Automated QA Engineer

At Game Lounge, we lead the way in iGaming affiliate marketing by combining innovation with expertise. Since 2011, we’ve grown from a small team in Malta to a global organization operating 131 brands in 39 countries, connecting over 10,000 users daily to 350+ partners. 

Our success is driven by our people—a talented, ambitious team that values collaboration, growth, and impact. Here, your ideas matter, and your contributions are celebrated. We believe in empowering every team member to reach their potential, offering an environment where innovation thrives and brilliance is rewarded.

Recognized as iGaming Idol’s Employer of the Year 2021, Business Leaders’ Employer of Choice of the Years 2021-2022, Best Affiliate Company of the Year 2025 by Malta’s Gaming Excellence Award, Casino Affiliate of the year 2025 by SBC’s Affiliate Leaders Awards , we are committed to fostering a workplace where you can grow both professionally and personally.

If you’re ready to take your career to the next level, join us in transforming iGaming.

Why Game Lounge?

We’re not just about what we do, but how we do it—and that starts with our people. When you join Game Lounge, you’ll become part of a team that believes in: 

Professional growth: Advance your career with learning opportunities, mentorship, and room to innovate.

Nurturing talent: Your ideas are valued and your contributions make an impact. 

Recognition: Celebrate milestones and be rewarded for your achievements. 

A supportive culture: Thrive in an environment built on collaboration, transparency, and work-life balance. 

Global opportunities: Join a team that spans continents, offering diverse perspectives and career paths.

Here’s what we’re looking for: 

We’re seeking curious, driven individuals who are ready to challenge the status quo and make a meaningful impact. If you: 

• Are excited by the challenge of solving complex problems and bringing innovative ideas to life.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Value open communication and continuous learning.
• Are ambitious, goal-oriented, and passionate about achieving brilliance.

…then Game Lounge could be your next big opportunity. 

We are looking for a pragmatic Automated QA Engineer to join our team. The primary goal of this role is to build and maintain a reliable automated testing suite for our WordPress-based digital products. We are not looking for someone to automate "everything," but rather someone who understands what brings value to automate and has the technical skill to execute it using Playwright.

You will be working closely with developers and product managers to ensure our WordPress sites are stable, performant, and bug-free before deployment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build Automation: Design, write, and maintain end-to-end (E2E) test scripts using Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript).
• WordPress Testing: Focus specifically on the quirks and complexities of WordPress environments, including plugin compatibility, theme updates, and custom block validation.
• Pipeline Integration: Integrate your Playwright tests into our CI/CD pipelines (e.g., github,  Octopus Deploy, AWS) to ensure checks run on every pull request.
• Manual Testing: Perform manual checks when automation isn’t feasible or efficient (e.g., visual layout inspections or one-off edge cases).
• API Testing: Design, execute, and maintain API tests using Postman to validate backend services, integrations, and data flows supporting WordPress features.
• Bug Reporting: Write clear, reproducible bug reports with steps, screenshots, and logs.
• Maintenance: Regularly refactor tests to reduce flakiness. We value stable tests over a high volume of flaky ones.

The ideal candidate should:

• Automated Testing Experience: 3+ years of experience in automated QA, with at least 1 year specifically using Playwright.
• Manual Testing Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in manual web testing, including test case design and execution using TestRail, cross-browser and cross-device testing with BrowserStack, API testing with Postman, and functional, regression, and exploratory testing of web applications.
• Strong WordPress Knowledge: You aren’t just testing a generic web app; you understand the WP ecosystem (themes, plugins, hooks, database structure and the block editor/Gutenberg).
• Coding Skills: Strong proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript. You should be comfortable writing clean, reusable code, not just recording scripts.
• Version Control: Solid understanding of Git (branching, pull requests, resolving conflicts).
• Objectivity: You know that 100% automation is a myth. You can prioritize critical paths (checkout flows, login, lead forms) over cosmetic details.

"Nice to Haves" (Not Dealbreakers)

• Experience with PHP (to understand the WordPress backend better).
• Experience with visual regression testing tools (e.g., Percy, BackstopJS, Playwright Visual Comparisons ).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) for setting up local test environments.

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: HTML, SCSS, JS (React for blocks)
• Backend: PHP, MySQL
• CMS: WordPress (Custom Themes/Plugins)
• Automation: Playwright (TypeScript)
• CI/CD: (Octopus Deploy, AWS)

How you’ll work:

• Monday to Friday - 40 hours per week

What you’ll get:

• Private Health Insurance
• Car Park Space
• Annual Performance Bonus
• Wellness Allowance
• Exciting company events throughout the year
• 4 day work week during the months of April, July and August.

Meet the team: 

https://www.gamelounge.com/department/development

Interested candidates should submit their CV in English through the link provided.

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If that doesn’t sound like you, but you’re still interested in starting a career with Game Lounge, check out the careers page 👉🏼 https://www.gamelounge.com/work-with-us