Senior Development Tester Anno

Job Description

Senior Development Tester [Anno] (f/m/d)

About Ubisoft Mainz

The teams at Ubisoft Mainz are engineering some of Ubisoft's biggest blockbusters. Operating from a historic city in the heart of Germany, the studio develops games pushing the limits of the genre like the acclaimed Anno 1800 and lends decades of expertise to AAA co-development projects like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and the upcoming Beyond Good And Evil 2. More information at mainz.ubisoft.com.

Job Description

Anno is a critically acclaimed and award-winning franchise, offering a rich city-building experience and providing players ample opportunity to create huge metropolises, plan efficient logistics networks, explore and settle new lands and dominate their opponents by diplomacy, trade or warfare.

As a Senior Development Tester on our team, you are essential to ensuring the quality and stability of our game's features and content.

With a proactive attitude, you mentor other testers and ensure that all features under your responsibility meet our standards. You believe in working efficiently and testing thoroughly to achieve the best of quality. In close cooperation with your colleagues in programming, art and design, you make sure that software errors or game design problems can be corrected now, prevented later, and never reach our players

What you will do:
• Perform daily tests, report and monitor software errors (bugs) and game design problems in a bug database
• Be responsible for quality and stability of new game content, new features and upcoming release
• Work alongside developers, artists and designers to perform specific tests
• Verify fixes applied by developers (bug regression)
• Validate high risk changes before they are integrated into the main version in order to ensure stability and basic functionality
• Deliver feedback and reports to the development team, on a regular basis as well as on-demand
• Act as a direction-providing mentor for other testers

Qualifications

What you bring:
• Experience on a similar position for at least 4 years
• Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills, with a proactive and independent work style
• Great understanding of development processes and the needs of different departments throughout a development cycle
• Adapt easily to platform and workload variations
• High expertise in writing test-cases and setting up test procedures
• Open to changes and self-improvement
• Knowledge of gaming platforms (Xbox One, PS4, PC, etc)
• Experience with MS Office, Confluence, Sharepoint
• Experience with defect & test case management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail)
• Excellent knowledge of English both spoken and written

Nice to have:
*Any coding knowledge
*Experience with automation test methods
*ISTQB-Certification
*Experience working in global teams
*Familiarity with Ubisoft's line of products and services

What to send our way:
• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rny30k-18-117-107-90-42 in your application.