QA Engineer
Tempo Software
Cloud
QA Lead, 9-month contract
Blackbird Interactive
contract
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$65,000 - CA$70,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Build and improve processes with publisher QA.
- Build and improve processes with internal QA, lead producers and directors. As well as communicating with the internal QA team as a whole in order to share knowledge and improve the QA group across the board.
- Actively participate in daily hands-on testing of complex features, builds, and gameplay systems to maintain deep project knowledge and ensure test coverage aligns with real-world play scenarios.
- Champion best practices for testing, testing processes and testing tools Facilitate knowledge sharing between scrum groups.
- Assess and provide feedback on milestones and project status and direction.
- Oversee the creation, management and monitoring of tasks communicating status to the relevant stakeholders.
- Partner with the dev team to proactively define and prioritize work to support the project.
- Interface with producers, designers, artists and programmers to understand the game direction and requirements.
- Ensure consistent knowledge-sharing, learning, documentation, as well as improving tools and processes as necessary for your team to excel.
- Troubleshoot and adapt to solve problems in dynamic, high-energy situations.
- Daily leadership and development of an embedded QA team/s for end-to-end QA.
- Partner with QA and Development leadership to both drive and manage project QA needs and deliverables.
- Proactively assess and communicate the needs or progress of development partners, and how they relate to the QA team's priorities and tasks.
- Actively develop and revise QA project and test plans, tracking work, risk management, and QA strategies and processes.
- Oversee the creation and maintenance of training, testing tools, plans, and supporting documentation.
- Effectively collaborate and communicate with other QA leads, multiple interdisciplinary teams, project stakeholders and external partners.
Requirements
- 2+ years experience in a QA Lead role or equivalent.
- Communicates effectively both verbally, and in written form.
- Expertise in Quality Assurance processes, and how to implement them properly.
- Experience managing external stakeholders.
- Understands the key practices of the agile development process.
- High level of expertise on the dependencies and relationships between the various components that make up a video game.
- Expertise with various types of tests, and how to run them, as well as how to organize the tests to maximize coverage while being efficient.
Benefits
- 4-day, 32-hour work week for all full-time staff
- Mentorship program
- Skunkworks internal game jam program
- 4 weeks paid vacation per year
- 11 paid stat holidays
- 3 paid days per year for professional development
- December holiday studio closure (extra paid time off!)
- Comprehensive health/dental benefits from day 1
- Life insurance
- $300 Healthcare Spending Account per annum
- RRSP matching
- Profit-sharing bonus program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Quality Assurance processestesting processestesting toolstest plansrisk managementQA strategieshands-on testingtest coverageagile development
Soft skills
effective communicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingknowledge sharing
