Position Overview:
You will be responsible for raising the quality bar higher by feeding back and refining processes for the test team, guide more junior members and/or vendor teams towards a higher degree of efficiency and execution. You will also lead multiple features at a time while ensuring timely delivery against production timescales and costs. You have the ability to check out and build a codebase, identify similar code paths to achieve pair testing, and understand the use of metadata in mobile games.
What You'll Do:
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Drives improvements to QA development tools such as the debug menu or crash capturing.
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Takes on delegation from QA Leadership e.g. onboarding of new QA Analysts, chairs weekly meet, test case management, test case reviews, release test ownership, outsource management.
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Maintain and update test strategies, regression plans, cross-feature plans etc built by other members of the team.
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Can manage self and several other QA testers
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Can apply advanced knowledge of testing to make testing more efficient e.g. test matrices for compatibility.
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Is aware of test design methods like state tables that allow QA to break features down into their core components.
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Understands the coverage automated testing gives (if implemented) and adjusts manual testing appropriately.
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Can analyze performance data to find and report issues and critically analyze risks and testing required to mitigate them.
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Understands different types of users and can adapt their user acceptance tests to cover all scenarios.
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Understanding of client and server testing, including server validation, mobile DLC, and experiments/ events.
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Ability to use profiling tools like xcode, GameBench or built-in debug. Can generate reports from these tools.
- Proficiency in Python or any other scripting language for automation and process optimization.
- Experience with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline automation, including job configuration and pipeline scripting.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience in automating build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Knowledge of SQL for querying databases, data validation, and troubleshooting application issues.
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Ability to take on features or game areas, which are technically more challenging e.g. profile syncing, metadata, or time-gated features.
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Champions solutions to problems, good enthusiastic attitude.
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Drives knowledge sharing in the team and ensures the team has no gaps in skill coverage.
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Does not get sidetracked by things outside their control, has focus.
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Understanding of and/or experience with ad networks is a plus
What You Bring:
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Experience in the gaming industry
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Ability to write pseudo code, which will allow the Senior QA Analysts to find edge cases.
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ASTQB qualified.
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Understands how software architecture influences the amount of testing needed, including optimizing tests that utilize the same code paths.
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Has experience in using device farms e.g. AWS or testdroid.
What we offer you:
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