Senior QA Analyst - Fixed-Term Contract

Rebellion; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days holidays + Christmas closure (

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance, Income Protection & 0%

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Mental Health & Wellbeing Support

Job summary

Rebellion is seeking a Senior QA Analyst for a maternity leave cover contract. You will be onsite at our Oxford, Warwick or Runcorn studios, leading QA efforts to ensure games run smoothly for every player.

As a Senior QA Analyst, you’ll create robust test plans, hunt risks early, and think systemically about how features interact across game systems. You’ll mentor the squad, communicate clearly with designers, devs and production, and raise the bar on quality.

Qualifications

• Has proven QA experience in the world of games.
• Can craft detailed test plans without a guide.
• Thinks about edge cases, system interactions, and risk, not just golden paths.
• Mentors others, keeps the team sharp.

Responsibilities

• Write robust test plans for every feature - cover all paths, edge cases, and sneaky combos.
• Hunt down risks before they hit production - you know where things can break, and you find things and get them fixed before anyone notices.
• Think systemically - features don’t exist in a vacuum, you can visualize how everything interacts across the game and its systems.
• Lead and mentor the squad - share your knowledge and experience with the team, be a resource, help the team level up and keep our processes sharp.
• Communicate like a pro - designers, devs, and production rely on you to spot problems and explain them clearly.

Skills

QA in games

Test planning

Edge case analysis

Mentoring team

Job description

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We’re not just looking for testers, we’re looking for Senior QA Analysts - players who are also masters of game quality!

As a Senior QA Analyst, you don’t just click buttons, you see the whole map, anticipate every trap, and make sure the team ships games that run smoothly for every player.

What you’ll do:

• Write robust test plans for every feature - cover all paths, edge cases, and sneaky combos...no bugs can slip through the test runs.
• Hunt down risks before they hit production - you know where things can break, and you find things and get them fixed before anyone notices.
• Think systemically - features don’t exist in a vacuum, you can visualize how everything interacts across the game and its systems.
• Lead and mentor the squad - share your knowledge and experience with the team, be a resource, help the team level up and keep our processes sharp.
• Communicate like a pro - designers, devs, and production rely on you to spot problems and explain them clearly.

We’re looking for someone that:

• Has proven QA experience in the world of games.
• Can craft detailed test plans without a guide.
• Thinks about edge cases, system interactions, and risk, not just golden paths.
• Mentors others, keeps the team sharp.

This is a fixed-term contract position to provide maternity leave cover for the QA team. The end date for this contract will be August 2027. This is an onsite role which can be based at any of our Oxford, Warwick or Runcorn studios, each offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success.

We’relooking for someone that:

• Has proven QA experience in the world of games.
• Can craft detailed test plans without a guide.
• Thinks about edge cases, system interactions, and risk, not just golden paths.
• Mentorsothers, keeps the team sharp.

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years - one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Right to Work Statement

This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

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