QA Games Tester - CDD

Company Description

Old Skull Games (OSG) is an independent studio of about 60 people working in parallel on 3 to 4 projects on mobile, console, and PC. Our games cover a wide range of genres - from platformers to roguelites, to narrative experiences - offering our teams great creative diversity.

We operate according to Agile principles: autonomous and multidisciplinary teams make their own decisions, are responsible for their results, and receive leadership support through a clear framework, coaching, and adapted tools.

Our main value is simple: create exceptional games that players love. We are proud of the good atmosphere within the studio, which fosters motivation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

We use OKRs to align our strategic objectives and measure our success. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the definition and achievement of our key objectives like everyone at OSG!

Apply now and get ready for an incredible adventure at Old Skull Games!

Job Description

Your Mission:

As a QA Tester, you will be a key partner, integrated into the heart of our production teams. You will be the guarantor of quality on several of our projects (PC, consoles, mobile) in an Agile and reactive environment.

Your main mission will be to act as a "gatekeeper" of quality: you will validate the development team's work before it is integrated, thus ensuring the daily stability of our projects.

Your Responsibilities:

• Feature Validation (Pull Requests): Your most critical task. You will test and validate each feature (Pull Request) in direct collaboration with the development team. You will ensure that the acceptance criteria of the JIRA story are met before approving the merge to the main branch.
• Execution & Analysis: In addition to PRs, execute exploratory tests to identify complex problems. Help isolate their cause (logs, debug tools).
• Test Planning: Develop and maintain robust test plans for new features, game systems, and non-regression tests.
• Bug Management: Ensure rigorous tracking of issues in JIRA (creation, prioritization, verification of fixes).
• External QA Support: Communicate daily with our external QA partners to inform them of builds ready for testing. Serve as a technical point of contact to provide context on features and game areas ready for testing, and answer their questions about implementation or test plans.
• Agile Integration: Actively participate in the life of development teams (daily scrums, sprint planning, retrospectives) to anticipate testing needs.
• Multi-platform: Ensure functional and regression testing on PC, consoles, and mobile.
• Documentation: Write and maintain clear test documentation (test cases, checklists).

Qualifications

Your Profile (Required Skills):

• Communication: You communicate with precision and clarity, in French as well as in English, to constructively challenge acceptance criteria if necessary.
• Experience: You have at least 2 years of QA experience in video games, including significant experience (1 year+) directly in a development team.
• Tools: You master JIRA (or similar) and a test case management tool (TestRail, Xray, or even G-Suite/Excel).
• Test Execution: You know how to create a test plan from specifications (or in their absence) and write test cases that others can follow.
• Methodology: You are familiar with Agile (Scrum/Kanban): You understand the importance of testing early and often, and the concept of feature validation.

The Pluses (Appreciated Skills):

• Ability to work autonomously and juggle priorities across multiple projects.
• Experience with a game engine (e.g., Unity, Unreal).
• Knowledge of certification requirements (TRC, TCR, XR) for at least one console platform (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft) or Apple Arcade.
• Experience with test automation tools dedicated to video games.
• Demonstrated experience in testing on mobile platforms (iOS via TestFlight, Android) and their specificities.
• Knowledge of the localization QA process.
• Experience on the Steam platform (Steamworks).
• Direct experience with source control tools (Github, Perforce, Gitea etc.) and CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, Jenkins etc.).

Additional Information

• Fixed-term contract
• Position to be filled in Villeurbanne, Lyon - as soon as possible
• Compensation according to profile and experience
• Profit-sharing
• Restaurant vouchers, health insurance, provident fund, 60% reimbursement of transport costs, sustainable mobility package, on-site parking, holiday bonus

OSG little extras:

• Exceptional teams!
• Warm atmosphere guaranteed
• Flexible hours for a balanced life
• Hybrid format with on-site and remote work
• Paid sick leave for children, family first!
• Our weekly team breakfasts
• Our essential annual Summer Camp
• Gourmet provisions: fruit baskets, drinks and coffee available...
• Regular sports sessions organized for optimal health
• Paid leave: Ultra flexibility, take it when you need it
• Our premises: rooftop, concierge, shower, quiet with Parc Tête d'or nearby...
• Additional leave for RQTH individuals: more time to take care of their health
• CSE offers (reduced cinema tickets, gift vouchers, Gymlib, goodies, etc.)

Old Skull Games is committed to inclusion and equal opportunities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people with disabilities. If you have specific needs to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know and we will do our best to meet your needs.