Senior QA Analyst

Epic Games • Fulltime • Washington, USA + 1 more, United States • $93.90k - $146.50k / year • 3m ago

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.

What You’ll Do

Epic is seeking Senior QA Analysts to act as stakeholders in QA of development strike teams on a shared project. You will be working directly with our Designers, Programmers, and Producers on this project as an area owner, overseeing the evaluation and planning of testing, allocating your time between deep investigations and reporting on test efforts for your area to drive the quality bar of your embedded space. We are a creative group within a large organization that prizes intelligence, creativity, and nimble problem-solving skills. Our ideal candidate is a self-starter with game QA management experience and has a passion for innovating and improving upon the Project and Product Quality Assurance Process. To be set up for success, a person in this role should have experience with end-to-end feature ownership and risk assessment while being flexible in a fast-paced environment. Moreover, the person should be well-versed in digital art technologies and practices.

In this role, you will

Work with Art Leads, producers, and QA management to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming features/releases
Coordinate test efforts between geographically distributed teams, vendors and agencies to deliver the highest quality product
Build test strategies and test plans to cover multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
Help ensure that our art content is shipped to market within our standards and expectations
Understand and factor planning around functional, qualitative, and performance testing efforts
Using a mix of manual and technical testing skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across your product to analyze the quality of said product
Track and Report on quality data, and utilize that data to drive conversations around product quality and development health

What we’re looking for

3+ years of software testing experience in a fast paced environment
Solid understanding of test methodologies and iterative development
Technical understanding of web, mobile, XR, or game technologies
Experience in functional and usability testing in your domain of expertise
Experience with cross-platform or cross-browser testing
Experience with digital art in a testing environment
Experience with diverse and fast paced art pipelines and associated tools like Autodesk/Shotgrid
Knowledge in one or more of these areas: Game Engines or 3D Software toolsets, Backend servers and APIs, Games as a Service model development, Agile/Reactive test strategies and UE4/5 game engine experience (or similar)

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including CA & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

California Base Pay Range

$99,880—$146,490 USD

Washington Base Pay Range

$93,887—$137,700 USD

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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