QA Specialist

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What makes us Epic?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

What we do

We’re looking for a QA Specialist within the FAB team to help us make the future of our products strong! You will work to develop and implement test plans, execute testing, and utilize tooling to expand the breadth and depth of our QA coverage in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. As a QA Specialist, you will also help to support the team's efforts around testing approach, execution, and risk assessment.

What You'll Do

As a QA Specialist, you will work directly with our designers, engineers, producers, etc., on a regular basis. You will develop and implement test plans, execute testing, and utilize tooling to expand the breadth and depth of our QA coverage. We are looking for a teammate who is passionate about testing and will be responsible for owning the test process, risk management, and quality evaluation of the project features. You are expected to work closely with other team members and vendors on a daily basis.

In this role, you will

• Work with QA analysts, QA engineers, QA leadership, SDETs, product owners, and developers to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, plan test coverage, and execute against the plans. 
• Build and drive test strategies and test plans to cover multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Examine gaps in test plan and approach, collaborating with geographically distributed teams to deliver the highest quality version of the product, possible.
• Coordinate functional, qualitative, and performance testing efforts.
• Use a mix of manual and technical testing skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across the product.
• Analyze the quality of the product while troubleshooting reported defects and internal issues.
• Track and Report on quality data and use that data to drive conversations around product quality and development health.
• Verify fixes are implemented correctly throughout the product life cycle.
• Effective and on-time completion of related test documentation.

What we're looking for

• Ability to adapt and respond to an ever-changing landscape
• 5+ years of web software testing experience in a fast-paced environment with an ability to juggle multiple projects
• Experience working embedded in SDLC
• Expertise in creating/modifying end-to-end test plans of high complexity across multiple iterations/development cycles
• Experience utilizing Xcode for iOS and ADB for Android - for native mobile application development and testing.
• Past experience testing web-based features for frontend and backend services and creating detailed test plans and test cases.
• Experience using tools such as Browser Developer Tools, POstman, Charles, Android Debug Bridge, and other testing tools to help facilitate troubleshooting and testing.
• Problem-solving experience especially in technical environments utilizing debugging tools to investigate and report on results (Postman, Chrome Debug tools, Firebug, etc.)
• Solid understanding of test methodologies - Including functional, risk based, automation, qualitative, and performance against consistently iterative development.
• Strong communication skills and ability to confidently collaborate with product teams and senior dev engineers for day-to-day testing requirements and collaboration.
• You are user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.