Next Level Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo Co., Ltd.We’ve been passionate about video game development for 20 years now, shipping award-winning games for fans across the world and still going strong. Some of our titles include Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out!!, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Metroid Prime Federation Force, Luigi’s Mansion 3 and most recently Mario Strikers™: Battle League.

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As a Senior QA Automation Engineer at Fortis Games, you'll be pivotal in building and maintaining quality assurance frameworks.  Key responsibilities include designing and implementing test automation and efficiency tools for QA and Product teams, partnering with QA and Development leaders to define requirements and leverage appropriate technologies. You'll contribute to the architecture and test suite, define tooling and best practices for QA automation, and help shape Fortis' overall advanced test strategy.  This role involves collaborating closely with teams, demonstrating ownership, and contributing to tech innovations within the team.  You'll also be involved in building core test suites and providing support and maintenance for the existing test architecture.

Games where you belong. Come build with us. Visit www.fortisgames.com to learn more.

Senior QA Engineer

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QA Manager

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 <div class="content-intro">Who we are
At Fortis Games we aspire to make great games that bring people together while redefining how game companies work. We believe in building a sense of belonging through our games, their communities, and how we operate and treat each other. Through our game communities, we will create powerful connections and lasting memories. We will foster a culture of diversity, equity and belonging where together our diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds impact the games we make.
We are an early but mighty organization with a leadership team of game industry veterans. There are many opportunities for you to have a big impact on the products we'll be making as well as the overall direction of the company. If you're passionate about tackling difficult problems with direct and thoughtful communication and team first mentality, we may be the right place for you.</div>

 About the role
As a Senior QA Engineer in the Central Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining our quality assurance frameworks, actively contributing to the delivery of team goals and features. You will own and design test automation and efficiency tools for our QA and Product teams. You’ll partner with our QA and Development leaders to identify the best opportunities and technology for our projects and contribute towards the architecture and tests suite to reach our quality assurance goals.&nbsp; This role offers opportunities for growth, research &amp; innovation, and having your ideas heard and making a meaningful impact.
What you’ll achieve
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<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Partner with the Staff QA Engineer and contribute to our central test framework, partnering with QA and Dev leaders in defining ongoing requirements.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Contributing with ideas that enable tech innovations within the team.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Contribute to building a suite of automated tests for internal tooling.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Be part of creating our initial core test suites and have an opportunity to define quality from the early stages.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Provide support and maintenance of our test architecture to the needs and requests of the game and engineering teams.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Contribute to defining tooling and solutions that serve as best practices for QA automation efforts.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Be part of the team defining the overall Fortis QA advanced test strategy for all projects.</li>
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What You’ll Need to Be Successful
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<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Proficiency in programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Python) and experience with front-end frameworks (React, Angular) and Node.js.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Contribution to building or extending automation frameworks using libraries such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium WebDriver.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Knowledge of AWS cloud services, including S3, EC2, and messaging services.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Familiarity with RDBMS such as Postgres, preferably with the ability to write SQL queries. Familiarity with MongoDB Atlas would be an asset.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Strong understanding of API contract testing.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Good understanding of Linux environment and CI/CD workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Experience working with infrastructure, DevOps, and orchestration tools like Terraform &amp; Terragrunt would be a plus.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Demonstrated ability to work embedded within a team to identify their technical needs and goals.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Proven ownership and autonomy, driving quality initiatives and projects.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Strong verbal and written English skills required for effective collaboration within a global team.</li>
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 <div class="content-conclusion">Why join us
There are many reasons to join us, but here are a few:
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<li style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">We strongly believe we are changing how games studios operate and at the core of what we do is making great games that create a connected community</li>
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<div class="ql-block" data-block-id="block-447fe2c6-0ed1-4f55-aed7-0abbc05c90cf">We're not just about making Games Where You Belong. We're also about building communities where our people belong. That's why Fortis is a thriving environment that celebrates diversity, embraces inclusivity, and fosters growth.</div>
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<div class="ql-block" data-block-id="block-db04cf6f-5d50-4537-baef-4fedef960b04">Build and grow with a seasoned team of accomplished talent who have left an impactful mark in their disciplines, both in and out of gaming</div>
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Fortis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.</div>
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Data Structures and Algorithms

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Programming Patterns

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Object Oriented Programming

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Unity Game Engine

As a Technical Animation Lead at STUDIONext Level Games, you'll be responsible for bringing Nintendo characters to life. You'll work closely with artists, animators, designers, and engineers to ensure the highest quality assets are delivered within the constraints of a real-time development environment. You'll also be responsible for creating robust and efficient control rigs that make animators' lives easier.  Your expertise in rigging and animation will be critical in solving technical challenges and ensuring a seamless workflow.  You'll also be involved in mentoring and developing team members.

