Software Engineer III

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of The Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but strive to build a world as it could be.

The Quality Engineering team at EA holds an important role, collaborating with Quality Assurance and Game Development to enhance efficiencies through automation and workflow improvements.

This Software Engineer role in the Quality Engineering organization works with Quality Assurance and Game Development to create tools and technical strategies. The goal is to improve automation infrastructure and increasing efficiencies in the Game Development and QA processes. You will ensure a seamless partner experience, focusing on understanding our partner's needs and building proper tooling solutions to satisfy their requirements and blend in with their existing workflows. You will report to the Associate Technical Director, who will help you identify new technologies and develop new tools for testing. You will also be an on the ground leader in the local team and wider Quality Engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

• Build sustainable software tools, tests, and services to empower development teams, and Quality Assurance.
• Use modern software engineering processes and best practices for requirements, design, implementation, and testing.
• You will work with all disciplines to gather requirements, collaborate on solutions, and implement.
• Measurably improve process and best practices to achieve targets across a small team of engineers.
• Create clear documentation to support workflow processes.
• Develop automation frameworks, tools, engine components and processes used across studios.
• Design, author, test, and deploy automated tests to cover all test scenarios
• Interpret requests from your QA and engineering partners, account for and call out any roadblocks or efficiencies your partners may not consider, and propose and apply your creative or technical solutions.

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