Quality Designer - Frostbite

Frostbite is EA's multi-platform game development engine. We empower creators to shape the future of gaming and we achieve this by developing creative engine features and outstanding tools. Our experienced team from across the globe is dedicated to building new technology and collaborating to ship amazing games. Frostbite powers some of the most stunning games in the industry along with deep player experiences. This is an opportunity to join a team to help promote quality across Frostbite and EA, reporting to the Frostbite Quality Development Manager. Note that Quality Designers may also be called Quality Analysts, Quality Assurance Leads, or Test Leads.

Summary

As a Quality Designer for Frostbite, you will identify, report on, and achieve quality targets for the Audio and Movies domain within the engine. You will work with other quality professionals to determine quality standards and achieve quality goals in the Audio and Movie domain with us.

Responsibilities

You will:

• Foster relationships with development partners. Proactively ensure their evolving needs are met and they are updated throughout the development cycle.
• Collate and track measurements. Analyze and use data to develop theories for experiments and highlight risks..
• Plan, assess, and prioritize work, report on status and progress, and identify cross project risks and mitigate.
• Partner and collaborate with QA colleagues to find and produce group-wide quality improvements to processes and workflows
• Investigate problems to understand the root cause
• Create test plans and milestones, both automated and manual, execute plans to completion.

Qualifications

You have:

• Comp Sci terminology and SDLC and processes (Agile preferred) knowledge.
• Source control, debuggers, and other software development tools (e.g. Perforce, Visual Studio) familarity.
• QA software testing and test planning: 2 + years
• Sound design or audio implementation in Games, Film or Music: 2+ years
• MS windows OS proficient

Bonus

You have:

• Used game engines, content/asset editors ( Wwise, Fmod, Pro tools, Reaper, Nuendo, Unreal, Unity, Sound forge) and game pipelines
• Used planning tools and defect tracking tools ( e.g. Qmetry, JIRA)
• Used 3D audio: Dolby Atmos, 7.1.4 speaker setups
• Used Audio and console hardware, synthesizers, plug-ins and DSP used in music production

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