QA Engineer - Valorant

Job Description

At Riot, we believe ''Quality Assurance'' is more than the bug-finding process that follows months of development work. For us, it's a set of values, practices, and behaviours that inform every part of the development process. Riot QA assists our engineers, artists, and designers to realize their best work, and the best way to work. Through iteration and fast cycles, we refine our choices and identify process and product defects early, thus protecting the player from flaws and distractions. This great opportunity challenges us to rethink our approach to achieve the very best for our players. We help Riot sustainably craft excellent experiences for our players, globally.

VALORANT is Riot's take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!). As a QA Engineer on VALORANT, you will join a multi-discipline team of engineers, designers, producers and project managers to create value for Players around the world and improve their experience. You will be guided by Riot's Test Policy to drive quality ownership across the software development life cycle, as well as helping to establish and execute team wide quality goals. It will be important for you to aggressively protect the player experience and deliver results in a high pressure, agile development environment.

You will also be accountable as the quality owner of an area or product in addition to identifying and implementing quality improvements to the team's development process. Additionally, you may partner with and mentor remote QA teams to ensure features are delivered at a high quality bar. Lastly, you will identify and mitigate risks to feature delivery and product quality and craft data to report on the quality of the product and update partners. You will report to the Quality Manager for the project.

Responsibilities:
• As QA Engineer for VALORANT, you will be key in supporting your development teams, Engineers and Artists, executing and owning the QA process to deliver quality content to Players.
• Designing and executing test plans to maintain a high quality bar for your product.
• Improving and refining efficient solutions to problems, while continuously improving delivery.
• Monitoring and measuring the impact, efficiency and effectiveness of quality activities for your team and using that data to guide action.
• Solving complex problems by innovating on best practices, and implementing new ways of approaching and mitigating quality risks.
• Planning work according to team deliverables, and taking direction from both your team leads and quality manager.
• Supervising external testers in their day to day tasks.
• Driving communication, representing QA work on progress, tasks or blockers and the overall Quality of the assigned product.

Required Qualifications:
• 2+ years Software Quality Assurance Experience, with success leading Quality efforts in game development
• Experience designing and executing test plans.
• Experience managing components of a defect database.
• Experience working embedded with developers and content creators.

Desired Qualifications:
• QA experience working on backend systems and Unreal Engine 4 in game development
• Professional experience working on first-person shooters, or extensive engagement playing them
• Professional experience working on esports titles, or extensive engagement as a fan
• Experience tasking remote testers and providing feedback on effectiveness.
• Experience creating custom reports on test coverage and defect data.
• ISTQB qualifications; i.e.: Foundation/Agile Tester/Expert Level/Adv. Test Mgr.
• SCRUM/Agile qualifications
• Development/Test experience across several platforms; Mobile, Console, PC

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d91vyz-3-19-31-73-42 in your application.