QA Lead Gaming
Talentgrator • Czechia
No Relocation
Posted: March 11, 2026
Job Description
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
- 5+ years of experience in software testing, including 1–2 years in a QA lead or senior role
- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, testing types, and best practices
- Experience managing QA teams and mentoring manual testers
- Ability to plan and execute test strategies for complex systems
- Experience working with products built on microservice or distributed architectures
- Good communication skills; able to work with developers, PMs, designers, and other stakeholders
- Intermediate or higher level of English (B1+)
Additional Content
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
- 5+ years of experience in software testing, including 1–2 years in a QA lead or senior role
- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, testing types, and best practices
- Experience managing QA teams and mentoring manual testers
- Ability to plan and execute test strategies for complex systems
- Experience working with products built on microservice or distributed architectures
- Good communication skills; able to work with developers, PMs, designers, and other stakeholders
- Intermediate or higher level of English (B1+)