QA Analyst – Publishing
NEOWIZ
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- As a QA Analyst supporting NEOWIZ’s global publishing portfolio, you will be responsible for independently driving quality validation, risk identification, and release readiness across externally developed game titles.
- You will independently plan and execute functional, compatibility, performance, and regression testing across PC and console platforms, based on agreed publishing milestones and quality standards.
- You will evaluate game builds provided by external development partners, assess overall quality and risk, and provide structured feedback aligned with NEOWIZ’s publishing requirements.
- You will document, track, and validate defects using industry-standard tools such as Jira, ensuring issues are clearly reproducible, prioritized, and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
- You will support first-party certification processes for Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo by validating compliance requirements and contributing to submission readiness.
- You will design and maintain test plans, test cases, and checklists, while continuously refining QA documentation and testing approaches to improve coverage and efficiency.
- You will contribute QA assessments during milestone reviews, highlighting quality trends, release risks, and recommendations.
- You will validate patches, updates, and live content as part of live operations support, ensuring stability and player experience post-launch.
Requirements
- You bring a minimum of three years of professional QA experience within the games industry, ideally within a publisher or external development environment.
- You have a strong command of QA methodologies, defect lifecycles, and industry best practices, and are comfortable operating independently with defined objectives.
- You are experienced with at least one professional bug-tracking system and consistently produce clear, actionable defect documentation.
- You demonstrate strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to identify systemic quality risks beyond individual bugs.
- You communicate effectively with cross-functional and external stakeholders in a distributed, international environment.
- A genuine passion for games and player experience is essential.
- Hands-on experience with console certification standards such as TRC, XR, NAC, or NOPS is highly valued.
- Experience working with external development studios, external QA vendors, or publishing organizations is a strong advantage.
Benefits
- Veterans will be given preferential treatment in accordance with applicable laws. Please submit proof of eligibility when applying.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
QA methodologiesdefect lifecyclesfunctional testingcompatibility testingperformance testingregression testingtest planstest casesbug-tracking systemslive operations support
Soft skills
analytical skillsattention to detailcommunicationindependent operationcross-functional collaborationrisk identificationstructured feedbackquality assessmentrecommendationspassion for games
Certifications
TRCXRNACNOPS