Senior QA Analyst

Job Description

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

Epic Games is looking to expand its internal Quality Assurance team. We are looking for serious QA professionals with wide ranging skills and experience who want to work embedded on a development team. 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 and production. 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!

What You'll Do

In this role you will work closely with developers, product owners, and QA analysts on the quest team to collect and meet necessary quality criteria. The Fortnite Quests team is responsible for creating an engaging experience through the implementation of quests across storyline, seasonal events, special IP collaborations, cosmetics and much more. The role will cover testing of quest implementation, their reward distribution, and giving qualitative feedback to help find the fun in Fortnite. This role will also focus on working directly with designers and production to identify and report risk for your assigned features, ensure adequate coverage, work with internal and external test teams to execute on your test plans, and deliver a great player experience.

To be set up for success, the person in this role should have experience with end-to-end feature ownership and risk assessment while being flexible in a fast-paced environment.

In this role, you will
• Work with product owners, developers and QA management to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming quests and quest features.
• Build test approaches and test plans in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Conduct standard functional and qualitative testing on quests and quest-related assets in game and in engine.
• Plan and conduct defect exploration and verification of quests and quest assets, including UI and IP requirements.
• Help investigate and troubleshoot through complex systems, including grey/whitebox
• Analyze and troubleshoot reported defects, internal issues within the product, and escalate quality issues.
• Able to generate analysis of outstanding defect load and recommend new areas of testing, as well areas to prioritize fixes.
• Proactively manage incoming defects and work autonomously on highest value tasks, be it test writing or test execution.

What we're looking for:
• 3+ YOE in testing
• 2+ years in Quality Assurance
• Experience working embedded in SDLC
• Proven expertise in creating end-to-end test plans of a feature, identifying gaps in test coverage and root cause analysis
• Ability to prioritize and work independently, as well as in a team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Game development experience, working with multiple platforms, cross-platform testing, and Unreal Engine experience.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dyb13k-18-191-211-66-42 in your application.