Senior QA Programmer

Epic Games; Montreal; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at an innovative company where creativity and collaboration drive success. As a QA Programmer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest quality of products by leveraging your technical expertise and automation skills. Collaborate with talented individuals across various teams to define testing strategies, identify risks, and enhance user experiences. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, utilizing both manual and technical testing techniques to deliver exceptional results. If you're passionate about quality assurance and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

100% health benefits for employees and dependents

supplemental medical coverage

dental and vision insurance

critical illness coverage

telemedicine services

life and AD&D insurance

long-term disability insurance

short-term disability coverage

retirement savings plan with employer match

mental well-being program

Qualifications

• Experience in automation with object-oriented languages like React, JavaScript, or Python.
• Hands-on experience with UI automation tools like Cypress or Playwright.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and testing coverage.
• Develop test strategies and plans while utilizing manual and technical testing skills.

Skills

React

Javascript

TypeScript

Python

Cypress

Playwright

TeamCity

GitHub

JIRA

QMetry

Job description

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.

What You'll Do

QA Programmers leverage their technical and QA expertise to collaborate with product owners, developers, and QA management to identify risks, debug issues, and help articulate quality for upcoming features/releases. You will develop and implement automation test strategies and utilize technical tooling to expand breadth and add depth to QA coverage of multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

In this role, you will

• Collaborate with various Creator Platform stakeholders (product owners, developers, QA management, and more) to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming features and releases.
• Examine technical gaps and automation initiatives between geographically distributed teams, vendors, and agencies to deliver the highest quality product.
• Build test strategies and test plans to cover multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Use a mix of manual and technical testing skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across your product to analyze quality while troubleshooting reported defects and internal issues.
• Report and track data quality, and use that data to drive conversations around product quality and development health, supporting developers before, during, and after deployments.
• Facilitate functional, qualitative, and performance testing efforts while using a mix of manual and technical testing skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across your product to analyze and report on quality.
• Work in a highly autonomous environment while working closely with designers, programmers, and production staff, using a combination of quality assurance, data analysis, and technical skills to drive appropriate testing techniques early on in development through release cycles and beyond.

What we're looking for

• Previous experience creating tools or automation using an object oriented language such as React, Javascript, TypeScript, or Python.
• Prior hands-on experience with Cypress, Playwright or other UI automation tools. Previous experience with TeamCity, Github, Github Actions, JIRA, QMetry.
• Ability to confidently collaborate with senior members on technical topics and features.
• Technical understanding of web, mobile, XR, or game technologies, including automation, functional, qualitative, and performance against consistently iterative development.
• Software or games testing experience in a fast paced environment.

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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