QA Analyst

What we are looking for:

Escape Velocity is looking for a QA Analyst, with wide ranging skills and experience to drive feature testing efforts in a multiplatform game.

Requirements

What we will do together:

• Define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming features/releases.
• Working with QA leadership, producers, engineers, stakeholders, and designers, you will design, build, and maintain test artefacts.
• Facilitate functional, qualitative, and performance testing efforts while using manual and technical testing skills to execute various testing techniques across the product to analyze and report on quality.
• Meeting with other disciplines to understand tasks and define expectations through story points.
• Build test analysis and suites to support fast paced development.
• Manually testing features as they are added to the game and as part of live service verification once the product is released.
• Identifying risks and designing test plans to address those risks.
• Using a variety of applications to ensure quality early on in the development process before the product gets to volume testing.
• Root cause analysis on patterns and processes to eliminate pathways to defect creation.
• Playtesting the product and offering design feedback from different perspectives and use cases.
• Analyzing and troubleshooting reported defects with products, tools, or processes.
• Interacting with the product in multiple environments to determine the scope and source of defects.
• Working with vendor testers to satisfy the need for volume testing since this is a multiplayer game.

What you will bring:

• Experience using industry-standard engines such as Unity and UE5.
• A keen eye for breaking 3D worlds and competitive mechanics.
• A good split between functional and user testing experience.
• 3+ years in games manual testing on PC/Mac, console, or mobile platforms.
• At least one shipped title.
• ISTQB experience is a plus.
• Higher than average competitive gaming ability a plus.

Benefits

Interested… a bit about Escape Velocity:

Escape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits and what we believe is a fantastic project. But that doesn’t make us unique. What does make us special? We value the time, energy, and talent of our players and our colleagues. We want every hour spent developing and playing our games to be an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile use of your time. To that end, we are fully remote and support team members nearly anywhere in the world.  We prioritize honesty, even when that means sharing bad news. We strive to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play, and we care more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you’re clocking. We believe in constant improvement across all areas – from the game itself to our production design – and are constantly re-evaluating how we spend our time to ensure that we’re not wasting yours and we’re all always working on the most important things. Finally (and perhaps most importantly) we’re dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all.

How to apply:

Click apply and complete an application along with a Resume / CV. If we would like to move forward with your application, a member of the Recruiting Team will reach out to you and guide you through our process.

Escape Velocity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities.

Applications will be considered​ regardless ​of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.

Escape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits and what we believe is a fantastic project. But that doesn’t make us unique. What does make us special? We value the time, energy, and talent of our players and our colleagues. We want every hour spent developing and playing our games to be an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile use of your time. To that end, we are fully remote and support team members nearly anywhere in the world. We prioritize honesty, even when that means sharing bad news. We strive to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play; and we care more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you’re clocking. We believe in constant improvement across all areas – from the game itself to our production design – and are constantly re-evaluating how we spend our time to ensure that we’re not wasting yours and we’re all always working on the most important things. Finally (and perhaps most importantly) we’re dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all.