Lead Hybrid QA Engineer

sportygroup; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Bonuses quarterly

Paid leave 28 days

Core hours 10am-3pm

Referral bonuses

Top equipment

Annual retreats

Job summary

Sporty is seeking a Hybrid QA Lead to own the testing lifecycle from requirements to deployment. You will blend manual testing with automation, drive quality, and provide technical leadership to a high-performance team.

This remote-first role offers a competitive salary, quarterly bonuses, 28 days leave, flexible core hours, and modern tooling including Selenium, Playwright, Appium, and a Kubernetes-based CI pipeline.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years within a relevant role.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in software testing.
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in mentoring, performance reviews, work allocation.
• Experience with Web / Android / iOS and API manual testing.
• Experience with web debugging and API testing tools (Chrome DevTools, Postman).
• Strong experience with Python.
• Relational databases preferably MySQL.
• Experience with automation testing for REST APIs and mobile apps (Android/iOS).
• Automation testing for web apps (Selenium/Playwright).
• Familiarity with Jira / Jenkins would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a development team, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in software development.
• Drive the Testing lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Conduct regular code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve the team’s skills and output.
• Manage team members' performance and career development.
• Track and record product issues and analyse the problems through various tools, giving feedback to relevant personnel to make corrections.
• Write test plans / test cases and output test reports according to feature requirements; share test-related information with other team members.
• Create automated Web / Mobile / API test cases.
• Track and analyse automated tests to improve test efficiency.
• Develop automated tests and test frameworks.
• Improve our Continuous Integration pipeline.
• Help automate all aspects of the software engineering process.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Test strategy

Automation mindset

Team management

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Postman

Selenium

Playwright

Appium

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Chrome DevTools

Job description

About the role

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of every release that goes out. Sporty isn’t like other organisations that just see QA as a blocker - we give our QA team members the power you need to do your job, including deciding what is ready for launch and what needs more work. You will be acting as a Hybrid QA Lead with the skills you bring in on both Manual testing and automation processes.

Our Stack

• Programming language: Python
• DB: MySQL / Mongo DB
• DevOps: AWS / Jenkins / K8S
• Web: Selenium / Playwright/ Postman
• Mobile: Appium / Android Studio / XCode

What you'll be doing

• Lead and mentor a talented development team, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture
• Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in software development
• Drive the Testing lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions
• Conduct regular code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve the team’s skills and output
• Manage team members' performance and career development
• Track and record product issues and analyse the problems through various tools, giving feedback to relevant personnel to make corrections
• Write test plans / test cases and output test reports according to feature requirements Share test-related information with other team members
• Create automated Web / Mobile / API test cases
• Track and analyse automated tests to improve test efficiency
• Develop automated tests and test frameworks
• Improve our Continuous Integration pipeline
• Help automate all aspects of the software engineering process

What you'll bring

• Minimum of 4+ Years within a relevant role
• Minimum 8 years of experience in software testing
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in mentoring, performance reviews, work allocation
• Solid understanding of testing types: unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, stress/performance, and API testing
• Experience with Web / Android / iOS and API manual testing
• Experience with web debugging and API testing tools (Chrome DevTools, Postman)
• Working knowledge of relational databases preferably MySQL
• Strong experience with Python
• Experience with Automation testing knowledge with REST APIs
• Experience in test automation for mobile apps (Android and iOS)
• Experience in Automation testing for web apps (Selenium/ Playwright)
• Docker and Kubernetes experience would be advantageous
• Experience in developing and running a Continuous Integration system
• Familiarity with Jira / Jenkins would be advantageous

Even better if you have

• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB
• BS / MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering

What’s in it for you

• Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
• A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
• Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
• Top of the line equipment
• Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview process

• Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
• Offline Take home assignment
• Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
• Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)