QA Tester – Sports Videos Streaming and Stats

QA Tester – Sports Videos Streaming and Stats

Tech Talent International Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Remote)

Tech Talent International (TTI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to startups, small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US. We are currently hiring a QA Tester – Sports Video Streaming and Stats for our consulting client, working for a major Sports Broadcasting client in Toronto.

Role: QA Tester – Sports Video Streaming and Stats

Rate Range: $75 - 85/hr C2C (40 hrs /week) - rate might be flexible for candidates with high level QA experience in streaming and sports data

Duration: 12 months + multi-year extensions

Location: Hybrid, 1-2 days in office per month (firm) Toronto, ON, Canada

We are looking for a senior-level QA tester with a balanced mix of streaming/video and sports data testing experience across mobile and web. The role has a roughly equal focus on validating the streaming experience and the accuracy of sports content and statistics.

About the role

We're looking for a QA Tester with strong experience testing live and on-demand video streaming products across mobile, web, and connected-TV platforms. You'll validate end-to-end streaming experiences for live sports, with a focus on playback quality, cross-platform consistency, and live-event scenarios. You'll also test sports experiences across various leauges such as NHL, MLB, and NBA, validating scores, schedules, standings, game details, and other sports data throughout the live-event lifecycle.

Requirements

1. Proven QA experience with live and on-demand video streaming products across mobile, web, and connected-TV platforms, including testing across real devices, OS versions, and app versions.
1. Strong understanding of streaming behaviour and experience testing under different network conditions, including video start-up, buffering/rebuffering, adaptive quality changes, seeking, restart/resume, and playback recovery.
2. Experience testing streaming features and end-to-end user journeys, including live and restarting playback, casting, alternate broadcast selections, multi-view, and other platform-specific playback experiences.
3. Experience testing authentication, subscription, and entitlement scenarios, including logged-in/out states, subscription tiers, regional restrictions, blackouts, concurrency rules, and content availability.
4. Hands-on experience testing live sports features, including scores, standings, schedules, league pages, game details, and the relationship between sports data and the live streaming experience.
5. Working knowledge of various sports leagues, such as NHL, MLB, and NBA, including league structures, season formats, and scoring rules, to effectively validate sports data during live events.
6. Experience writing clear test cases and actionable bug reports with reproduction steps, screenshots/video, logs, and relevant device, OS, app version, network, stream, and playback details.
7. Understanding of functional, regression, exploratory, smoke, release, and end-to-end testing.
8. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to distinguish between application, playback, device, network, content, and data-related issues.
9. Preferable - Basic exposure to Appium, Playwright, Selenium, or similar tools; able to run existing suites, review results, and make small updates to stable automated checks.
10. Familiarity with AI-first SDLC practices is an asset.

Preferred skills

1. Previous QA experience with a sports streaming, OTT, broadcaster, or direct-to-consumer video service.
2. Experience testing across connected-TV platforms such as Apple TV, Android TV/Google TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Tizen, in addition to mobile iOS, Android, and web.
3. Familiarity with streaming and network diagnostic tools, such as Charles Proxy, Proxyman, browser developer tools, device logs, or player diagnostic tools.
4. Understanding of streaming quality and playback indicators, including video start time, buffering/rebuffering, quality changes, playback errors, and audio/video synchronization.
5. Experience testing advanced streaming features, such as casting, alternate broadcasts, multiview, captions, alternate audio, accessibility features, and other platform-specific playback experiences.
6. Strong sports industry knowledge, particularly across leagues such as NHL, MLB, and NBA.
7. Experience supporting QA during high-profile live sporting events, where rapid issue identification, reproduction, communication, and escalation are important.