QA Engineer New

Pixel Toys; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave

Discretionary Bonus

Private Medical Insurance

Company Pension

Death in Service

Regular socials

Staff training and development

Wellness days

Flexi-time working hours

Stock Options

Job summary

Pixel Toys in Leamington Spa is seeking an Experienced QA Technician to ensure the quality, stability, and playability of our games. You will execute functional, regression, exploratory, and feature testing, and document issues thoroughly to guide developers.

You will mentor less experienced QA members, refine testing workflows, and partner with Engineers, Designers, and Producers to prioritise defects, verify fixes, and support release readiness through the development cycle.

Qualifications

• Experience in functional, regression, exploratory and feature testing across projects.
• Ability to reproduce issues with thorough detail and document steps clearly.
• Strong collaboration with Engineers, Designers and Producers to prioritise defects.

Responsibilities

• Perform functional, regression, exploratory and feature testing across multiple platforms.
• Identify, reproduce and document defects with detailed reports.
• Conduct root cause analysis to provide actionable fixes.
• Collaborate with Engineers, Designers and Producers to verify fixes and support release readiness.
• Mentor junior QA team members and help improve QA processes and testing methods.

Skills

Attention to detail

Troubleshooting

Platform testing

Jira familiarity

Cross-functional

Tools

Jira

Job description

As an Experienced QA Technician at Pixel Toys, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality, stability, and playability of our games through thorough testing, detailed defect analysis, and cross-functional collaboration. Working closely alongside our development teams, you will execute functional, regression, exploratory, and feature-focused testing across various areas of our projects. You will serve as a dedicated advocate for the player experience, helping to ensure that every feature, mechanic, and content update runs smoothly before reaching our community. Your day-to-day will involve identifying, reproducing, and documenting issues with thorough detail, conducting root cause analysis on complex bugs to provide clear, actionable reporting for our developers. You will partner directly with Engineers, Designers, and Producers to prioritise defects, verify fixes, and ensure issues are fully resolved. Beyond daily testing, you will support release readiness activities by validating build stability, identifying potential risks for upcoming milestones, and contributing to test planning and coverage reviews across the development lifecycle. In addition to your technical testing, you will act as a supportive mentor within the QA department. You will guide and assist less experienced team members, sharing knowledge, reviewing test cases, and helping them grow their testing skills in a collaborative environment. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will actively help refine QA workflows, documentation, and testing methodologies, helping to support quality standards across the entire studio.

You will join us with experience as a QA Technician or in a similar quality assurance role, ideally within the games industry. We would love to see experience across some of the following areas: Platform Testing: Practical experience testing games across multiple platforms, particularly Android and iOS mobile devices. Development Lifecycles: A working knowledge of game development lifecycles, Agile methodologies, and live-service development environments. Defect Investigation: Effective troubleshooting skills, with the ability to investigate complex technical issues, identify root causes, and highlight potential quality risks. Test Methodologies: A practical grasp of test planning, test case design, and test execution techniques across different phases of production. QA Tools: Experience using defect-tracking and test management platforms, such as Jira, to document, manage, and track issues efficiently.

Based in the heart of Leamington Spa, Pixel Toys have spent over a decade pushing the capabilities of mobile gaming. We have developed multiple award-winning titles, including: Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realm War; and we're now excited to be exclusively working on a new game, unlike ANYTHING we've done previously! As a forward thinking and innovative studio we are always looking for new technologies and techniques to develop and use in our games and make them even more engaging experiences for our customers. We are excited to continue to grow our team and are always on the lookout for highly talented and motivated individuals, who are passionate about gaming and excited to join us on our ambitious journey!, Pixel Toys is a global developer and publisher of market leading digital games and entertainment, founded by industry veterans with a proven pedigree of delivering highly-rated multi-million selling games.

At Pixel Toys we are proud of the progressive, inclusive, and collaborative working environment we have created; a place where everyone has the opportunity to be themselves and is welcomed and valued for who they are and what they contribute. We have some fantastic benefits we offer our employees... Here are just some of them:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually
• 25 days annual leave, excluding bank holidays
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Up to 3 additional long service days (duvet days!)
• Private Medical Insurance (including optical and dental)
• Company Pension scheme
• Death in Service benefit
• Regular socials including epic summer and Christmas parties!
• Staff training and development
• Quarterly Wellness days (On-site massages and more)
• Flexi-time working hours

Recruitment selection is based on skills, experience and a good Pixel Toys mission and values fit.,

• Training Provided
• Regular team and company events
• Free drinks, fruit or food
• Flexible working
• Private Medical/Dental healthcare
• Bonus/Reward Scheme
• Stock Options