Description
Title : Game QA Lead
Hours : Monday – Friday, Contract, Business Hours
Department : Games Quality Assurance (GQA)
Start: July, and throughout the year
Overview
This is a truly fantastic opportunity to join a global leader within the
gaming industry and work on some of the best AAA titles in the world. You will
be home-working initially but need to be available to go to the studio if
requested. You will be working within a dedicated team of functionality
experts for a specific gaming title (AAA). You will build and drive a
comprehensive test strategy that covers testing builds for feedback and
quality (at IP standard and IP protection levels).
The ideal candidate must be passionate about the delivery of high-quality
gaming test services with a solid background and understanding across all
gaming platforms.
As a member of the global QA Leadership Team, you'll be working closely with
the wider team ensuring that project quality standards are upheld. Our ideal
candidate will be a creative leader with experience in building quality-
focused teams and delivering world-class projects. The successful candidate
will have a positive outlook, and a professional manner. They will possess the
ability to focus on tasks whilst being agile. A genuine passion for the video
games industry is a must, as well as experience of playing a diverse range of
game genres in a variety of formats and platforms.
What you'll be doing:
Acting as the primary PTW point of contact for client stakeholders and
take the lead on projects, managing cross-disciplinary teams, ensuring
that what needs done, is being done, and within the given timescales.
Responsible for test case creation and execution, bug vetting, and
ultimately the overall feedback and quality. and with collaboration with
the other QA teams, you'll share knowledge to encourage best practices
across projects.
Managing and participating in daily team briefings and coordinate with the
project stakeholders to prioritise issue fixes via regular bug triage's
whilst continually revisiting deadlines and ongoing schedules to ensure
expectations are met.
Managing time and resources to meet project deadlines and requirements and
be responsible for managing various bug-tracking databases and bug reports
from testers to ensure standards are being met.
Develop and update comprehensive test plans and detailed test cases,
verifying that checklists are understood and diligently followed by the
testers.
Recording hours performed by your testers, such as timesheet management,
absence, etc.
Requirements
All candidates must be able to work in the studio.
Experience as a Senior Tester
Team Lead experience is advantageous.
Excellent experience of Games Functionality Quality Assurance testing
experience.
Experience of working on a project from soft to post launch and the
ability to work autonomously whilst giving supervision and instruction to
your team.
You will have a systematical approach to problem solving, ideally within a
games studio.
A comprehensive knowledge of a project cycle and a games' development
process including Game Functionality QA and Certification testing services
and processes or at least an understanding
Understanding of risk management in the context of the QA process and data
driven systems to facilitate decision making
Ability to analyse difficult and sensitive problems, and recommend and
implement effective solutions
Ability to identify gaps in testing and to strategise around this.
Familiarity with defect tracking tools, workflows, test case management
tools, agile tools, and project tools
Experience on working with or playing a variety of AA/AAA titles and
genres across all platforms.
Computer literacy – particularly with Excel including working within
Microsoft suite
Robust Internet research skills.
Previous experience with using different software, applications, and
websites.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely and collaborate within
project teams.
Studio Working Criteria:
Candidates must live within 60 minutes of studio.
After your initial 3 months in the studio, you may be able to work
remotely or on a hybrid basis.