Associate Quality Designer - Frostbite (one year contract)

Join Electronic Arts' Frostbite team as an Associate Quality Designer, focusing on the Characters domain. This role involves collaborating with development partners in Europe, managing tasks, identifying risks, and improving quality processes. You will investigate problems, perform exploratory tests, regression test bugs, and create test plans and cases. This is a hybrid, one-year contract position based in Bucharest, Romania, offering an opportunity to develop skills in game development quality assurance.

Must Have

• Foster relationships with development partners based in Europe
• Handle incoming tasks and changes in priority
• Identify and mitigate risks
• Improve the quality of your team's process and workflows
• Investigate problems to identify culprit changes
• Assist team in fixing issues
• Perform exploratory tests of new features
• Regression test bugs
• Create test plans and test cases
• Understanding of software development processes (Agile and Waterfall)
• Familiarity with source control, debuggers, and other software development tools
• Familiarity with project planning tools and defect tracking and test case tools
• 2 or more years of QA software testing and test planning

Good to Have

• Experience with game engines, content & asset editors, and shared technologies
• Experience with testing automation

Perks & Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• Mental well-being support
• Retirement savings
• Paid time off
• Family leaves
• Complimentary games

General Information

Locations: Bucharest, Romania

Role ID: 210776

Worker Type: Temporary Employee

Studio/Department: CT - Frostbite

Work Model: Hybrid

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Join us in Frostbite, EA's multi-platform game development engine, powering industry-leading titles like Battlefield 6 and FC26. Our global team develops engine features and tools, working together to support creators and deliver outstanding games.

You will work hybrid and onsite, and you will report to the team's Development Director based in Vancouver, Canada.

Why join the Frostbite Team?

As an Associate Quality Designer for Frostbite, you'll help uphold the quality of our Characters domain. You'll collaborate with experienced quality professionals, contributing directly to our quality goals, This is an opportunity to develop your skills, work with passionate colleagues, and help shape the future of game development.

Responsibilities:

• Foster relationships with development partners based in Europe. Ensure their evolving needs are met and they are updated with relevant information.
• Handle incoming tasks and changes in priority and identify and, mitigate risks.
• Look for opportunities to improve the quality of your team's process and workflows.
• Investigate problems to identify culprit changes and assist team in fixing it.
• Perform exploratory tests of new features, regression test bugs, create test plans and test cases.

Required Skills:

• Understanding of software development processes (Agile and Waterfall)
• Familiarity with source control, debuggers, and other software development tools (e.g. Perforce, Visual Studio).
• Familiarity with project planning tools and defect tracking and test case tools (JIRA, Qmetry)
• 2 or more years of QA software testing and test planning

Bonus:

• Experience with game engines, content & asset editors, and shared technologies.
• Experience with testing automation

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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