QA Engineer

Black Tree Gaming Limited; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent game development company is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure the quality of their products while collaborating closely with development and design teams. This remote role requires a strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and a mindset focused on user experience. The ideal candidate should have ISTQB certification and a willingness to learn automation tools. This company promotes diversity and a positive work culture while offering a competitive salary in the range of £35,000 - £45,000 annually.

Benefits

£25 monthly allowance for video games

Private BUPA healthcare

Flexible training budget

Regular social events

Four-day work week

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and executing test plans, including with limited formal requirements.
• Foundational knowledge or exposure to automated testing tools and eagerness to develop these skills.
• Understanding of software development life cycles and active contribution during sprints.

Responsibilities

• Raise risks and identify quality gaps throughout the development lifecycle.
• Perform functional and non-functional testing on website and desktop applications.
• Provide actionable feedback to developers on feature behavior.

Skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving mindset

Strong communication skills

Curiosity

Tester's mindset

Education

ISTQB Foundation Level certification

Tools

GitLab

Playwright

Job description

QA Engineer

Location: Remote within the UK or Europe

Salary range: £35,000 - £45,000 - compensation outside the UK will be adjusted based on location.

Please note: We are unable to sponsor international visas at this time.

Our Role

We’re looking for a QA Engineer with a strong instinct for how products should behave and a natural curiosity for finding where they might break. You’ll work closely with our Development, Product, and Design teams to help us deliver a smooth, high quality experience to our users.

You don’t need to be highly technical on day one, but you do need a solid understanding of how to test effectively, how users think, and how features behave in real world scenarios. We value a thoughtful, user focused approach to testing far more than deep automation expertise. We do desire you to have the aptitude and the enthusiasm to learn automation and technical tooling, we’ll support you as you grow those skills.

At Nexus Mods, the most important qualities you can bring are a problem solving mindset, curiosity, and a positive, collaborative attitude. In this role, we expect you to be self-driven, proactive, and comfortable performing the core responsibilities of a QA Engineer as part of a fast moving, agile team.

Responsibilities

• Raise risks, identify gaps, and advocate for quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Own quality control throughout your team by helping to improve processes, aligning with product and streamlining testing.
• Perform both functional and non-functional testing in planned and exploratory formats across both our website and desktop application.
• Learn to build and maintain automated end-to-end tests as part of our CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide clear, actionable feedback to developers and contribute to discussions around feature behaviour and edge cases.

• Experience in designing, writing and executing test plans - including when formal requirements are limited and critical thinking is required to identify test scenarios.

• Understanding of software development life cycles and the ability to contribute actively throughout sprint activities.
• Some foundational knowledge or exposure to automated testing tools, plus a willingness to develop these skills.
• A tester’s mindset: curious, skeptical, and focused on real-world user impact.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate quality concerns clearly.
• ISTQB Foundation Level certification.

Bonus Skills

• Experience using GitLab for issue tracking.
• Experience testing desktop applications.
• Experience with test automation tools, ideally with Javascript/Typescript in Playwright.
• An understanding of games modding and knowledge of Nexus Mods.

• We work a 4-day week of 32 hours, with no reduction in pay.
• An allowance of £25 each month to spend on video games.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Private BUPA healthcare for you and your family.
• A very flexible training budget.
• Regular social events throughout the year. Participation is optional!

About Nexus Mods

Established in 2001, Nexus Mods is the largest video game modding platform on the internet—a household name in the PC gaming ecosystem.

• 65M+ registered members
• 750K+ mods for 3,500+ games
• 18B+ mod downloads

We’re currently focused on product modernisation, driving growth and building infrastructure for the next 10 years of community-powered modding.

How We Work

At Nexus Mods, engineers don’t disappear into silos. You’ll join a cross-functional product pod. An autonomous, outcome-focused team with everything needed to help ship real impact: Product Manager, Tech Lead, Backend/Frontend Engineers, App Developers, Designers, QAs, Community & Content.

Pods own strategy, discovery, delivery, and results. That means you’re not just handed tickets, you help shape what gets built, test ideas with users, and see your work reach millions of gamers worldwide.

Diversity and Inclusion

We celebrate diversity and want you to bring your whole self to work.

Supporting an incredible community of tens of millions of users, we thrive on engaging as many views as possible to improve our platform. We see no reason why our culture should be any different.