Game QA SDET

Full Job Description

The leading pure-play mobile game software development company in the iGame space is hiring another Senior QA engineer - SDET for their Boca Raton office. Create award-winning mobile online games played in over 40 countries and consistently ranked in the top 10 in the biggest markets in the world.
The Senior QA engineer is a leader in the QA community driving process and innovation while also working as an embedded QA engineer in a high performance cross-functional game development team. The engineer contributes to quality as well as usability, playability and even creative direction especially as it impacts performance and customer experience. This role has significant growth opportunities as the organization builds a leading edge test automation capability that will give you the opportunity to drive truly innovative mobile testing techniques.

Responsibilities :

Lead, design and create test scenarios, test cases, suites, and test plans for deliverables

Identify, promote, and sponsor innovation and best practices for cross team performance improvement

Test browser based games on mobile and online platforms on a wide variety of hardware

Write automated tests in TypeScript using Visual Code

Test using Webdriver IO with Selenium and automated browser testing tools

Conduct automated and manual testing as tasks require.

Lead in setting up the project task tracking / test schedule.

Creates / manages documentation associated to QA processes.

Keeps up to date on new hardware, browser news and relevant technologies.

Required mindset:

Must hate bugs - we want people who are passionate about quality

Takes pride in finding errors that developers swear are not there

Desire to learn with a natural curiosity that leads to new ways to identify bugs

Wants to grow and innovate technically

Passion for gaming and game development

Willing to relocate if not already within commuting distance to work location

Required skills :

An aptitude for quickly adopting and improving new technology and technical frameworks

A track record of mentorship, direction setting, innovation and leading by example

Effective influencer within an agile development cell responsible for product quality with the ability to assist with project scheduling.

Proficient in SQL Scripts and SQL Server Manager.

Proficient at programming (TypeScript or JS preferred) and able to pick up programming languages as needed

Experienced with testing on iOS, Android, Windows and MacOS

Knowledgeable in performance analysis and performance data capture (start-up and runtime performance).

History of success working on multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.

Ability to work with others in a demanding and fast paced environment.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Required experience :

Minimum of 5 years of work experience in software quality assurance and/or software development.

Candidates must have 2 or more years of mobile app or cross-platform web application testing experience

Candidates must have over 4 years of formal software quality assurance with progressive growth and assumption of responsibilities

Optional desirable:

Test script automation using the standard TypeScript test runner syntax

Knowledge of automated browser testing tools: Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Puppeteer or Playwright, etc is desired.

Skilled in SQL Stored Procedures and Data Extraction.

Proficient in Data Analysis.

Can design / create tools to help improve internal processes

Experienced testing / developing slot games.

Experienced testing / developing web-based games.

Skilled in Object Oriented Programming and Design.

Benefits:

All benefits begin and are vested immediately.

Health care coverage

Company H.S.A. contribution

4% 401k match

Eligible for up to 25% bonus paid quarterly based on personal and game team performance

Location:

This role is based is in Boca Raton, FL

It is in-office 5 days per week

Relocation expenses are paid

About the company:

This four studio software engineering company is averaging a 25% annual employee growth rate. With a median tenure of almost 4 years, employees are embracing the opportunity to innovate and personally contribute to global hit games in the world's leading portfolio of games.

With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, this company is adopting leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences. Their games are achieving fast market penetration, high player satisfaction and superior quality.  They recruit for attitude and aptitude.  They believe the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great product with minimal supervision/overhead which is the inspiration behind their distributed studio approach to growth.  You owe it to yourself to see this amazing alternative to corporate and indie game development.