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Software Engineer, QA
4 years ago
About Skillz
Skillz is driving the future of entertainment by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The company’s platform empowers mobile game developers and players with democratized access to fun, fair and skill-based competition for real prizes, shifting the paradigm to make eSports accessible to anyone, anywhere with a mobile device.
Skillz helps developers build multi-million dollar game franchises by turning content into competitive social gaming properties for the world’s 2.6 billion gamers. The company has already worked with 13,000 game developers, leveraging its patented technology to host over 800 million tournaments for 18 million players worldwide.
This year, Skillz was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and CNBC Disruptor 50 (for the second time). In 2018, Skillz was listed as one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies. In 2017, Inc. Magazine ranked Skillz the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America.
The company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports luminaries, ranging from Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and a founder of Great Hill Partners to the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings.
What you’ll do:
- Write, revise, and own the QA automated test plan for our UI/SDKs on iOS and Android
- Write, revise and own the QA automated test plan for our Web Services
- Analyze current QA practices and help build automated test suites (functionality, regression, smoke, sanity, etc.)
- Work with Product Management and Engineering to resolve bugs as they’re discovered
- Qualify major and minor releases to production
- Organize and maintain our issue-tracking system
- Work closely with the development team to test features as soon as they are ready
- Maintain CI/CD pipeline and test data sets
- Build a world class tournament system for mobile games
Your Skillz:
- Abnormal love for learning
- CS Degree and/or 2+ years of relevant QA experience
- Experience writing and building an automated test framework required (Selenium, Appium)
- Experience with any functional programming language (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, or Java)
- Strong understand of object oriented programming principles
- Strong understanding of software testing principles
- Experience writing automated tests for mobile or web applications (iOS, Android, Web)
- Demonstrate ability to execute and improve upon existing QA processes and workflows
- Knowledge and experience with GIT or other SCM required
- Experience using defect tracking solutions (such as JIRA) required
- Experience with CI tools (Jenkins, CircleCI)
- Excellent written / verbal communication
- Exposure to Rest API testing is a plus
Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .
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