Why Big Fish Games?
Big Fish Games is the home of some of the biggest hit mobile casual games including EverMerge, Gummy Drop!, Cooking Craze, Fairway Solitaire, and many more.
We are curious and constantly seek improvement in all we do because that’s what our business demands
We operate with good intentions, confidence, and humility
We welcome diversity of background, thought, and experience
We listen actively and value each other
We foster a fun environment that inspires creativity
Overview
The Big Fish Games SDK provides the core foundational features for our games. This role covers the development and engineering of our publishing ecosystem for client authentication, compliance, telemetry, purchasing, and user acquisition attribution. It provides a consistent, compliant, and stable platform for mobile game development that actively supports our existing portfolio while accelerating all new game development. We collaborate with internal and partner studios around the world to publish the best casual games. The Big Fish Central Tech team is looking for a passionate and experienced engineer to take our SDK to the next level by updating the technology, improving development workflow, and extending functionality so game developers can spend more time focusing on making great games. The SDK consists of Unity C#, Android Java / Kotlin, iOS Objective-C/Swift, and is the backbone of all titles published by Big Fish Games.
What You'll Do
As a Mobile Applications QA Developer, you will work with a product manager, engineering manager, Dev team to validate the various functions of our Big Fish SDK for Android and iOS, ensuring that our portfolio of casual games is up to date in the stores and customers can continue playing. Our aim is to make automation the primary way we test and validate our SDK releases. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the technical direction for a world class SDK.
What We're Looking For
5+ Years in Mobile Application Testing: A proven track record in Android and iOS, highlighting your competence and readiness for new challenges on these platforms
5+ years automating tests across unit, integration, system, functional, and non functional cases
2+ years of Unity experience - our games are based on Unity and experience testing in that framework ensures a consistent developer experience
Test Frameworks - professional experience in using a variety of test frameworks to accomplish API and UI automation
Test case management - experience using Test Rail, jira, or other standard test case management and execution tools
IDEs and platform specific environments - professional experience working with Android Studio, Xcode, and/or Unity Editor
API Design & Integration: Knowledge of API design, integration and testing best practices (REST, SOAP)
Agile Experience: Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies, reflecting your adaptability in dynamic working environments
Have Shipped successful multiple mobile apps at scale on Google Play or Apple’s app store
SDLC & GitHub Experience: Understanding of the complete software development life cycle, including coding, testing, and deployment, with particular emphasis on the use of GitHub and GitHub Actions
Team collaboration - Experience with development and delivery in a remote and geographically distributed team
Strong communication skills to effectively convey technical summaries and priorities to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent real world experience
Benefits And Beyond
Employees constantly rate Big Fish Games highly for its leadership, flexibility, well-being, diversity and inclusion through quarterly surveys.
FLEX-Forward work environment: Customize the when, where, and how you work while delivering goals
Health Benefits: Health care coverage on your first day of employment with competitive plans and virtual Health care offered
Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) + Wellness spending account (500$)
Time Off: 3 weeks + 4 floating days + 7 personal/sick days
Financial Benefits: 100% match up to 4% on Group RRSPs + SuperShare eligibility where for every 2 Aristocrat Technologies (ATI) shares you buy, up to the set maximum, you will receive 1 for free
Team Member Assistance Fund: Up to $1,000 annually in financial support if you fall on hard times and need financial assistance
Community & Fun: Company social events, employee impact groups, company swag, volunteer opportunities
Access to LinkedIn Learning
+ Many More !
About Big Fish
Building upon our 20-year legacy as a leader in the biggest gaming categories in the world, we are innovating and developing new products within the casual space to add to our extensive portfolio. Big Fish is dedicated to delivering amazing experiences for players to connect, compete and discover play, anywhere and on any device. This means games for broad global audiences in genres that are easy to learn, and difficult to master. Be a part of the team from the start.
Big Fish is part of Pixel United, the free-to-play, mobile-first video games business of Aristocrat Leisure Ltd (ASX: ALL)!
Big Fish Games is an equal opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special that’s why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
Pixel United is the free-to-play, mobile-first video games business of Aristocrat Leisure Ltd (ASX: ALL). Our purpose is to build the best games and drive positive change — for our people, partners, players and global communities. At Pixel United, we help independent games studios and start-ups to scale and top talent to thrive. We have grown to become a top 5 games publisher in tier 1 western markets with three major operating businesses: Product Madness (UK), Plarium Global (Israel), and Big Fish Games (USA). The portfolio spans multiple key game genres — including Strategy/RPG, Casual, Action and Social Casino – and encompasses a growing workforce of 3,000 employees in ~21 locations worldwide. As our global footprint continues to expand, with recent studio additions including Northern Stars (Helsinki, Finland), FuturePlay (Helsinki, Finland) and Playsoft (Gdansk, Poland), so too does our ambition to do better. We will continue to lead this industry forward: through our investments, in our performance, founded on a culture of excellence and guided by our people, partners and players – so that we have a positive impact on our planet. We are steadfast in raising standards and as a world leader in mobile-first games, we have made bold ESG commitments, recognising our responsibilities to our players and our vibrant industry. Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us to live our mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play — every day. Our vision is to be the greatest mobile-first games business in the world — each powerful Pixel, United. Please be alert to scams offering employment opportunities. Any communication to candidates regarding employment opportunities at Aristocrat or its subsidiaries will come from an @aristocrat.com, @bigfishgames.com, @pixelunited.com, or @productmadness.com email address.