LQA Lead
Frontier Developments
Senior QA Analyst – RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Jagex
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
AndroidRay
About the role
- Gain in-depth understanding of new and developing features from the early stages of conception, design and development.
- Anticipate testing requirements across open-world systems, such as AI behaviors, crafting, resource management, and environmental interactions.
- Define and evolve test strategies for Unreal Engine 5, leveraging automation, profiling tools, and performance metrics where appropriate.
- Understand and evaluate QA tools from a technical perspective and recommend or develop them as necessary.
- Review and evaluate defect database, on individual ticket and data analysis levels to improve or facilitate QA processes.
- Collaborate across the product team to evaluate and improve quality processes, involve everyone in driving quality.
- Work with departments outside of product team (e.g. Localisation, Legal, Submission and Release) to ensure work or requirements are communicated.
- Contribute to defect and task prioritisation, adjusting priorities in collaboration with the development team.
- Mentor and develop members of the QA team and be a source of knowledge and expertise in QA and the product.
- Organise process and feature documentation, assessing gaps in knowledge and filling them in.
- Manage or assist on complex QA tests and product features, with planning, organising team tasks, and test execution.
- Be a Subject Matter Expert across multiple QA and product subjects.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge and proven experience with data analytics and testing telemetry.
- Strong understanding of open-world testing challenges — e.g., streaming, large environments, AI interactions, save/load systems.
- Detailed understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Excellent understanding of integration testing, branching strategies.
- Proven experience driving collaboration between different teams.
- Experience testing across different video game platforms and hardware (e.g. PlayStation, PC, Android); experience with compatibility and performance testing.
- Proven experience with risk-based testing and managing QA for large-scale or live products.
- Familiarity with data analytics and telemetry, using metrics to assess quality and player experience.
- Experience performing grey-box & white-box testing.
- In-depth knowledge of QA tools (JIRA, X-ray or similar) and familiarity with a variety of specialist tools.
Benefits
- Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
- Minimum 6% Pension contributions
- Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
- Life Insurance
- Discretionary annual performance bonus
- Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
- Flexible working hours
- 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
data analyticstesting telemetryopen-world testingintegration testingrisk-based testinggrey-box testingwhite-box testingQA processesperformance metricsdefect analysis
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringcommunicationorganizingplanningevaluatingimproving qualityknowledge sharingprioritizationproblem-solving