QA - UK Only (Remote/Hybrid - Brighton) (auto)

FuturLab Ltd; United States; A distancia; USD 90.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Paid leave 27 days

Additional training

Descripción de la vacante

FuturLab Ltd is seeking a Lead QA for PowerWash Simulator 2 to drive quality across multiple platforms. You will lead the QA team, coordinate cross-disciplinary efforts with production, art, design and tech, and act as the primary QA contact for the project.

You will monitor product health, communicate risks to stakeholders, and help implement testing strategies and standards to support smooth live operations and timely updates.

Formación

• 2+ years in lead or management QA positions
• 2+ years in QA positions
• Experience working closely with production, tech, art and design departments
• Strong communication skills with stakeholders
• Understanding of first-party certification requirements (Microsoft, Sony & Nintendo)
• At least one title supported from pre-production to post-launch
• Familiarity with the PowerWash Simulator franchise
• Experience with live service video games
• Experience with QA automation
• Experience with programming or scripting languages

Responsabilidades

• Coordinate the execution of the daily QA strategy across 6 platforms and multiple branches with aligned submission and release cycles
• Work closely with discipline leads to improve QA pipelines
• Collaborate with LiveOps to test content drops efficiently
• Provide updates on overall product health, critical bugs, and delivery risks
• Supervise the project’s QA team and train when required
• Identify opportunities for QA to flag and mitigate risk early
• Support the QA Manager in maintaining QA processes and standards

Conocimientos

QA leadership

QA experience

Live service games

QA automation

Programming scripting

Stakeholder communication

Descripción del empleo

Описание:

We’re FuturLab, the award-winning game studio behind PowerWash Simulator, the Velocity series, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, and many more awesome games. We’re looking for a Lead QA to join the PowerWash Simulator 2 team! A successful candidate will be highly organized, proactive and ensure that both internal and external quality teams are appropriately assigned. You will be representing the department as the primary QA contact for the project, driving project quality improvements through inter-disciplinary processes and keeping core stakeholders updated on the health of the project.

Задачи:

• Co-ordinate the execution of our daily QA strategy across 6 platforms and multiple branches with aligned submission and release cycles
• Work closely with other discipline leads to understand where QA can help to improve their pipelines
• Work closely with the LiveOps team to ensure that content drops are tested efficiently
• Provide clear updates on overall product health, critical bugs, delivery risks and risks to live user experience
• Supervise the project’s QA team and train, where required
• Identify opportunities for QA to flag and mitigate risk as early as possible
• Support the QA Manager in maintaining quality assurance processes and standards

Требования:

• 2+ years in lead or management QA positions
• 5+ years in QA positions
• Experience working closely with production, tech, art and design departments
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with different types of stakeholders
• A strong understanding of Microsoft, Sony & Nintendo first party certification requirements
• At least one title supported from pre-production to post-launch support
• Familiarity with the PowerWash Simulator franchise
• Experience with live service video games
• Experience with QA automation
• Experience with programming or scripting languages

Условия:

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• Performance related bonus.
• Bi-annual salary reviews based on your performance.
• Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm (No weekends, No overtime, No Crunch!)
• 27 days of paid annual leave, including 21 standard days, 3 days over the Christmas closure, 2 discretionary 'Duvet Days,' 1 day to celebrate your birthday, plus all 8 UK bank holidays and an extra day off for our very own FuturLab bank holiday!
• 5 paid training and 2 paid volunteer days per year to work on your personal development.
• Opportunities to attend and speak at gaming events/conferences.
• Free MS Game Pass or PS+ subscription
• Free game codes, game swag and merchandise.
• Bike2work scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity - 9 months full pay (statutory benefit topped up by FL)
• Paternity leave - 8 weeks full pay
• Enhanced Sick Pay.
• Enhanced Pension.
• Private Healthcare, includes dental and optical cover.
• Remote therapy service through Spill -8 x 50-minute virtual sessions over 6 months whenever you need them.
• Unlimited 'ask a therapist' text questions.
• Eye tests & standard glasses for display work.
• Amazing offices with a great culture.
• FuturLab foster an inclusive and welcoming culture, check out the Life at FuturLab page (www.futurlab.co.uk/life-at-futurlab) for reasons why you'd love working here!

Equal Opportunities We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process as required, please add any adjustment requests to your application. Candidates without a valid UK work Visa cannot be considered.