Senior QA Engineer

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

This position owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of a given Fortnite feature, functionality or set of work, where you will be part of a rapidly iterating development team working closely with professional and highly technical developers. As such, you will be at the center of both game and engine development and technology at Epic and the wider game industry.

If you're excited about working in a fast-paced environment and are highly motivated to ensure the best possible user experience, then we'd like to speak with you!

In this role, you will
• Work with QA analysts, QA management, product owners, and other developers to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, plan test coverage, and, crucially, build tooling and automation to improve efficiency across the team
• Examine technical gaps and automation initiatives to ensure quality for Unreal Engine developer tools and build.
• Build and drive test strategies and test plans to cover multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Use a mix of technical and manual QA skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across your product to analyze quality while discovering or troubleshooting reported defects and internal issues
• Report and track data quality and use that data to drive conversations around product quality and development health, supporting the dev team before, during, and after deployments
• Test communications between the client and backend services

What we're looking for
• 3+ years of professional QA experience in a software or game testing environment
• 1+ years of professional coding experience or Computer Science Bachelor's Degree
• Previous experience creating tools or automation using Python, C++, C#, or Verse
• Experience with root cause analysis of defects
• Strong communication skills with the ability to confidently collaborate on technical topics and features
• Technical understanding of build, game, mobile or web technologies, including automation, functional, qualitative, and performance against consistently iterative development

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4b55y-18-227-49-73-42 in your application.