Lead QA Engineer – Hybrid

Sporty Group

Lead full-stack QA Engineer at Sporty Group responsible for quality assurance and testing across platforms. Collaborating with teams in the EU timezone to enhance software reliability and performance.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in EuropeSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidDockeriOSJenkinsKubernetesMySQLPythonSelenium

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead end-to-end QA strategy across web, Android / iOS platforms, APIs
Testing (black box, white box, integration, and performance) of the Web and Android / iOS platforms
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
Simulate user needs and actual usage scenarios from a user perspective
Actively participate in team discussions, challenge requirements, and acceptance criteria to ensure clarity and testability
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
Review designs and code done by others and provide constructive feedback
Continuously develop your own skills
Mentor less experienced members of the team
Identify and execute on opportunities to improve or establish quality processes

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in QA engineering with experience in full stack testing
Proven experience leading QA teams or QA initiatives
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

QA engineeringfull stack testingunit testingintegration testingend-to-end testingregression testingstress testingperformance testingAPI testingtest automation

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem analysisteam collaborationcritical thinkinguser perspective simulationfeedback provisioncontinuous learningprocess improvement