Senior Qa Engineer (Virtual Gifts)

Social Discovery Group (https://socialdiscoverygroup.com/about-us)is the world's largest group of social discovery companies which unites more than 50 brands. For more than 20 years, we have been creating premium international dating services and social discovery apps with a focus on video streaming, AI technologies, entertainment, and game mechanics. Our product portfolio includes Dating.com, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, and many others. The products are already used by more than 500 million users in 150 countries around the world.

SDG Invests (https://socialdiscoverygroup.com/investments) in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments (https://socialdiscoverygroup.com/investments) include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, Wildly, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Tubit, Woebot, BamBam, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 800 professionals works all over the world. Our international team of like-minded people and professionals solves ambitious daily tasks and creates truly global products. We value focusing on results, a proactive approach, and we are always looking for new and unconventional ideas.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Poland, Israel, Türkiye, Latvia and many others.

We are currently looking for a Senior QA Engineer to participate in the development of the Virtual Gifts service, which is a crucial component of our company's products.

Virtual gifts are a great way to grab attention on dating.com. This is the key service of the holding's flagship product. over 3 years, the service began to bring 15% of the operating business revenue and still contains the potential for multiple growth. Since 2022, the service has a dedicated team that focuses on the task of maximizing service customization for the needs of each individual client, so that the service becomes relevant for all users, regardless of their gender, age, region, income level or preferences on the site.

Your main tasks will be:

• Customization of the service according to the needs of each client. at the endpoint, we want each user to receive only the set of services that he needs;
• Optimization of visual display of service components;
• Gamification of the process of using the product, creation and embedding of game cycles;
• Separation of the service into a separate module and integration with other products of the holding;
• Conducting usability testing of the service;
• Automation of checking new features (optional requirement);
• Optimization of testing processes to increase the speed of checks.

Required hard skills:

• Understanding the principles of agile software development and the purpose of testing in this process. We are building Continuous Delivery, so you need to at least imagine what it is and how it is achieved;
• Ability to work in a distributed team. Employees of the company are located in several cities in different countries. Under such circumstances, it is extremely important to be able to establish communications even with those people who are at a very great distance from you;
• Experience in web, mobile and API testing;
• Ability to write test documentation:
  
  • test cases;
  • checklists;
  • test plans;
  • competently describe, rank the detected defects according to their importance;
• Technology stack:
  
  • Understanding the work of the 'Client-Server' architecture;
  • Jira + Confluence;
  • Testrail;
  • MS SQL Server;
  • Fiddler/Charles;
  • Devtools.

Nice to have hard skills:

• Kibana;
• RabbitMQ;
• WebSocket;
• Docker;
• Redis;
• Postman;
• Jenkins.

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• Health benefits. If you are not eligible for Corporate Medical Insurance, the company will compensate up to $1000 gross per year per employee according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance, or on doctor's fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in the locations where we have offices or co-working. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.

Sounds good? Join us now!