Testronic

QA Analyst, Narrative

Testronic

part-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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About the role

  • **What You Will Do **
  • You will work within Narrative Design & Writing to ensure narrative content is functional, cohesive, and immersive across the entire player experience.
  • **Feature QA **
  • Execute manual testing for all gameplay features, validating functionality, performance, and player experience.
  • Conduct regression, integration, and exploratory testing to ensure stability across builds.
  • Document, track, and prioritize issues in JIRA, providing clear and actionable feedback to developers and designers.
  • Maintain detailed and up-to-date test cases and plans for all pod content. Narrative QA
  • Story Development Support: Review and validate Story Documents, Outlines, Breakdowns, Capsules, and Scripts for narrative consistency and logic.
  • Character & World Documentation: Assist with QA passes on Character Bios, Story Bibles, Character Bibles (with Art), and Style Guides (with Design) to ensure alignment between writing, design, and art.
  • Narrative Tools & Systems: Test Narrative Design Documentation, Feature Wrappers, Narrative Design Specs, Presentation Decks for completeness and cross-discipline clarity.
  • Implementation Testing: Validate Narrative Mission Flows, 4X Branching Missions, ARPG Branching Quests, Dialogue, Objectives, and Script Implementation for correct triggers, progression logic, and localization integration.
  • Player-Facing Copy QA: Ensure quality and tone consistency for in-game text including Character, Ship, Building, and Location Descriptions, Asset Naming, and Ancillary text (Modals, Strings, Push Notifications).
  • Narrative-as-a-Service Support: Collaborate with live-ops and content pods to QA ongoing narrative updates and Pod Support content.
  • Cinematic & VO Support: Assist with Cutscene Blocking, Barks, Walk & Talks, and Voiceover Direction verification (e.g., line delivery, text/audio sync, timing)

Requirements

  • **You Bring **
  • 2+ years of QA experience within narrative-driven or content-heavy game projects, with a strong focus on story validation, dialogue systems, or branching content.
  • Deep understanding of narrative structure, story logic, and character consistency, with the ability to identify pacing, continuity, or tonal discrepancies across multiple narrative assets.
  • Familiarity with narrative tools and pipelines, including script editors, dialogue trees, localization systems, and in-engine narrative implementation workflows.
  • Hands-on experience testing branching missions or quests, ensuring progression logic, objective triggers, and player-choice outcomes function as intended.
  • Strong attention to grammar, tone, and style, with the ability to maintain consistent narrative voice across in-game text, descriptions, and UI copy.
  • Experience working with localization and VO pipelines, verifying text/audio synchronization, subtitle accuracy, and language integration.
  • A passion for storytelling in games and an eye for narrative detail, ensuring every piece of dialogue, text, and cinematic moment supports the player experience.
Benefits
  • **Bonus Features (What We Can Do For You)**
  • - Medical Plan
  • - Vision Plan
  • - Employer Paid Life Insurance
  • - Employee Assistance Program
  • - 401K w/ Matching Contribution
  • - Paid Company Holidays
  • - Paid Time Off
  • - Paid Parental Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
QA testingmanual testingregression testingintegration testingexploratory testingnarrative structurestory logiclocalization systemsdialogue systemsbranching content
Soft Skills
attention to detailcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingorganizational skillscritical thinkingcreativitystorytellingfeedback provisionnarrative consistency