Senior QA Analyst

Job Description

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.

What You'll Do

Epic is seeking a QA Analyst to join our Fortnite Battle Royale Gameplay Team. The gameplay team is responsible for the Battle Royale gameplay, items, vehicles and more for our players to actively engage with every season. You will be working directly with our Designers, Engineers, and Producers on this project as an area owner, overseeing the evaluation and planning of testing, allocating your time between deep investigations and reporting on test efforts for your area to drive the quality bar in the Fortnite Battle Royale Gameplay space. To be set up for success, the person in this role should have experience with end-to-end feature ownership and risk assessment while being flexible in a fast-paced environment.

In this role, you will
• Work with product owners, developers and QA management to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming features / releases.
• Build test strategies and test plans to cover multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Understand and factor planning around functional, qualitative, and performance testing efforts
• Use a mix of manual and technical testing skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across your product to analyze the quality of said product
• Track and Report on quality data, and utilize that data to drive conversations around product quality and development health
• Verify fixes are implemented correctly throughout the product cycle in both consumer and development environments.
• Become a subject matter expert of the Gameplay space in relation to Fortnite.

What we're looking for
• Ability to adapt and respond to an ever changing landscape.
• 3+ years of software testing experience in a fast paced environment
• Solid understanding of test methodologies and iterative development
• Experience in functional and usability testing in your domain of expertise
• Experience with cross-platform or cross-browser testing
• Knowledge in one or more of these areas: Game Engines or 3D Software toolsets Backend servers and APIs Games as a Service model development Agile/Reactive test strategies UE4/5 game engine experience (or similar)

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj31o2-18-222-98-29-42 in your application.