Quality Designer

Job Description

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.
Expectations:
• You will build working relationships with senior members of the development, production, and design teams that you will use to guide a higher quality player experience through tasks such as feature planning, analyzing internal data/player data, and feature/design reviews.
• Brainstorm test ideas, integrating them into improved cohesive test plans using both manual and automated testing methods for product stability to increase software quality.
• Work with senior management to address any identified test plan gaps.
• Work towards completing the agreed upon strategy goals.
• You are a mentor for peers, assisting with and growing their knowledge.
• Collaborate and promote best practices across multiple teams.
• Report progress and status through regular email or face-to-face communication with appropriate managers and other team members.
• Promote a ''Player First'' approach always and be an advocate for the player in everything we do to help us achieve a high-quality experience and stability for our players.
• Work in partnership with you peers and stakeholders to improve testing/operational processes to dive product efficiency.
• Demonstrate autonomy in your line of work, possessing time management skills, attention to detail and adaptability.
• Independently utilize stability issues capturing, processing and debugging technology to ensure issue accuracy.
• Collaborate closely with the Automation Implementation team to align on auto-test needs in accordance with stability data gaps.
• Actively participate in cross-discipline issue triage and prioritization efforts to drive issue resolution through impact and likelihood argumentation.
Requirements
• 5+ years of applicable work experience.
• In-depth knowledge of AAA software/game development (SDLC/STLC), including both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience working with source code control software such as Perforce or GIT and ability to identify and report technical issues.
• Experience working with debugging tech/tools such as Visual Studio, Windows Debugger, etc.
• Experience in working with different issue stability types. Ability to initiate root cause analysis investigations for each (memory crash/leak, logic/code crash, rendering crash, fatal/non-fatal assert, hang/freeze, etc.).
• Experience working with project crash collection tools and databases (Backtrace, Juice, etc.).
• Work with medium to large-scale on-site teams and with external partners.
• Experience with Upstream Quality practices, such as: CI/CD, bug prevention and containment tools and strategies.
• Experience with any of the following test automation environments: Games, Console, Mobile or Web UI, Backend.
• Compile data points spanning multiple sources into cohesive and consumable summaries for senior team members.
• Defect, Test Case and Task tracking tool experience (JIRA, DevTrack, Test Rail, or Hansoft).
About Electronic Arts
We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.
We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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