Competitive – discussed at interview. QA Engineer – Sports Betting in Sofia, Bulgaria.

What you'll actually take home

Competitive – discussed at interview

Bulgaria applies a flat 10% income tax, and living costs in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna run well below Western European levels — the take-home goes considerably further than the headline suggests.

Everything else in the package

You also get opportunity to work on complex real-time sports betting and iGaming products, exposure to high-traffic platforms and challenging QA scenarios, combination of manual and automated testing responsibilities, opportunity to influence QA processes, automation strategy, and testing standards, modern technology stack and engineering-focused environment, collaboration with experienced international, engineering, Product, and DevOps teams, and high level of ownership over product quality and release readiness.

The job itself

CloserHire is partnering with a fast-growing international technology company within the sports betting and iGaming industry to recruit a QA Engineer for their team in Sofia, Bulgaria. This role will focus on ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of high-traffic sports betting products. You will work closely with developers, product teams, and other QA professionals to test complex platforms, identify issues before they reach production, and continuously improve testing processes

Day to day that means design, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases, test web applications, APIs, backend services, and integrations across the sports betting platform, perform functional, regression, integration, smoke, and end-to-end testing, identify, document, and track software defects through to resolution, validate new features against functional and technical requirements, perform API testing and verify data flows between different services and systems, and test real-time functionality and platform behaviour during high-volume sporting events.

What you need to bring

• Ability to clearly document and communicate defects and technical issues
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience testing web-based applications and distributed systems Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies
• Experience with SQL and validating data within relational databases Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Jira, and modern development workflows
• Good understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Python, or another programming/scripting language
• Experience testing REST APIs using tools such as Postman or similar
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar

Life in Bulgaria

A flat 10% income tax and some of the lowest living costs in the EU — your salary stretches a long way.

Next steps

• Send us your CV and we will come back to you either way
• A relaxed 30-minute conversation to check the role genuinely fits
• The company's own interview stage
• Offer and contract — we stay involved through paperwork and arrival

Around five weeks from applying to your first day on the ground.

CloserHire recruits for this role on behalf of our client. We are an equal-opportunity recruiter and consider every applicant on ability alone.