Senior Testing Engineer

Title:   Senior Testing Engineer (Sparks) (Remote) Location: Category: Software Development Job Type: Full-Time   Job Desc: Social Discovery Group 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  in social discovery technology startups around the world.  Our 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, Trkiye, Latvia and many others. We are currently looking for a  Senior Testing Engineer to participate in the development of the  Sparks coin service, which is a crucial component of our company’s products. Sparks – a novel currency across our company’s products. It can be earned through socially significant actions on the site, and various gamification mechanics will be integrated, enhancing user engagement. This currency will eventually evolve into a crypto-token that can be traded on the exchange.   Your main tasks will be:

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.