Senior QA Functional Tester

Job Description

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Your Mission

Senior QA Testers are a support function within the Quality Assurance team. They will take on some leadership responsibilities, often overseeing and guiding a group of testers to accomplish tasks or test cases set out by the Project or Associate Lead. They are mentors to newer testers and will assist in the development and training of their testers to be better contributors to the project. They may assist in some lead duties such as writing status reports or creating other documentation that may be needed by the development or Production team. In rare cases, the Senior QA Tester may also be called upon to perform in an acting QA Project Lead role, which involves organizing and leading the testing effort on assigned pre-release video games. Depending on the project a Senior tester may also be responsible for testing and generating bug reports for pre-release video games as well as verifying functionality, data content, performance, 1st Party Compliance, usability/playability, and hardware/software compatibility.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Is primarily responsible for a small group of testers on the project, being their first contact point to answer questions, advise in their testing methods, and help direct them on their tasks and test cases.
• May be called upon to direct larger groups for playtests, high player count game mode checks, or other tasks requiring a large group.
• Assists in the development of new testers through coaching and goal setting to improve their performance.
• Assists assigned QA Project Lead as a floor lead or platform lead. Assigns tasks to the test team, and follows up on the completion of assigned tasks to ensure that they're completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Assists the Associate and Project Lead in the maintaining of DevTest cases.
• Undertakes additional responsibilities, such as database management, or in researching and gathering data for metrics, as assigned by the QA Project Lead. Assists in training and mentoring new testers in the basics of testing the game and QA testing policies and procedures.
• May assist the QA Project Lead during meetings with Production or technical support groups.
• May be called upon to present testing results in higher level meetings with senior management.
• Looks for ways to improve testing effectiveness. Coaches other testers in innovative testing techniques and encourages testers in ways to break the game beyond the obvious approaches. Encourages testing ''outside the box''.
• Reviews tester performance and gives recommendations to their lead about their viability as a team member.
• May be called upon to help manage the test team in the QA Project Lead's absence.
• Follows instructions and accomplishes tasks as directed by the QA Project Lead or QA Management.
• Assists the Production/Development team in tracking down issues and working out the steps to reproduce so that they are easier to locate and fix.

Player Profile:

Minimum Requirements:

Technical
• Familiarity with Devtrack and JIRA.
• Good knowledge of most popular console platforms and related peripherals, PC Software/hardware, and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Understanding of the software test cycle process.
• PC and console game troubleshooting.
• Experience and familiarity with multiple gaming platforms and genres.

Non-Technical
• Experience with organizing and leading a group of individuals to complete complicated tasks.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must possess excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Proactive, driven individual with a strong work ethic.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Demonstrates leadership potential.

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $12.46 - $23.02 Hourly. This base pay range is for the US and is not applicable to locations outside of the US Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-reqj90-18-117-158-47-42 in your application.