Quality Designer

Job Description

QA Leads or Quality Designers as they are referred to internally are embedded within our development team. You will help review features as they are being delivered and ensure that the features are built correctly. The right Quality Designer, you can interpret designs in testing processes. You are champion of best practices and new ideas in testing, playing a necessary role in driving our craft forward. They test, document, and evolve procedures ensuring accurate execution and reporting of all testing activities.

Reporting to the Development Director, this is a versatile role with many areas of focus and responsibilities. A Quality Designer is a catalyst ensuring that QA understands the design and that its features are tested in the correct way and ensuring that the quality of the game lives up to our players' expectations.

Responsibilities:
• Determine and maintain the test strategy for owned features/systems, ensuring accurate reporting of status and risk.
• Represent QA within the development team; be visible, vocal, and integrated.
• Participate in daily development stand-ups and share updates with the wider QA team
• You will develop an intimate understanding of the systems and their associated requirements, maintaining them; share the details and updates with the wider QA team.
• Perform design testing reviews for us, ensuring the design is captured and identifying bugs and user improving concerns before they make it into software.
• Work with remote teams to ensure high-quality service delivery for your area(s) of ownership.
• You will lead the qualitative feedback process from a QA perspective, gathering feedback from the entire team and providing the dev team with applicable analysis of the results.
• You will improve the qualitative feedback across the team, advocating for best practices.
• Support studio-wide playtest process, aligning aims and goals and ensuring the capture of the feedback and bugs from all parties.
• Identify high-value automation and telemetry requirements for features/systems in their own area.

Qualifications:
• A passion for quality and game design.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.
• Previous game or software development QA experience; 3+ years experience.
• Knowledge of gaming consoles and their systems.
• Knowledge of testing/planning tools
• SQL knowledge

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwnw7k-18-118-126-241-42 in your application.