Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

📱 Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

📍 Chicago, IL | 🏢 Hybrid | 💼 Full-Time

At Sprocket Sports, we are currently seeking a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer to join our Team. The ideal candidate has a passion for youth sports and creating best-in-class software applications that will be used by thousands of youth sports club administrators, coaches, parents and players.

About Sprocket

Sprocket Sports is a fast-growing technology company based in Chicago and a national leader in the youth sports space. Our software and services help clubs streamline operations, reduce costs, and grow faster, so they can focus on what really matters: kids playing sports. We’re also proud to be a certified Great Place to Work® 2024, with a culture that balances high standards, accountability, and fun.

Role Summary:

Sprocket Sports is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to take ownership of quality across our youth sports club management platform. This role is critical in ensuring a reliable, scalable, and high-quality experience across web, Android, and iOS applications. You will lead the design and expansion of our automated testing strategy, build robust test infrastructure, and act as the bridge between product requirements and test coverage. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building systems, improving developer workflows, and driving quality across the entire SDLC.

Our platform powers youth sports organizations—where reliability directly impacts real families, teams, and communities. Quality isn’t optional. This role ensures we deliver a dependable, seamless experience across every device and user touchpoint.

Responsibilities:

• Own and expand the end-to-end automated testing strategy
• Build and maintain a scalable, reliable test automation framework
• Establish and enforce quality gates within CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure high test coverage across web and mobile platforms
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure features are testable and well-validated
• Write and maintain Playwright E2E tests for web and mobile web
• Expand Appium-based test coverage for native mobile interactions
• Set up, optimize, and maintain CI/CD test pipelines in Azure DevOps
• Review pull requests for testability and instrumentation (e.g., data-testid usage)
• Triage test failures and determine root cause:
• Product bug vs. flaky test vs. environment issue
• Maintain and evolve Page Object Models and test fixtures
• Perform exploratory testing on new features and releases
• Implement and maintain visual regression testing
• Create high-quality bug reports with clear reproduction steps and evidence
• Leverage AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Playwright Codegen/MCP) to accelerate test development
• Own and improve test data strategy:
• Seed data
• API mocking
• Test environments

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in test automation or QA engineering
• Hands-on experience with Playwright
• Proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Experience testing modern web applications (Angular or similar frameworks)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineering and product teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Appium or mobile test automation
• Familiarity with Ionic or hybrid mobile apps
• Experience testing .NET-based backends
• Knowledge of Azure and Azure DevOps pipelines
• Experience with visual regression tools
• Exposure to test data management and environment orchestration
• Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related field.
• Strong attention to detail and accountability.

Why Join Us?

✅ Certified Great Place to Work® 2024

🤝 Mission-driven team with a big vision

🚀 Fast-growing startup with room to grow

💼 Competitive salary + equity

📊 401(k) with company match

🩺 Comprehensive medical and dental

🎉 A culture built on Higher Standards, Greater Accountability, and More Fun

The expected base salary range for this role is $110,000 - $140,000 annually, with additional bonus and equity opportunities. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.