Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Utah.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with production, engineering, design, and QA teams to establish testing strategies, quality objectives, and risk management protocols.

• Advocate for contemporary quality practices that enhance coverage and speed up feedback.

• Discover enhancements through tools, workflow improvements, simulation, and data-driven validation.

• Create and uphold quality plans that balance hands-on testing, system validation, player assessment, and scalable methodologies.

• Test gameplay systems, progression, inventory, persistence, multiplayer, social systems, UI flows, stability, and performance metrics.

• Work alongside engineers to enhance test coverage, build verification, testing utilities, simulation tools, and quality workflows.

• Establish player simulation methodologies for multiplayer, progression, persistence, social interactions, and large-scale gameplay.

• Utilize telemetry, gameplay data, crash reporting, and quality metrics to evaluate trends and risks.

• Generate bug reports, assist in triage, validate fixes, and communicate player impact and root causes.

• Formulate testing methods for interconnected online systems and live-service functionalities.

• Provide guidance to internal and external QA contributors regarding priorities, feature intent, expected behaviors, and reporting standards.

• Assess emerging tools, technologies, methodologies, and quality practices.

• Represent players by providing actionable feedback on usability, accessibility, progression, multiplayer, and overall game quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional QA experience in game development.

• Demonstrated experience testing intricate gameplay systems and working with multidisciplinary development teams.

• Robust understanding of modern quality assurance practices and scalable testing methodologies.

• Proven ability to formulate testing strategies for complex and interconnected gameplay systems.

• Track record of enhancing quality outcomes through tools, telemetry, simulation, process enhancements, data analysis, or other innovative methods.

• Strong grasp of risk assessment and value-driven testing.

• Experience evaluating gameplay from both player experience and system behavior perspectives.

• Proficient in bug documentation, issue investigation, regression testing, and quality tracking using Jira, TestRail, or similar platforms.

• Comprehensive understanding of the game development lifecycle from prototyping to release and live operations.

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine, Unity, or comparable game development environments.

• Technical skills with development tools, telemetry systems, debugging environments, and diagnostic workflows.

• Ability to convey quality risks, priorities, and player impact across various disciplines.

• Strong organizational, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities.

• A passion for games and multiplayer experiences.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities that define your career.

• Thoughtfully curated benefits.

• Resources to help you explore and develop into your best self.

• Disability adjustments or accommodations provided during the job application and/or recruitment process.