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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience testing authentication, subscription, and entitlement scenarios, including logged-in/out states, subscription tiers, regional restrictions, blackouts, concurrency rules, and content availability.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Understanding of functional, regression, exploratory, smoke, release, and end-to-end testing.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to distinguish between application, playback, device, network, content, and data-related issues.
- 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.
- Familiarity with AI-first SDLC practices is an asset.
Preferred skills
- Previous QA experience with a sports streaming, OTT, broadcaster, or direct-to-consumer video service.
- 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.
- Familiarity with streaming and network diagnostic tools, such as Charles Proxy, Proxyman, browser developer tools, device logs, or player diagnostic tools.
- Understanding of streaming quality and playback indicators, including video start time, buffering/rebuffering, quality changes, playback errors, and audio/video synchronization.
- Experience testing advanced streaming features, such as casting, alternate broadcasts, multiview, captions, alternate audio, accessibility features, and other platform-specific playback experiences.
- Strong sports industry knowledge, particularly across leagues such as NHL, MLB, and NBA.
- Experience supporting QA during high-profile live sporting events, where rapid issue identification, reproduction, communication, and escalation are important.
