QA Automation Engineer

theScore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PENN Entertainment , empowers millions of sports fans through its digital media and sports betting products. Its media app ‘theScore’ is one of the most popular in North America, delivering fans highly personalized live scores, news, stats, and betting information from their favorite teams, leagues, and players. theScore’s sports betting app ‘theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino’ delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting and iCasino experience. theScore Bet is currently live in the Company's home province of Ontario. theScore also creates and distributes innovative digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.

Work-term: January 6, 2025 - August 22, 2025

Length of Position: minimum 8-months required

Number of Openings: 4

theScore is looking for an individual to fill a QA Automation Engineer, Co-op position. Our ideal candidate will have some knowledge of best practices when it comes to mobile & web testing, and a solid background of software development concepts.

About the Work:

• Develop and maintain automation frameworks for API, web and native mobile apps on Android & iOS platforms
• Investigate and fix test failures using root cause analysis during maintenance and planning efforts
• Work with feature teams to develop an automated test strategy for new features being delivered and implement the strategy
• Work with the QA Automation team to raise concerns or patterns observed with test failures to raise awareness and resolve issues quickly
• Identify, record, and track bugs
• Participate in code reviews and pair programming sessions with other Automation Engineers
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
• Other duties as required

About You:

• Knowledge of SDLC and software development concepts
• Strong problem solving and coding ability in an OOP language
• Foundational knowledge of testing concepts and a testing mindset
• Experience with developing or testing REST APIs
• Experience using version control (Git) and testing frameworks (Junit, TestNG)
• Experience with GraphQL is a plus
• Experience testing web or mobile apps is a plus
• Experience with continuous integration (Jenkins, CircleCI) is a plus
• Experience and comfort with bash scripting is a plus
• Experience using Xcode/Android Studio is a plus
• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA) and defect workflow is a plus

What We Offer:

• Fun, relaxed work environment
• A voice. We're dedicated to open communication which empowers our employees to drive the company's culture
• A company that encourages a culture of inclusion and diversity
• Opportunity to work on large scale consumer-facing applications with millions of users
• Career growth. Mentorship from some of the brightest people in the industry

Candidates residing in Ontario requiring special accommodation can email accessibilityoffice@thescore.com

theScore is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.