Devtest Team Lead

Job Description

Home to the North American Ubisoft headquarters since 1996, Ubisoft San Francisco opened its development studio in 2009 and since developed Rocksmith® and Rocksmith 2014, to teach millions of people how to play guitar and bass. With a song library of over 1,500 songs and 10 years of support the Rocksmith franchise helped millions of players around the world on their musical journey. In 2017, the studio released the critically acclaimed South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™, in collaboration with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and South Park Digital Studios. The studio is currently working on innovative new titles with Rocksmith+ and XDefiant.

Job Description

As a DevTest Team Lead at Ubi SFO, you will facilitate and maintain the quality of new and existing content/features for our FPS game, XDefiant. You will be the main DevTest point of contact for your respective group of features or content and facilitate healthy communication and practices across multiple areas. Your mission is to guide a team of testers to uphold and enforce strong processes for a successful live product. You are very familiar with the design and intricacies of the first-person shooter genre across different franchises. This knowledge will be used to help make informed and precise decisions throughout the project in different areas.

This is a Hybrid role and would require Mondays and Tuesdays of each week on site in San Francisco.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
• Communicate with Producers and Leads from every team (Engineers, Level Design, Animators etc.) and facilitate the flow of information with the team
• Communicate with the QC Lead Testers throughout the project's different milestones
• Management and mentorship of Dev Testers and Snr Dev Testers; including 1:1s
• Coordinate the daily workflow of Testers and assign tasks to the respective feature/content owner
• Assist the DevTest Manager coordinate all of the different test cases, configure and refine JIRA filters/dashboards for the team
• Provide risk analysis reports to the DevTest Manager relative to their ownership
• Follow up in the JIRA database and push the production team to correct the various major issues in order to stabilize build versions
• Implement new processes to meet the requirements of the project set by the DevTest Manager
• Ensure test plans and documentation are updated, relevant to existing content/features
• Ensure the validation/testing coverage of live builds
• You are the main point of contact for the respective group of Content and Features
• Interview candidates; hire, onboard, and train new employees
• Follow up and evaluate the work of testers to share with the DevTest Manager

Qualifications

WHAT YOU'LL BRING
• Lead or Seniority experience of at least one year's experience in a similar industry
• Shipped at least one AAA title on multiple platforms
• Testing experience with mid to senior level of experience
• Extensive knowledge of the FPS video game genre
• Exceptional experience in writing test-cases and setting up test procedures
• Proactive working manner and sense of accountability
• Exceptional experience with JIRA or other bug-tracking systems
• Exceptional experience with Confluence or similar documentation tools

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3exbx-18-118-122-223-42 in your application.