Senior Quality Designer

Job Description

Frostbite is EA's proprietary game engine that comes equipped with tons of tools and technologies designed to build incredible games. Our in-house engine offers the unique ability to adapt to each game while working hand-in-hand to prioritize what to build.
Our goal is to empower creators all over the world to bring their best ideas to life by creating an engine that amplifies innovation across every discipline.

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EA Vancouver is looking for a Senior Quality Designer to join our Frostbite QA team. Reporting to the Development director, this is an opportunity to develop new qualitative practices that aim to improve the quality for our game engine .

Expectations:
• You will have the end-to-end ownership of Quality strategy and propose tactical solutions to achieve that strategy.
• You will always promote a 'Player First' approach and be an advocate for the player to help us achieve a high-quality experience for our content creators.
• You will report progress and status through regular communication with appropriate managers and other team members.
• You will research and analyze data points spanning multiple sources into cohesive and consumable summaries that demonstrate impact to overall Quality.
• You will articulate trends in a relevant community. Understand what the community wants and expects from a game engine and incorporate that understanding into feedback.
• You will use basic problem-solving techniques (i.e., understands inputs and outputs, uses hypothesis setting and testing, etc.) Work with other analysts to solve problems.
• You will provide input to management team to assist decision making; help assess project impact of available options.
• You are a mentor for peers and junior quality designers, assisting with and growing their knowledge.

Requirements:
• 7+ years' experience in Quality Assurance, or comparable development experience.
• In-depth knowledge of software development practices, including both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Understanding of quality assurance techniques, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Experience working within a continuous delivery or continuous deployment model.
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Ability to develop and foster strong working relationships with development partners, customers, support teams, and management.

BC COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES
• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria):

º $107,600 - $147,100 CAN Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk06z4-18-118-1-232-42 in your application.