• Design new features in collaboration with the team
• Work within an ecosystem of products in a Client / Server / Cloud architecture
• Improve product quality by executing regression tests, verifying bug fixes, and providing feedback on user experience
• Create, manage and maintain clear, comprehensive and well-structured automated test suites
• Actively participate in a cross-functional agile scrum team, including Engineers, QA, and DevOps
• Help the team continuously evaluate and improve its development, test, and planning processes through sprint retrospectives
• Provide feedback in quarterly planning sessions

What You’ll Need

• 2+ years of experience testing desktop applications, in a Client / Server environment
• 2+ years of experience testing mobile Cloud applications is a plus
• 2+ years of experience using agile software development tools (Jira) to log bugs, communicate status, and collaborate with the team
• Understanding of agile software development methodologies
• Ability to work closely with other QA and Engineering team members
• Ability to write clear documentation, test cases and bug repro steps
• Ability to learn, document, and communicate customer workflows
• Ability to quickly and independently learn new technologies, products, and tools
• Experience with Node.js (24+) and Typescript
• Experience with modern web automation tooling (Playwright preferred). Covering both end to end and component level testing
• Experience with a modern unit/component test runner (Vitest preferred)
• Experience with CI/CD test integration (GitHub Actions preferred)
• Experience in the sports industry is a plus
• Experience working with video or audio editing software is a plus

What Your Success Will Look Like

• In 6 months time, you will have supported the team in the delivery of a full suite of tests for some of our flagship products. Your contribution here will give the team a critical safety net to deliver new changes confidently without introducing new issues.
• In 12 months time, you will have supported the team in the delivery of an additional suite of tests for upcoming tools, integrations, and apps for our platform.

WHY CATAPULT

• We have amazing people. We promise you’ll work with some of the most ambitious, intelligent people in an exciting industry, and do some of the best work of your life.
• We encourage our people to engage in constructive, open, and honest communication to make Catapult extraordinary.
• We work in a collaborative yet challenging environment to consistently improve our performance, which in turn impacts our customers' performance.
• Our workforce spans more than 20 countries. You'll have the opportunity to work with people from multiple nationalities and cultures, and to build your global awareness.
• We value improvement and development. We are challenging ourselves to continuously grow and become a high-performance company. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do, and our people are always looking for ways to improve. There is an unlimited opportunity to grow, do more, and do better.

Whether you’re interested in sports or not, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing your work is supporting some of the most successful teams and athletes on the planet!

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized groups tend only to apply when they check every box. So if you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job ad, please still get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We are building the future of sports performance. Our priority is to find the brightest talent who can add to our team culture, actively contribute, and be excited about what they do.