QA Lead (m/w/d)

Kalypso Media Group; Darmstadt; Vor Ort; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Game discounts

Hybrid work options

Zusammenfassung

Kalypso Media Group in Darmstadt is seeking a QA Lead (m/f/d) to enhance their team. The role involves leading a QA team, ensuring quality in game development, and actively participating in testing processes. Candidates should have experience with 3+ game titles, test cycles, and understanding certification processes.

Kalypso offers hybrid work options and benefits like game discounts in a diverse work environment.

Qualifikationen

• Experienced in the test process and test cycles for video games.
• Worked on the quality assurance of 3+ shipped game titles.
• Good understanding of the certification processes for consoles.

Aufgaben

• Lead a QA team and guide them in building and executing test cases.
• Conduct meetings and employee appraisals.
• Define Testcases syncing with all departments and stakeholders.
• Support test phases with active testing.
• Drive actions to achieve quality and a bug-free game.
• Improve skills of QA team members continuously.
• Make and distribute builds for various purposes.
• Align with external QA Studios on practices and workflows.

Kenntnisse

Test process and test cycles experience

Quality assurance on 3+ shipped game titles

Understanding of certification processes

Experience with UE5 and Perforce

Reading and analyzing crash logs

Writing test cases and test plans

Automated testing

Understanding of Scrum framework

Knowledge in Release Management

Structured and organized

Jobbeschreibung

Kalypso Media Group is an independent publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software with more than 200 employees at a total of ten locations in Germany, England, France, the USA and Japan. Five of the Group's development studios in Germany and France, together with other international games developers, ensure a steady stream of new computer and video games for all modern premium platforms, such as the world-famous "Tropico" series, "Commandos" and "Railway Empire".

To strengthen our team at our subsidiary Claymore Game Studios GmbH in Darmstadt (Germany), we are looking for a QA Lead (m/f/d) to start as soon as possible.

Qualification

• Experienced in the test process and test cycles for video games
• Worked on the quality assurance of 3+ shipped game titles
• Good understanding of the certification processes for consoles and stores
• Able to work with UE5 in an environment using Perforce and Horde
• Good technical understanding of the development pipeline and target platforms
• Well versed in reading out and analyzing crash logs
• Experience in writing test cases and test plans
• Experience with automated testing
• Good understanding of the Scrum framework and what it means to work agile
• Knowledge in Release Management: Build creation, distribution, testing and release on target platform
• Very well structured, thorough and organized person

Responsibilities

• Lead a QA team and guide them in building and executing the right QA test cases
• Conduct all relevant meetings, like QA stand-up, 1on1s and regular employee appraisals
• Define Testcases for QA to work on by syncing with all departments as well as all stakeholders to gather all the needs of the team as well as the project quality needs
• Support the test phases with own active testing
• Work self-driven by knowing what is the most important action to achieve a certain quality and a bug free game
• Improve the skillset and abilities of the QA team members constantly
• Making builds and distributing them for external and internal purposes
• Align with external QA Studios on best practices and our workflows and ticket requirements

Join Kalypso Group's team within the global network of 200+ experts across 10 locations. Enjoy hybrid work options, perks like game discounts, and the opportunity to publish hits that reach worldwide audiences. Kalypso values diversity and equal opportunity.