As an SDET Manager at Epic Games, you will lead and mentor a team of SDETs, developing automation frameworks for the Fortnite Ecosystem.  Responsibilities include crafting robust automation processes, building relationships with stakeholders, prioritizing and making trade-offs on technical roadmaps, and maintaining excellent technical practices. You will develop tools to enhance internal partner teams and contribute to test augmentation, backward compatibility, and performance stability.  The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, a deep understanding of game engines (UE4/Unity preferred), and experience with automation frameworks and CI/CD systems. Polyglot development experience is a plus.

<p>Epic Games is a leading entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology.</p>

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<span class="sc-jXbUNg btmRVe ue-rich-text  loc-en-US"><div class="content-intro"><h2>WHAT MAKES US EPIC?</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p></div><h2>QUALITY ASSURANCE</h2>
<h3><strong>What We Do</strong></h3>
<p>The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.</p>
<h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3>
<p>Our SDETs are first and foremost software engineers; they act as force multipliers for quality efforts across the business by providing tools, frameworks, coaching, and education. As we continue to grow a world-class technical organization within Quality Assurance, we are looking for an SDET Manager with proven leadership and test engineering vision for our Fortnite Ecosystem team.</p>
<h3><strong>In this role, you will</strong></h3>
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<li>Develop automation frameworks from the ground up, making decisions on what and where to prioritize, while developing team structures necessary to expand your efforts</li>
<li>Collaborate with QA and Development teams to craft automation processes that are robust, reliable, easy to use, and increase visibility into automated efforts and test augmentation</li>
<li>Build relationships and partnerships with internal customers and stakeholders across the company</li>
<li>Run teams teams that impact multiple projects across the Fortnite Ecosystem space</li>
<li>Mentor, coach, and develop a team of SDETs at various career stages</li>
<li>Maintain excellent technical practices e.g. refactoring, minimizing technical debt, and unit testing, with a focus on continuous improvement</li>
<li>Develop tools to assist in tester augmentation, backward compatibility, and performance stability</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>What we're looking for</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>6+ years of test engineering and automation frameworks</li>
<li>Excellent leadership skills, including mentorship, planning technical roadmaps, making trade-offs, and prioritization</li>
<li>Good knowledge of how game engines work; Experience with either UE4/Unity or a custom internal game engine</li>
<li>Ability to architect solutions for development and QA when solutions do not exist within the space required</li>
<li>Experience developing systems and tools that enhance the experience or capabilities of internal partner teams</li>
<li>Experience with automation frameworks and continuous integration systems</li>
<li>Ability to quickly understand complex tech stacks and find solutions that complement/extend rather than bypass existing investments</li>
<li>Experience with developing unit testing and integration testing strategies, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development</li>
<li>Experience with Polyglot development, working between full-stack systems, examples could be something like a Game Engine and an Online Service team, a full stack web application (service and frontend)</li>
<li>Games industry experience is a plus</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA &amp; WA). </strong></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pay Transparency Information</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).</span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">California Base Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$113,370</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$166,276 USD</span></div></div><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Washington Base Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$103,064</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$151,161 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><h2>ABOUT US</h2>
<p>Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.</p>
<h3><strong>Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!</strong></h3>
<p>Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .</p>
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