Quality Assurance Engineer – Core Game Loop

WorkGenius Group; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

WorkGenius Group in Santa Monica, CA seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer to own testing for the core game loop, including playtests and release readiness. You will design and execute test plans for features and player journeys.

The role requires 3+ years of QA, API testing experience, test planning, defect triage, and collaboration with developers, producers, designers, and external QA teams within an Agile workflow.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software QA experience leading testing for a team or subsystem.
• Experience testing client or web interfaces, services, APIs, and integrated systems.
• Familiar with build/release, version control, and test automation; SQL and performance testing a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans for core game-loop features and playtests.
• Validate build readiness across clients, services, queues, and gameplay transitions.
• Triage defects and communicate impact, risk, and recommended next steps.
• Collaborate with developers, producers, designers, QA leadership, and external teams.
• Coordinate external QA, review coverage gaps, and support release readiness.

Skills

Software QA

Game Testing

Test Planning

Regression Testing

API Testing

Defect Triage

Playtesting

Live-Service Games

Test Automation

Agile Development

Tools

Postman

Swagger

SoapUI

Perforce

Git

Job description

Title: Quality Assurance Engineer – Core Game Loop

Industry: Gaming / Entertainment

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Duration: 8 months with potential to extend

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for core game-loop features and connected player journeys, including functional, regression, exploratory, integration, and playtest coverage.
• Validate build, environment, account, and configuration readiness across clients, services, queues, gameplay transitions, milestones, and playtests.
• Triage defects, investigate complex issues, and communicate player impact, severity, status, quality risks, and recommended next steps.
• Collaborate with developers, producers, designers, QA leadership, and external QA teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Coordinate external QA execution, review test evidence and coverage gaps, support automation and workflow improvements, and contribute to release and live-service readiness.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software QA experience, including ownership or leadership of testing for a team, feature, or subsystem; experience with test planning, defect management, and risk analysis.
• Experience testing client or web interfaces, services, APIs, integrated systems, and interconnected player experiences; API testing with Postman, Swagger, SoapUI, or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience collaborating across Agile development teams and coordinating remote or external testers while evaluating testing effectiveness.
• Strong investigation, communication, organization, and follow-through skills, with familiarity with gaming systems, player onboarding, queue flows, and live-service or competitive gameplay.
• Familiarity with build and release processes, Perforce or Git, test automation, scripting, CI-integrated testing, SQL, performance or observability testing, and milestone or launch readiness; relevant testing certification is a plus.

Skills

• Software QA
• Game Testing
• Test Planning
• Regression Testing
• API Testing
• Defect Triage
• Playtesting
• Live-Service Games
• Test Automation
• Agile Development

Hourly rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.