LQA Senior Tester

1 Month ago • 3-8 Years • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Tester is responsible for expert-level testing, ensuring efficiency and accuracy. They act as a mentor and resource for the team, handling queries, coordinating bug checks, and assisting with administrative tasks. Responsibilities include game testing, mentoring junior testers, monitoring team morale, coordinating bug fixing, smoke testing new builds, and assisting the Test Lead. The role requires strong analytical and observational skills, excellent communication, and proficiency in using MS Office Suite. Experience with compliance testing and understanding of LQA/game development processes are essential. The successful candidate will be proficient in their native language and be based in Montreal or Ottawa.
Must have:
  • Level 3 tester or higher
  • Excellent native language skills
  • Strong time management
  • Analytical and detail-oriented
  • Proactive issue escalation
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Testing experience
  • MS Office proficiency
  • Understanding of LQA/game development
Good to have:
  • Compliance testing familiarity
  • Passion for games

Job Details

Description

version française ci-dessous

THE SELECTED CANDIDATE CAN WORK FROM MONTREAL OR OTTAWA LOCATION

LE CANDIDAT SÉLECTIONNÉ POURRA TRAVAILLER DE MONTREAL OU D'OTTAWA

Job Purpose

The Senior Tester is expected to be an expert tester and to be autonomous in their testing, effective testing is always the main role of the Senior Tester. The testing team as well as the Test Lead need to be able to rely on his experience and knowledge to take the right decisions. It is also the duty of the Senior Tester to spread their knowledge to the rest of the test team. When the Test Lead is busy, the Senior Tester is the first point of contact for the team. Their main additional responsibility is to become the relay between the team and the Test Lead. When the workload requires it, the Test Lead can require the Senior Tester’s help for managerial tasks like vetting, help on internal communications, or setting up the team and project.

Key Responsibilities and Activities

  • Test the game in their native language
  • Be an example for others
  • Be the most informed tester on the project (project specific knowledge, workflows)
  • Coach other testers who are not familiar with the project/team
  • Monitor morale and motivation
  • Handle small requests from the other testers
  • Be the filter for and coordinate small queries
  • Help integrating new testers in a changing project team
  • Coordinate bug checking
  • Smoke testing (be the first to get their hands on a build)
  • Coordinate crosschecking of bugs
  • Assist the Test Lead with administrative tasks when asked:
  • Send attendance report
  • Assist testers with technical setup of stations, resolving issues where possible.
    • Bug vetting
    • Edit vetting
    • Monitor tester progression and adherence to testing strategy
    • Handling builds
    • Lead compliance work

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Objectif du poste

Le testeur sénior se doit d’être un testeur expert et d’être autonome dans ses tests, l’efficacité étant toujours primordiale pour un testeur sénior. L’équipe de test ainsi que les testeurs en chef doivent pouvoir se fier sur son expérience et son savoir pour être en mesure de prendre les bonnes décisions. Il est également de la responsabilité du testeur sénior de partager ses connaissances avec le reste de l’équipe. Lorsque le chef d’équipe est occupé, le testeur sénior devient le premier point de contact pour l’équipe. Sa responsabilité principale additionnelle est de devenir l’intermédiaire entre l’équipe et le chef d’équipe. Lorsque la charge de travail le demande, le chef d’équipe peut faire appel au testeur sénior pour l’assister dans différentes tâches de gestion, telles que la révision/validation, les communications internes ainsi que la mise en place des équipes.

Responsabilités principales et activités

  • Tester le jeu dans sa langue natale
  • Être un exemple pour les autres
  • Être le testeur le plus informé sur le projet (connaissances propres au projet, échéancier)
  • Mentorer les autres testeurs qui sont moins familiers avec le projet/l’équipe
  • Surveiller le moral et la motivation de l’équipe
  • Répondre à certaines petites requêtes des autres testeurs
  • Agir comme filtre et coordonner les petites requêtes
  • Aider à intégrer les nouveaux testeurs sur un projet
  • Coordonner la vérification de bogues
  • Être le premier à se familiariser avec les nouvelles versions d’un jeu
  • Coordonner le recoupement des bogues
  • Assister le chef d’équipe avec des tâches administratives lorsque requis :
  • Envoyer les rapports d’assiduité
  • Assister les testeurs avec la mise en place de leur espace de travail
    • Validation/révision de bogue
    • Surveiller la progression des testeurs et leur adhérence aux stratégies de test
    • Se charger des versions du jeu
    • Mener le travail de certification

Requirements

Essential

  • Occupy a position of Level 3 tester or higher
  • Excellent in their native language
  • Good time management skills
  • Approachable
  • Strong observational skills, analytical and detail oriented
  • Proactive in completing tasks and escalating issues appropriately
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Tester experience
  • MS Office skills (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Familiar with compliance testing
  • Understanding of LQA / game development process
  • Passion for games

Desirable

  • Familiar with compliance testing
  • Understanding of LQA / game development process
  • Passion for games

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Essentielle

  • Occuper le poste de testeur niveau 3 ou plus
  • Excellente maîtrise de sa langue natale
  • Bonne gestion du temps
  • Facile d’approche
  • Bonnes habiletés d’observation et d’analyse
  • Grande attention aux détails
  • Proactivité et bonne gestion des priorités
  • Très bonnes capacités interpersonnelles
  • Expérience comme testeur
  • Familiarité et aisance avec la suite office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Familiarité avec le travail de certification
  • Compréhension des processus en LQA et en développement de jeux

Désirable

  • Familiarité avec le travail de certification
  • Compréhension des processus en LQA et en développement de jeux
  • Passion pour les jeux vidéo


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