QA Specialist

King is looking for a QA Specialist to join the Catalog Games studio in Barcelona. This role involves ensuring high-quality player experiences by promoting good QA practices, assisting with test strategy, design, and execution, and investigating defects. The specialist will also help build test plans, identify risks, and coordinate with other teams to integrate and test key features, contributing to continuous improvement of QA processes.

Must Have

• Be the main point of contact regarding quality and testing related matters for the team
• Promote good QA practices, for example, exploratory testing, agile testing, test automation and risk based testing
• Assist the teams with test strategy, test design, test execution, defect analysis/root cause investigation, test reporting and improving the bug process
• Help build and maintain test plans and test cases for the games features
• Identify and communicate risks that are or have potential to impact other teams in relation to the overall quality of our products
• Understand how the games integrate with King tech products
• Coordinate with other tech teams and game teams when integrating and testing key features
• Be active in the continuous improvement of QA processes at King
• Be aware of and actively drive the vision agreed for the QA craft organisation

Good to Have

• Experience of working in the gaming industry especially mobile
• Knowledge of TestRail (or similar testing tools)
• Knowledge of game engines Unreal, Unity, etc
• Knowledge of JIRA, or similar issue tracking software
• Scripting/coding experience

Craft:

Technology & Development

Job Description:

We are looking for a QA Specialist with organization and testing skills to join an extraordinary team with dynamic strengths. You’ll be part of the Catalog Games studio, which leads a portfolio of 9 games.

You’ll be responsible for helping to produce incredible experiences for our players with the level of high quality that King stands for. The QA Specialist needs to live and breathe quality, and you will be part of a creative, ambitious and agile environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your agile testing expertise. Your role is embedded in the agile teams and focuses on bug prevention, mentoring the teams about quality and testing, and evangelizing shared responsibility for quality.

Your role within our Kingdom

Be the main point of contact regarding quality and testing related matters for the team

Promote good QA practices, for example, exploratory testing, agile testing, test automation and risk based testing

Assist the teams with test strategy, test design, test execution, defect analysis/root cause investigation, test reporting and improving the bug process

Help build and maintain test plans and test cases for the games features

Identify and communicate risks that are or have potential to impact other teams in relation to the overall quality of our products

Understand how the games integrate with King tech products

Coordinate with other tech teams and game teams when integrating and testing key features

Be active in the continuous improvement of QA processes at King

Be aware of and actively drive the vision agreed for the QA craft organisation.

Skills to build thrills

Experience and/or curiosity about working with mobile, tools and middleware QA

Excellent communication skills

Ability to build strong working relationships with team members

Awareness of test automation frameworks

Bonus points

Experience of working in the gaming industry especially mobile

Knowledge of TestRail (or similar testing tools)

Knowledge of game engines Unreal, Unity, etc

Knowledge of JIRA, or similar issue tracking software

Scripting/coding experience