Job description
ABOUT FANDUEL
FanDuel Group (“FanDuel”) is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media.
FanDuel has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and 28 retail locations. FanDuel is based in New York with offices in New Jersey, Georgia, California, Oregon, Canada and Scotland.
Its networks FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer over-the-top platforms.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, the world’s largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).
THE ROSTER
At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.
THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it
FanDuel is looking for an experienced Quality Analyst with a deep understanding of Quality in the Software Development Life Cycle. Quality at FanDuel is a community effort and as an advocate of Quality, you will work with various teams to promote best practices and processes that will deliver the best experience for our customers. You will contribute to Quality by influencing the testing process that suits a project’s need and enabling the engineering team members to be active participants in that process.
You will use your experience to help implement testing strategies, approaches, and coordinate a team-wide approach towards Quality. Your innovation will be fostered in a culture that constantly seeks to improve and originate new ideas that aim to make software testing easier and more efficient.
THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play
Quickly come up to speed on FanDuel Sportsbook and how it relates to other product lines.
Work with engineering teams to determine best test strategies. (e.g., direct testing, testing reviews and coaching, identify any automation that may be relevant to run.)
Enable engineering teams to self-serve as much as possible.
Constantly strive for more efficient and effective quality procedures, including analyzing trends around defects and feature areas.
Be an advocate for Quality through analyzing risks, test planning, test tracking, and test run results.
Contribute to test cases and documentation.
Participate in testing moderately complex or high-risk software developments.
Communicate test strategy and progress to various stake holders, (e.g., engineering managers, engineers, product managers, and product owners)
Work with the wider Quality Engineering org to improve services offerings to engineering in order to facilitate ease and speed of testing.
Identify areas of improvement as they relate to Software Quality. (e.g., new automation and testing strategies to add to backlog)
Work with team to assess code coverage by both automated and manual run tests.
THE STATS
What we’re looking for in our next teammate
Ability to foster effective communication across the team and promote inclusive meeting culture.
Strong soft skills and ability to communicate up, down and across the team.
Strong sense of when to escalate issues to the proper level.
Strong communicator with ability to break down and convey technical concepts
Strong analytical skills that translate into test case writing and documentation.
Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to test areas.
Proficient in various testing techniques (e.g., edge case, exploratory, blackbox, whitebox)
Ability to analyze and convey quality risks for new and existing features
Ability to prioritize test conditions and features to be tested
Experience with Mobile and Native App Testing with a working knowledge of underlying technologies and how they interact.
Experience with testing the API layer through either manual or automated calls; experience with Postman preferred
Manage testing process for small to medium sized projects, including providing status through meetings and/or Jira or similar tool.
Conceptual knowledge of automation testing techniques (e.g., frontend, backend, contract, api)
Experience using object-oriented programming languages, with a strong preference of JavaScript.
PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right
Interesting work - Working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons.
A sense of achievement - Our teams own the outcome. When that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created.
Personal development – We strive to create clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level and give our employees the tools they need to learn, develop, and become leaders.
Belonging - Everyone at FanDuel supports one another: we win together, make mistakes together to learn from them and to focus on the future, and have lots of fun doing it.
Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work.
Great financial package- Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy, along with a number of other benefits.
FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.
