QA Lead Gaming

Technical Skills: • Strong knowledge of test design techniques: equivalence classes, boundary value analysis, etc. • Clear understanding of bug lifecycle and defect management process • Experience in different testing types: functional, integration, regression, smoke, acceptance • Skilled in writing test cases, checklists, and test plans • Experience with requirement analysis (Confluence, Figma, etc.) • Solid experience in manual API testing using tools like Postman or Swagger • Understanding of event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka or message queues) and API contract testing • Ability to validate data flows between services and verify synchronization consistency • Familiarity with:   - Test case management tools (TestRail, Zephyr, Xray)   - Issue trackers (e.g. Jira)   - Documentation tools (Confluence, Google Docs) • Experience analyzing database schemas and writing SQL queries for validation of transactional data • Knowledge of permissions, localization, and configuration-driven features testing • Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and audit tools (e.g. Kibana, Grafana, ELK) • Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

Leadership & Ownership: • Able to define and own QA scope and test strategy for projects • Can estimate testing efforts and manage QA team capacity • Accountable for product quality from requirements to release • Active participation in grooming, planning, and retrospectives • Identifies quality risks and drives process improvements • Experience with incident analysis or production bug triage • Experience decomposing unclear requirements and clarifying acceptance criteria • Skill in prioritizing test coverage by criticality • Experience leading distributed QA teams across multiple domains or services • Collaboration experience with analysts and technical writers to maintain up-to-date documentation

Optional but Strong Plus: • Experience testing gaming or transactional systems (sessions, jackpots, balances, etc.) • Understanding of audit trails and transactional integrity validation • Experience testing caching, performance, and load scenarios for API-based systems • Background in gaming or social casino products