QA Engineer [Fixed Term]

Avalanchestudios; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Avalanche Studios Group is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to own the quality of the Hunter: Call of the Wild live title. You will manage test passes, investigate complex issues, and coordinate with developers to uphold quality targets with every release.

Based in Stockholm, you’ll work in our Live Operations QA, collaborating across teams to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes as new content ships. Hybrid model requiring office presence on most release weeks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Video Games Quality Assurance.
• Experience as embedded QA within a development team.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Knowledge of bug writing and bug tracking software.
• Experience with testing tools and live product(s) with a frequent release cycle.
• Console and PC testing experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Production to ensure coverage and risk management across a release cycle.
• Investigate, triage, prioritize, and manage bugs.
• Plan and execute regression and release readiness testing.
• Coordinate across disciplines to drive quality results.

Skills

QA experience

Bug tracking

Testing tools

Console testing

PC testing

Communication skills

English proficiency

Release cycles

Live operations

Team collaboration

Job description

Avalanche Studios Group are looking for a skilled QA Engineer for our successful title theHunter: Call of the Wild.

As Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for managing the holistic quality of a robust, live title, maintaining and executing test passes, investigating complex and confounding issues, and coordinating with developers across all disciplines to ensure that maintain our quality targets with every release.

The role is in our Live Operations QA, which focuses on delivering the entire game on time and at quality to all the various folks who depend on it.

We need a passionate and dynamic team member, whose attitude is backed up by their experience in QA helping to create great quality games, having worked as an experienced QA Engineer on at least one released project.

What you'll do

• Collaborating with Production to ensure satisfactory coverage and risk management across an entire release cycle.
• Investigating, triaging, prioritizing, and managing bugs.
• Planning and executing regression testing and release readiness testing.
• Coordinating across disciplines and teams to drive quality results.

Who you are

• 5+ years experience in Video Games Quality Assurance (preferable experience from shipping AA or AAA games).
• Experience from working as embedded QA within a development team.
• Excellent communication skills – must possess excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Knowledge of bug writing and bug tracking software.
• Experience with testing tools and live product(s) with a frequent release cycle.
• Console & PC testing experience.

Desired qualifications

• Able to define QA strategy, approach and execution.
• Passion for games, the industry and next-generation technology across multiple platforms.
• Able to build a detailed test plan that is flexible with ongoing changes in features and verifies builds for full production testing.

Note: Research shows under-represented groups in the industry might not apply to a job if they don't check off every requirement. At Avalanche, we're more about your drive to learn and interest in tackling challenges than what's on your resume! So don't stress if you don't tick every box— shoot us your application anyway! Diverse opinions and different experiences are what make our teams so great, not itemized lists of qualifications.

The Stockholm location

Our Stockholm office is situated in Södermalm, the beating heart of the city’s game industry. It's a physical representation of our games – the lush vegetation of Just Cause and theHunter: Call of the Wild meets corroded metal straight out of Mad Max. Our hybrid model requires you to be in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays to foster collaboration and creativity.

Our values

At Avalanche Studios Group, we create worlds beyond limits. But that's not exclusive to our games, so we're committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. All Avalanchers have a shared responsibility to create an open work environment where everyone is treated equally and respectfully. Being part of our world is not contingent on your heritage, your gender, or sexual orientation. It's all about your passion and creativity.

At Avalanche Studios Group we're always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our passionate team, but please note that relocation assistance is not available for this role.