Middle QA Engineer (with gaming experience)

Role Overview: 

As the sole QA professional in a cross-functional team, you will take ownership of  the testing process to ensure the quality, functionality, and usability of our games. You will lead testing efforts within your team, collaborating closely with all diciplinaries to deliver a seamless player experience. This is a hands-on role where  you will organize and execute testing tasks while fostering a quality-driven mindset  within the team. 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead the planning and execution of testing efforts with your cross-functional  team, ensuring thorough test coverage across desktop platforms Windows, macOS (and later mobile platform iOS, Android) 
• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans, test cases, and scripts to validate  new features, non-functional requirements, and regression testing.
• Organize team-wide testing sessions to identify issues and promote a shared  understanding of quality. 
• Take responsibility for identifying, reporting, and tracking bugs and defects,  providing actionable feedback to developers and designers. 
• Act as the testing advocate within your team, guiding them on quality best  practices and fostering a collaborative approach to bug resolution.
• Stay proactive in identifying edge cases and risks, suggesting improvements  to testing processes or product features. 
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends and emerging tools that can improve  testing efficiency and effectiveness.

Requirements: 

• QA experience in the gaming industry, ideally with both mobile or desktop  games. 
• Ability to lead and coordinate testing activities independently within a cross functional team. 
• Solid understanding of PC and mobile gaming platforms, and operating  systems (e.g., iOS, Android, Windows, macOS). 
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills to  manage testing priorities and expectations with your team. 
• Ability to perform exploratory testing and identify edge cases and high-impact  issues. 
• Passion for gaming and a commitment to delivering a great player experience. • Experienced with bug tracking and project management tools (e.g., JIRA,  Asana). 

Bonus Skills: 

• Experience with game development tools (e.g., Unity editor, cloud build  service) and version control systems. 
• Familiar with blockchain and web3 gaming