Senior QA Engineer, Audio

Job Description

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of Fortnite Audio features, functionality or set of work. You will be part of a rapidly iterating development team working closely with professional and highly technical audio developers.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking to 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 as embedded members of the Fortnite development team.

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!

In this role, you will
• Work with product owners, developers and QA management to define and identify requirements, anticipate and report risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming and existing features/releases.
• Coordinate test efforts between geographically distributed teams, vendors and agencies to deliver the highest quality product.
• Build test strategies and test plans to cover low-level engine features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Manage automated, functional, qualitative, and performance testing efforts.
• Use a mix of manual and technical testing skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across low-level engine feature sets to analyze quality.
• Analyze and troubleshoot reported defects and internal issues to help prioritize fixes and recommend new areas of testing.
• Report and track for data quality and use that data to drive conversations around product quality and development health.
• Assist in debugging issues or building testing tools for peers to ensure the team stays as productive as possible.

What we're looking for
• 3+ years of software testing experience in a fast-paced environment with a passion for sound design.
• Familiarity with audio development principles and practices.
• Programming or scripting skills such as C++/C#/Python/Javascript.
• Solid understanding of test methodologies and iterative development.
• Problem solving experience especially in technical environments utilizing debugging tools and IDEs (Visual Studio, XCode, etc.) to investigate and report on results.
• Strong communication skills and ability to confidently collaborate with senior dev engineers on technical topics and features.
• Experience in functional, usability, and cross-platform testing.
• Ability to prioritize and work independently, as well as in a team environment and thrive while working in a fast-paced working environment with the ability to juggle multiple projects.
• Proven track record of successful contributions to the release of high-quality products.

Nice to have skills
• Prior experience with running and designing automated tests.
• Experience with Unreal Engine and Blueprints.
• Familiarity with audio development tools including digital audio workstations (DAW) such as Reaper.

This role is open to multiple locations (including CA and WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren't limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

California Base Pay Range

$82,593 - $137,655 USD

Washington Base Pay Range

$97,047 - $161,745 USD

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-d54xoe-3-17-6-75-42 in your application.