Job Posting Title
Software QA Team Lead
Summary
Are you ready for the exciting next step in your career? Are you a great Software QA Team Lead with a passion for quality and a solid grasp of how to both test software and help lead a team to test that software? If you answered yes to those questions, then Aristocrat is the place for you!
We are actively seeking a Software QA Team Lead with a strong passion for technology and the ability to work well with a team of high caliber professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. The Digital Game Services team, headquartered in the Austin Aristocrat office, is responsible for creating the tools that enable our studios to bring social casino games to the web and mobile platforms.
As a Software QA Team Lead with you will have a high-profile role in the Austin DGS QA group, working closely with the QA manager, development managers, project managers and other team members to ensure comprehensive testing and rapid delivery of features, bug fixes, and releases within established timelines to external teams and regulatory bodies.
This position will give you the opportunity to be involved with a broad range of technologies underpinning our world class games, including TypeScript, JavaScript, node.js, npm, GCP, MongoDB, SDK standards, Android, iOS, Unity and HTML 5.
What you'll do

• Identifying risks and raising risks to the QA manager.
• Creating and assigning QA tasks, monitoring work and managing QA team members, in coordination with the QA manager.
• Ensuring QA testing is performed accurately and completely by reviewing/vetting all test results.
• Reviewing and vetting all incoming bugs to understand individual issues and ensure bugs are written in a clear, correct and complete manner.
• Ensuring QA team member tasks are making progress during a Sprint, will be finished within a Sprint as appropriate and are executed well.
• Willing and able to suddenly pivot from current task to higher priority issues as they come in, which can be a separate project needing progress, an identified gap in testing needing coverage, a production issue or other items. This aspect of the position needs an individual with mental hardiness who is able to change direction suddenly and still keep their momentum. (If you can't do this part, you don't want this job.)
• Establishing a good rapport and liaising with QA teammates in India to provide support and to help coordinate workload and priorities. Keeping in daily contact with them via email and Slack, discussing and forwarding their concerns, creating and assigning their Test Passes. Willing to run early morning weekly meetings (typically 3+ / week).
• Producing polished project and test status summaries, including visual representation of information, for the QA manager.
• Reviewing and/or rewriting test plans.
• Reviewing and/or rewriting manual test cases.
• Running feature team meetings.
• Ensuring QA team verifies just-fixed bugs and just-implemented features from local Dev team to ensure that still-occurring bugs are quickly returned to local Dev team and that newly implemented features have issues rapidly identified.
• Ensuring team provides timely documentation of test tools, for QA audience, dev audience or business audience.
• Ensuring Testrail manual test cases have accurate step-by-step details. All new features are covered in comprehensive manual test cases. All updated features result in manual test cases being updated to stay accurate. Removed features have associated manual test cases removed.
• Creating and maintaining project test approach/strategies.
• Working closely with other internal and international company's QA personnel on testing, features and app delivery.
• Participating in department or QA team building events, (typically every 2 months, approximately 2 - 7 pm).

What we're looking for

• Technically oriented QA professional with 6+ years of experience.
• 3 years of management experience (can be part of overall 6 year's experience. Team leads who had direct reports qualify).
• Highly technical - understands programming concepts, programming terminology and comfortable learning new technology quickly.
• Excellent time management, planning and organization skills and ability to prioritize well.
• Able to accurately estimate, meet deadlines/provide deliverables on time.
• Knowledge of quality assurance, software testing and understanding of SDLC.
• SCRUM/Agile workplace experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills leveraging emotional intelligence and ability to work in a collaborative cross-functional team.
• Able to work effectively when working independently, as needed.
• Experience working with API's, Android, iOS, npm.
• Familiarity with TypeScript, JavaScript, node.js, SDK standards, Unity, HTML 5, web sockets, web services, MongoDB, GCP, Visual Studio.
• Experience using Subversion, GitHub, Jenkins, Teamcity, Jira Cloud, Confluence, Gamebench performance software, Slack, MS Teams.

Focused on local Austin candidates.
Why Aristocrat?

• World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
• Robust benefits package
• Global career opportunities

Our Values

• All about the Player
• Talent Unleashed
• Collective Brilliance
• Good Business Good Citizen

The US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.