Senior QA Engineer

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At Fan Connect, we provide technology to enhance fan experience in sports and entertainment venues. Our platform is trusted by top-tier stadiums across the country - including Met Life Stadium, Lincoln Financial Field, Petco Park, Heinz Field, The Horseshoe, The Big House, The Swamp, XFINITY Center, and many more.

We’re looking for a QA Lead / Senior QA Engineer to own quality across the platform. This is a hands‑on Senior QA role with leadership responsibility.

You will:

• Own end‑to‑end quality strategy
• Build and expand test automation
• Act as the voice of quality across product and engineering
• Help define what QA looks like at Fan Connect as we grow

• Own quality across web apps, backend APIs, and connected devices
• Partner closely with engineering and product to shape testability early
• Define QA standards, test plans, and release readiness criteria
• Advocate for quality without slowing the team down

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites (Cypress, Playwright, or similar)
• Identify where automation provides the most leverage vs. manual testing
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Continuously improve test reliability and coverage

• Perform exploratory, regression, and integration testing
• Test across actual venue hardware:
  Samsung Tizen / LG webOS TVs, Bright Sign media players, etc.
• Validate integrations with sports data feeds and POS systems
• Help troubleshoot complex, real‑world issues that only show up at scale
• Mentor junior QA engineers as the team grows
• Help define future QA roles, processes, and hiring needs
• Lay the groundwork for a scalable QA function

• 5+ years of QA or software testing experience
• Strong experience with test automation (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, etc.)
• Comfortable writing and maintaining automated tests in modern web stacks
• Experience testing APIs, web apps, and integrated systems
• Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows
• Excellent communication skills - you can explain risk clearly and pragmatically
• Comfortable working in a fast‑moving product environment
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
• You’ve worked with connected devices, hardware, or IoT systems
• You’ve tested systems involving real‑time data or live events
• You’ve helped scale QA teams
• You’re a sports fan

• Your work directly impacts live stadium experiences
• You’ll have real ownership, not just test execution
• You’ll influence product quality, architecture, and process
• You’ll help shape the future QA organization

If you’re excited about working on technology in the world of live sports, apply now to be part of our team in Charlotte, NC.