QA Lead

Job Description

QA Lead - Fortnite Creative

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What we do

Epic Games is looking to significantly expand its internal full-time Quality Assurance team. We are looking for serious QA professionals with wide ranging skills and experience who want to work embedded on a development. Whether you have very limited QA experience or you have 15 years or more, we have a position for you. This position owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of a given feature, function or set of work, where you will be part of a rapidly iterating development team working closely with developers. We are actively looking to staff teams across web development, the Unreal Engine, tools creation, backend services, games, and our release process, as well as specialized teams working on specific platforms such as mobile or XR.If you're excited about working in a fast-paced environment and are highly motivated to ensure the best possible user experience, then we'd like to speak with you!

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What you'll do

The Fortnite Creative Team is bringing the entire toolset of Unreal Engine and the Unreal Editor to developers and creators to make and publish experiences within Fortnite.

Want to get Creative? Epic Games, creator of Fortnite, is looking for a QA Lead to help us continue to innovate on our Fortnite Creative game mode. If you are interested in making new experiences alongside developers, QA professionals and player creators, apply today.

In this role, you will
• Develop feature by feature risk assessments as well as identify long term product, process, and people risks.
• Develop major testing initiatives using a combination of process, people, and effective testing methodologies
• Set expectations for more junior QA Leads, QA Analysts, Testers, and Technical QA
• Provide guidance and mentorship in the development of both hard and soft skills
• Map out testing strategies to solve for the challenges of now and the challenges of the future
• Lead your team in their use of data to develop proper risk assessment profiles while identifying major risks in a fast paced environment
• Partnering with developers and production to build sustainable testing solutions that likely include a mix of manual efforts, tooling, and automation.
• Implementing KPIs for product quality

What we're looking for
• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of Quality Assurance experience
• Capability to lead a QA team both as a people manager and tactical driver of success
• Formal QA certification, such as ISTQB or equivalent experience
• Experience in both software and games development
• Experience in reviewing requirements and creating test plans with automation in mind
• A deep understanding of defect reporting, version control, and configuration management best practices, along with different testing phase best practices and objectives (functional, system integration, UAT, performance)
• Technical Background - has the ability to contribute in day-to-day efforts when needed
• Supported a SaaS product
• Experience working with Unreal Engine 4 or other Game Engines

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gw733j-18-219-236-62-42 in your application.