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 <div id="resumator-job-description"><h4 style="margin-top:3px;">STUDIO </h4>Next Level Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo Co. Ltd. We’ve been passionate about video game development for 20 years now, shipping award-winning games for fans across the world and still going strong. Some of our titles include Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out!!, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Metroid Prime Federation Force, Luigi’s Mansion 3 and most recently Mario Strikers™: Battle League. At NLG, we believe that a project finds success when we collaborate. Therefore, we place careful consideration to build an environment where everyone feels welcome and has fun in the process of achieving our shared goals.<h4> THE ROLE</h4>We are looking for a Technical Animation Lead who is excited to bring Nintendo characters to life by understanding every detail of NLG’s character production workflow and who is particularly focused on how rigging supports our award-winning animation team. At NLG, a diverse team of craftspeople each contribute their expertise toward a shared goal of lifting Nintendo’s legendary IP to new heights of expressiveness, storytelling, and gameplay.&nbsp; This person will be a bridge builder and can see the whole character production pipeline from start to finish, shaping how we build our characters.&nbsp; This person also understands the Art Director’s goals, the Modelers’ tools, the Animators’ wants, and the Engineers’ runtime performance budget.&nbsp; When a creative problem can be solved by multiple approaches, this person is comfortable weighing the differences and communicating those options and tradeoffs, collaboratively helping the team converge on the best creative outcome. That collaboration is borne out in amazing control rigs which put smiles on our animators’ faces. RESPONSIBILITIES:<ul><li>Proactively collaborate with Directors, Character Artists, Animators, Designers and Engineers to help deliver the highest quality assets possible within the constraints of a real-time development environment.<ul><li>Consistently partner with animators to unblock their potential.</li><li>Support artists and animators in developing new techniques to solve character production, pipeline challenges and ensure clean handoffs.</li><li>Collaborate with the stakeholder teams to understand the technical and creative requirements for assets and suggest solutions for technical issues.</li><li>Work with the concept team to ensure downstream considerations are evaluated and discussed early.</li><li>Ensure the outsourcing partners have the resources to be productive and informed.</li><li>Help identify workflow deficiencies and communicate requirements for improvement with the tools team.</li><li>Partner with production to budget, prioritize, assign, track and organize all content deliverables.</li><li>Ensure a constructive, collaborative relationship between the Modeling, Rigging, and Animation departments.</li></ul></li><li>Oversee building of prototype assets where applicable to unblock teams.</li><li>Ensure creation of robust, efficient and intuitive body and facial controls.</li><li>Ensure team growth and mentorship in craft excellence.</li><li>Ensure creation of documentation, onboarding plans, and feedback for the technical production of characters, animation and prop assets.</li><li>Brings teams together through consistent and effective communication.</li><li>Represent studio values through modeling behaviour and approach as a leader.</li></ul>&nbsp;<h4>KEY QUALIFICATIONS:</h4><ul><li>7+ years of experience as a 3D technical artist in video games and film.</li><li>Have worked on at least one major project as a team lead.</li><li>Experience setting up and maintaining 3D art pipelines and workflows.</li><li>Intimate knowledge of Maya and strong understanding of Maya's rigging tools.</li><li>Ability to pioneer practical production-oriented rig systems and workflows.</li><li>Deep knowledge of animator workflows.</li><li>Ability to apply technical skills to solve rigging and animation problems.</li><li>Strong understanding of rigging optimization and budgeting as they pertain to game engine.</li><li>Proficient with modeling and topology adjustments related to character deformations.</li><li>Expertise in Python and/or C++ – specifically as it applies to programming and tool creation in Maya (MEL and API).</li><li>Working knowledge of shaders, specifically as they relate to animation.</li><li>Experience with Project Management (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint) tools.</li><li>Experience with Source Control (Perforce) software.</li></ul><h4> YOU SET YOURSELF ABOVE WITH:</h4><ul><li>Proactive, technical problem solver and a team player.</li><li>Driven by cross-discipline collaborative environments.</li><li>Excel at constructively giving and receiving feedback.</li><li>Experience supporting and maintaining cinematics workflows.</li><li>A strong understanding of the principles of animation.</li><li>Ability to research and apply new approaches to push our character capabilities.</li><li>Ability to create high quality content.</li><li>Stay adaptable to the iterative needs of the team by leaning into curiosity, experimentation and growth mindset.</li></ul> This is a hybrid position, requiring at least three days per week at our Vancouver studio. The hiring range for this position is $ 100,000 &nbsp;– 144,000 CAD annually and is subject to change. The final base salary compensation will be based on factors such as skills, education, and experience. This position is also eligible for the benefits including discretionary performance bonus program, health benefits, and generous time-off. We wish to thank all applicants in advance; however, only those under consideration will be contacted. We are currently only considering applicants who already have work eligibility in Canada and can work on-site in Metro Vancouver.<div><div><div></div></div></div></div>
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