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

People within the QA Engineer career track work with product owners, developers, and QA management to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming features/releases. You will develop and implement automation test strategies and utilize technical tooling to expand breadth and add depth to QA coverage of multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will facilitate functional, qualitative, and performance testing efforts while using a mix of manual and technical testing skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across your product to analyze and report on quality. You are expected to work in a highly autonomous environment embedded on a specific team or product while working closely with designers, engineers, and production staff, using a combination of quality assurance, data analysis, and technical skills to drive appropriate testing techniques early on in development through release cycles and beyond.

In this role, you will
• Working with product owners, developers and QA management to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming features / releases
• Examine technical gaps and automation initiatives between geographically distributed teams, vendors, and agencies to deliver the highest quality product
• Build test strategies and test plans to cover multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• 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 while troubleshooting reported defects and internal issues
• Be responsible for reporting and tracking for data quality, and using that data to drive conversations around product quality and development health, supporting developers before, during, and after deployments
• Test communications between the client and backend services

What we're looking for
• Previous experience creating tools or automation using C++
• Experience with software or games testing experience in a fast paced environment
• Experience with low level socket programing (TCP, UDP)
• Ability to confidently collaborate with senior members on technical topics and features
• Technical understanding of web, mobile, or game technologies, including automation, functional, qualitative, and performance against consistently iterative development, API endpoint testing at scale
• Previous working with data and/or analytics is a bonus
• Previous working with Unreal Engine, Client-server communications, HTTP, WebSockets, Catch2, Perforce a bonus

This role is open to multiple locations (including WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren't limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Washington Base Pay Range

$97,047 - $142,336 USD

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