Development Sr. Tester

The Quest: 

• Work closely with all scrum teams/product owners to make sure each release meets high- quality standards.
• Become the Subject Matter Expert for the assigned project. Be the central contact person for multiple assigned areas based on experience.
• Contributes to test effort estimates based on experience, tools and historical data.
• Identify and provide solutions to optimize the current QA process and ensure we provide quality and on time deliverables.
• Actively collaborating with developers, designers, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability, consistency and completeness.
• Participating proactively in backlog refinement, sprint planning, team retrospectives, and other Scrum ceremonies.
• Define release/acceptance criteria for every QA verifiable deliverable.
• Perform daily smoke tests to ensure the stability of the build.
• Works alongside developers, artists, and designers to perform specific tests.
• Executes various levels and types of testing such as smoke, sanity, exploratory, functional, regression tests.
• Communicates risks and dependencies to ensure that they have visibility and are addressed.
• Raise any issues blocking the QA process in a timely manner.
• Review database issues to make sure the correct severity/priority was assigned.
•  Publish/respond to issues, where required, while working closely with the Product Owner.
•  Manages bug entry to minimize invalid and duplicate issues
• Be the voice of quality for the product by providing qualitative or design feedback from a player’s perspective.
• Use KPIs to improve the quality of the QA deliverables.
• Offer training assistance if needed in onboarding new testers
• Provides mentoring to team members as needed.
• Creates, updates and maintains test scripts, test cases, test scenarios, project documentation and QA documents.
• Executes an assigned portion of the test plan.
•  Takes ownership for own development and career management, seeking opportunities to develop personal capabilities and improve performance.

The Skills: 

• 3+ years of gaming/software testing experience.
•  Willingness to work in an agile environment and can share complex technical information with different teams and partners, within or outside of the quality assurance team.
• Knowledge of game/software development framework, milestone requirements and QA role/development team deliverables at each stage.
• ·Experience with testing a game in various phases of its development, from concept to live ops.
• Strong attention to detail and demonstrated the ability to solve complex problems.
• Skills and the ability to come up with quick and creative solutions.
• Ability to prioritize work tasks in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, adaptability, and to think “outside of the box”.
• Basic understanding of the Unity game engine.
• Understanding and proven experience with test case management.
• Performance and productivity-oriented to drive towards quality outcomes and results.
• Proficient with industry standard QA Tools (Jira, iTunes, ADB, etc.)
• Good communication skills in English, both verbal and written.