Test Lead

2 Months ago • 3 Years + • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

The Test Lead for Fortnite Battle Royale Gameplay at Epic Games will oversee testing of new weapons, items, and vehicles. Responsibilities include deeply understanding game features, creating and updating test cases, hiring and training a team of testers, managing daily tasks, prioritizing test requests, collaborating with internal/external teams, tracking defect rates, and reporting to stakeholders. This role requires strong leadership, technical skills, and excellent communication.
Must have:
  • 3+ years QA testing experience
  • 1+ year leadership experience
  • Experience with game testing & shipping
  • Technical skills & troubleshooting
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Jira experience
Perks:
  • 100% premium medical, dental, vision coverage
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years
  • Company-wide paid breaks

Job Details

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.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

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.

What You'll Do

We’re looking for a Test Lead to join the Fortnite Battle Royale Gameplay team overseeing the testing of Battle Royale’s biggest upcoming weapons, items, vehicles, and more. You'll love this role if you have a passion for both people and data, as your main focus will be growing a team of testers in skill and career development, and gathering data to report on testing status and product quality.

In this role, you will

  • Understand current and proposed future changes for Fortnite Battle Royale’s Gameplay features deeply enough to assess QA needs
  • Input, review, and update test cases for the Fortnite Battle Royale Gameplay QA team
  • Hire, train, and review testers effectiveness for Battle Royale and related QA teams
  • Supervise day to day tasking of testers to ensure the highest priority testing tasks are done
  • Evaluate and prioritize incoming test requests against product roadmap and quality objectives on a daily basis
  • Collaborate with both internal and external testing teams to balance workloads, ensuring highest priority tasks are allocated appropriately
  • Track and report on defect rates of test cycles and escalate major concerns to stakeholders in QA and beyond appropriately

What we're looking for

  • 3 years or more of QA Testing experience within a structured team
  • Experience working on one or more shipped game titles preferred
  • 1 year or more of leadership experience including: at least 3 months of management experience
  • Experience planning and scheduling testing alongside development milestones
  • Experience working collaboratively across multiple different teams in different time zones
  • Technical software or troubleshooting skills (degree in Computer Science or equivalent, self-taught, or relevant experience)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience working with bug tracking systems such as Jira. This includes logging bugs, tracking active issues, following up on completed tasks, and reporting on issues and project status
  • Employees will be required to be within commutable distance to the assigned office or studio to be available for in-person meetings and events as needed

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.

ABOUT US

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.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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 .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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