Senior Technical QA Engineer for Game Engine & Tools

Avalanche Studios; Malmo (NE); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Avalanche Studios invites an Experienced Technical QA Engineer to join the Engine and Internal Tools teams. You will shape testing processes, risk management, and quality evaluation for features, functions, or subsystems, and drive a quality program with end-to-end and integration tests and release/change management.

You will become the Apex engine expert with in-house and 3rd party tools. You will embed within a development team to define acceptance criteria, perform manual and automated

Qualifications

• Several years in software; at least 3 in video games.
• Hands-on with game engines, editors and shared tools.
• Familiar with source control and debuggers (e.g., Perforce, Visual Studio).
• Knowledge of build systems, CI, unit tests and automated tests.
• Experience with QA practices and bug prevention strategies.
• Experience with defect tracking tools (Hansoft, JIRA, DevTrack, TestRail).
• Experience in test automation.
• Scripting in Python or JavaScript; shell/CLI tools.
• Understanding of C++.

Responsibilities

• Embed in a development team to define acceptance criteria and plan testing coverage.
• Participate in daily team activities (stand-ups, bug triage, planning).
• Use manual and technical testing to analyze quality across editor, tools, integration, performance.
• Develop and maintain QA tools (remote console, debug, local servers).
• Mentor and train fellow QA engineers.
• Create and maintain test plans and test cases.
• Log bugs and regress daily in the database.

Skills

Gaming QA

Game engines

Source control

Build systems & CI

QA practices & bugs

Bug tracking tools

Test automation

Scripting (Python/JS)

C++ understanding

Tools

Perforce

Visual Studio

Hansoft

JIRA

DevTrack

TestRail

Job description

Avalanche Studios invites an Experienced Technical QA Engineer to join the Engine and Internal Tools teams. You will shape testing processes, risk management, and quality evaluation for features, functions, or subsystems, and drive a quality program with end-to-end and integration tests and release/change management.

You will become the Apex engine expert with in-house and 3rd party tools. You will embed within a development team to define acceptance criteria, perform manual and automated