Quality Assurance

**Description**:
Rivalry is focused on building the most engaging next gen sports betting and entertainment brand globally and we’re looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to lead us into our next phase of growth.

You are somebody who believes in the connection between a company’s brand, the experience a user has with that brand and that reputation of a brand is built on the quality of product and experience. You have a natural curiosity about how products work (with a quality lens), a meticulous attention to detail and can build systematic and methodical approaches to quality assurance and testing.

Our organization was born through the mutual passion we share with our target audiences. This also includes our dedication to delivering a fun and engaging experience for our fans who love gaming, and more traditional sports. All while being deeply committed to responsible betting.

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**The role**:
We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer who will play a critical role in the future of our product organization. Responsible for evolving our quality assurance process and systems, you simultaneously understand the big picture needed to drive product quality, you can build processes and approaches to quality assurance that can be leveraged by Product, Engineering and QA teams and roll up your sleeves to QA when needed. You will collaborate with product, engineering, marketing, compliance, retention, payments and customer support teams to successfully deliver Rivalry’s product experience.

**What your days will look like?**
- Work closely with Product, Engineering and Design to ship awesome new features and products
- Build test suites for new feature development, and execute both manually and using automated scripts, working in an agile environment
- Facilitate communication between Product, Engineering and other QA team members to ensure product meets strict requirements
- Work with the team to help evolve our QA processes and tools
- Get involved in the early stages of product development and provide crucial feedback during planning meetings
- Lead, manage and mentor QA staff
- Lead, define, represent and communicate QA strategy & planning to stakeholders
- Attract great talent, recruit and hire QA Analysts

**What you will bring to the team?**:

- 5+ years of software testing experience is required in an agile development environment
- Experience testing products, both front and back-end, working as part of a Product development group
- Experience using bug tracking and test case management tools (ext. JIRA)
- Solid understanding of Quality Assurance testing methodology and processes
- Experienced writing automation scripts from scratch (non-record playback) using various tools/frameworks to help streamline testing (Selenium/Java script/Night watch)
- Strong experience with testing features developed on both web and mobile considering both frontend and backend technologies
- Comfortable working in a fast paced environment
- Passionate about building amazing products
- Strong written and oral communicator
- Strong project management skills and attention to detail
- Nice-to-have: Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant IT field
- Experience in the esports, sports, music, or other similar business is a positive

**Why work at Rivalry?**:

- We offer a competitive salary and total rewards package including a comprehensive benefits package and stock options (we believe it's important for our people to own a piece of the company and share in our success).
- A chance to work in one of the most exciting and rapidly growing industries
- Work with an extremely talented team who share a love for video games and esports on truly innovative projects; we’re not your typical online gambling site - we’re a tech company first, and a gambling company second
- Work where you get your best work done. Whether that’s in an office (when it’s safe enough) or in the comfort of your own home. Our offices are located in Toronto, but a large portion of our company works remotely across 17 different countries.
- Free video games Every Rivalry employee gets a monthly stipend to spend on games.

**About Rivalry**:
Rivalry is an esports/sports betting and entertainment startup on the hunt to revolutionize an entire industry. We exists to grow esports, from the grassroots communities to the professional players and leagues.

Driven by our passion for games, we are delivering the most comprehensive offerings and product innovations to a new generation of players. All while being deeply committed to responsible betting.