DAZN launched in 2016 bringing more live sport directly to customers than ever before through a simple, intuitive, easy to use app and a low monthly price. By 2019 DAZN were playing more hours of live sports than any other company anywhere in the world.
As QA Team Lead, you will support the on-going technical delivery of DAZN, a sports video streaming service across web, mobile and living room devices (game consoles, connected TVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top boxes).
You will be responsible for supporting our product, software development and broadcast technology teams to define the test strategy for new features and launches and report on defects across all DAZN regions and platforms (including Console, TV, Web and Mobile to approve global releases and/or new device launches.)
You will collaborate with internal teams across product, development and operations on requirement approvals and defect resolution to ensure that business objectives are met, and manufacturer requirements are delivered within the applications.
Your team
Your Team will consist of 4 QA Engineers. Playback Experience is at the core of the DAZN product and we strive for the best quality for our customers at all times whilst innovating with new technologies and approaches.
This role is based in Katowice. You will work in a hybrid model.
AS OUR NEW QA TEAM LEAD, YOU’LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO:
- Daily liaison with Playback and Advertising Product Owners and Technical Programme Managers to identify project testing tasks, attending project specific meetings and planning meetings.
- Create detailed test-cases for specific testing tasks for new features, feature improvements, new regions, new strategic initiatives, playback improvements.
- Create testing-plans, test strategies, testing accounts and testing timelines/schedules for all new project testing tasks and ensure all teams are kept up to date with clear and timely communication.
- Lead project vertical testing; responsible for the daily management of project testing, the prioritization of daily testing tasks and the main vertical QA point of contact for any major issues or blocking problems that are reported.
- Work with the UAT automation team to maximise the level of automation being conducted on new projects and minimise the drain on simple testing tasks.
- Line manage your direct report(s) efficiently to maintain standards across all areas of product testing.
YOU’LL BE SET UP FOR SUCCESS IF YOU HAVE:
- Experience in leading a QA team working on web, mobile, or TV platforms in a fast-paced agile environment.
- Strong experience working on live applications with a continuous feature & content release cycle.
- Understanding of BDD, exploratory testing, compliance testing, defect regression, smoke-testing and test planning.
- Experience of working with technical project delivery, live operations teams and delivery partners.
- Experience of bug database systems and test-tracking software such as JIRA and Test Rail.
- Leadership, negotiation and influencing skills with stakeholders.
EVEN BETTER IF YOU HAVE:
- Experience working in a broadcast, media streaming or similar environment
- Experience of writing tests using Selenium, Java or similar, using BDD Tools including Cucumber and scripting languages such as Python is desirable.
- Experience with Charles Proxy, Wire-Shark and other supporting QA Tools
BENEFITS WILL INCLUDE:
- Access to DAZN
- Annual performance-related bonus
- Private medical and dental insurance (fully financed by DAZN)
- Life assurance
- Pension scheme (Pracowniczy Program Emerytalny)
- MyBenefit platform (MultiSport and thousands of sports, culture or tourism benefits)
- Financially rewarding ‘Refer a Friend’ scheme
- Family-friendly community
- Opportunity for flexible working
- Free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind)
- Learning and development resources
- Access to our internal speaker series and events