Join the Exciting Journey at tombola! 🚀

Are you ready to be a part of something extraordinary? As tombola continues its remarkable growth, we're on the hunt for a Tester within our Game Studio team.

Find your bounce at tombola! 🎱

At tombola, we're not just another player in the game; we're the creators of the game. Our approach is revolutionary – we craft every element of our software in-house, from concept to execution. We take pride in the ingenuity of our developers and designers, united by their passion for pushing boundaries and shaping the future.

It’s not just our digital bingo balls that have loads of bounce. Our people do, too. Whatever your role, it’s the kind of place that can put a spring in your step.

Whether you're developing game mechanics, keeping our players safe, testing our products or sponsoring one of the UK's biggest TV shows, how high and how far you bounce really is up to you.

What do we offer? 💰

We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing! 

As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more. 

You can find out more about our benefits and what it's like to work for us here.

Sounds great! What will I be doing? 🔎

As a Mid-Level Software Tester at tombola, you will focus on the testing of tombola’s web, mobile, and app platforms across multiple territories. Your work will involve a mix of manual and automated testing. While hands on experience is important, having an ISTQB Foundation Level Certification is preferred to demonstrate your knowledge of testing principles.

What will I be doing? (But in bullet points) 🧐

• Predominantly team-level, delivering primarily through others and cross division (working with other departments); with experience, collaborating with peers in other teams as part of your division. 
• Enabling the software development team to deliver high quality games with reduced development times due to reduction in defects and bugs.
• Impact level is dictated by mastery of skills, mastery of techniques and domain knowledge.
• Game Development Cycle
• Working with product managers to review the game requirements
• Generate user stories and test cases
• Component testing, working with developers on tasks
• Ongoing collaboration with developers and product managers.
• Facilitate wider user testing and triage issues
• Compliance and regulatory testing as scoped out by the senior testers.
• Integration and regression testing
• UAT
• Component testing of BAU work (live games/game improvements/fixes)
• Execute test scripts and document bugs
• General exploratory testing, looking for areas the user experience differs from what is expected. 
• Monitoring the test board in Jira 
• Compatibility testing of our products on upcoming major OS updates

What does "good" look like for us? 😇

Necessary Skills

• Reasonable domain knowledge of game behaviours, business rules, and regulatory requirements

• Surface level knowledge of software development life cycles

• Surface level knowledge of software development methodologies

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Basic ability to define test specification from game requirements.

• Ability to identify problems and initially investigate at root cause level. 

• Critical thinking skills 

• Analytical skills 

• Troubleshooting skills 

• Excellent communicator - comfortable working closely with developers, product, infra, leads, and all management 

• Risk based applied mentality to a task or scenario 

Desirable Skills

• ISTQB foundation

• Knowledge of defect management tools.

• Basic JavaScript understanding

• Experience in automation

• Understanding of each role within the business  

• Understanding of Agile process   

• Understanding of deployment pipelines  

• Testcase management tool experience  

• Process document writing  

At tombola we know that our differences make us stronger and that thinking differently is key to long term success. We work hard to create a culture of inclusivity where everyone can celebrate our Free to be me value. We are committed to creating opportunities for everyone here at tombola, we welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage individuals to apply, even if you don’t meet every requirement.