Sr. QA Tester

Skymap Games; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking game development studio as a Sr. QA Tester, where your insights and technical analysis will help shape the quality of exciting new games. In this role, you will creatively and analytically test games, providing valuable feedback on gameplay mechanics and aesthetics. Collaborate with a talented team to implement a robust QA framework and drive improvements in processes and efficiency. Enjoy a fully remote work environment with excellent benefits, including medical plans and generous paid time off. If you're passionate about gaming and quality assurance, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401k with matching

4 weeks paid time off

Strong work-life balance

Employee run committees for social events

Qualifications

• Exceptional QA skills with 2 years of game industry experience.
• Proactive, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individual.
• Strong reporting capabilities and knowledge of game development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain QA framework and processes.
• Coordinate testing needs and advocate for player experience.
• Create detailed logs and meet with project teams.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Communication Skills

Time Management

JIRA

Agile Methodologies

Game Testing

Problem Solving

Education

2 years of game industry experience

Tools

JIRA

Automation Frameworks

Job description

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Skymap Games is hiring a Sr. QA tester to help us deliver the highest quality games possible by providing insightful feedback and technical analysis. In this role you will think creatively and analytically to thoroughly test games for bugs and crashes, as well as to provide non-technical feedback on gameplay mechanics, aesthetics, feel, etc. You will create detailed logs and meet with a team from each project to discuss your findings.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement and maintain a solid QA framework and process
• Champion the evolution of QA’s methodology, tools and impact by always seeking for opportunities to improve process and efficiency.
• Working with your QA Engineers, establish testing tools and a pipeline to identify and create new tools or resources
• Be able to provide an holistic quality overview of upcoming changes or additions at any given time, through relevant tracking and reporting
• Coordinate testing needs surrounding technical investigation of issues uncovered through negative KPI trends and / or Customer Support escalations
• Build and deploy testing suites and cases to verify game feature functionality
• Be the connection point and knowledge base for QA leveraging your domain expertise
• Complete directed and adhoc testing of game features
• Coordinate with internal Certification and Release team on 3rd party compliance and performance data captures
• Advocate for the quality of the player experience

Qualifications

• Exceptional Quality Assurance skills with 2 years game industry experience
• Excellent communication and effective time management skills
• Strong time management, accountability and organizational skills
• Proactive, enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Flexible to an agile setup with the ability to multitask, managing coverage for multiple high profile releases with strict deadlines
• Exceptional reporting capabilities
• Knowledge of JIRA and / or similar bug tracking systems
• Experience supporting multiple platforms (PC, Console, Mobile)
• A sound understanding of the gaming industry and the typical end to end development lifecycle
• Familiarity with automation frameworks
• Passion for making video games the best they can be
• Works well in a team and independently
• Experience working on large, diverse, and remote teams

Pluses

• Experience in large complex games (MMO's), Live Ops
• Knowledge and experience working with Unreal

About Skymap Games

Skymap is a game development studio based in Manchester, NH. Founded in 2013, Skymap develops its own original titles and partners with developers to help promising projects realize their full potential. You can learn more about the studio and portfolio of titles at https://skymap.com

Our Values

• Providing opportunities for employees of Skymap to contribute to our games and culture at any level of the organization.
• Hiring folks with a can-do attitude, excellent communication skills, and strong technical fundamentals. We want to work with people who are kind and helpful.
• Employees are a culture add, not a culture fit. Diversity is strength.

We Provide*

• Most positions are fully remote
• Medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents
• Short-term disability, long-term disability, and term life insurance
• 401k with matching
• 4 weeks paid time off, sick leave, and holiday policies
• Employee run and company funded committees for social events, charitable causes, etc.
• Strong work-life balance and anti-crunch policies

*Not all benefits are available to part-time employees and / or applicants outside of the U.S.

Equal Employment Opportunity will always be a fundamental principle at Skymap Games, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, traits historically associated with race, such as natural and protective hair styles and hair texture, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by local, state and/or federal law.

The Skymap Games Equal Employment Opportunity standard applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.

Skymap is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Should you need any special accommodations to participate in the application process, such as assistance in completing the application, accommodations for the interview, accommodations for any job-related employment tests, and/or any other needed accommodation, please let us know at the time of application, or at the time an appointment is scheduled. You may send an email to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

All applicant information will be kept confidential according to state and federal EEO guidelines.

DEI principles are important to us, and candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Skymap does not offer visa sponsorship at this time.

We are an E-Verify employer.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance

• Industries

  Computer Games

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