QA Engineer III - 2XKO

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

As a QA Engineer III at Riot Games, you'll be a lead within a larger area, guiding and mentoring other QA team members without direct management responsibilities. Your focus will be on creating and managing comprehensive test plans for Riot's competitive fighting game, 2XKO. This involves establishing test strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing external vendors, analyzing test data, and reporting on product quality. Responsibilities include improving testing efficiency, identifying and escalating risks, and ensuring the team meets quality standards. You'll need extensive QA experience, including leading others, and a passion for fighting games is a plus.
Must have:
  • 6+ years QA experience leading team members
  • Test plan design & execution
  • Defect database management
  • Remote tester management & feedback
  • Custom reporting on test coverage & defects
  • Creative problem-solving for process improvement
Good to have:
  • Fighting game passion & FGC experience
  • Unreal Engine experience
  • Console/PC development experience
  • ISTQB certifications (Foundation, Agile Tester, Expert, Advanced Test Manager)
Perks:
  • Open paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

At Riot, we believe Quality is a set of values, practices, and behaviors that inform every part of the development process. By honing our craft of quality and demonstrating cross-discipline partnerships we help Riot sustainably craft excellent experiences for players, globally.

2XKO is Riot's League-IP take on a competitive fighting game. As a QA Engineer III you will work with other developers on your team to ensure outcomes reach quality goals. Guided by Riot’s Test Policies and the product’s test strategy, you will ensure the execution of quality activities at every stage of the software development lifecycle. You will work with other Quality Leads to arrive at more efficient solutions to everyday problems, while improving delivery and the overall quality of the product. You will report into a QA Manager.

This role will be the lead of an area that has multiple teams underneath it. In this sense this role will lead, but not manage Quality Engineers on the teams within the area.

Responsibilities:

  • Create, manage, and operate the overall area test plan.
  • Manage and evaluate testing efficiency and effectiveness within your area.
  • Establish test strategies and processes to apply to your area’s operations, often driving them through other QA team members
  • Improve on methods of test execution at the area level.
  • Collaborate with different disciplines in order to understand their goals and incorporate them into decisions that improve quality.
  • Guide and monitor all testing done for the area.
  • Provide tasking to and collaborate with external testing vendors.
  • Work the QA members of your team to ensure risks are identified, analyzed, and escalated
  • Analyze and report on the product’s quality status to the area’s leadership team.
  • Hold the team accountable to meeting quality standards

Required Qualifications: 

  • 6+ years of professional embedded Quality Assurance experience, including leading other QA team members
  • Experience designing and executing test plans
  • Experience managing components of a defect database
  • Experience tasking remote testers and providing feedback on effectiveness
  • Experience working on a product development team
  • Experience creating custom reports on test coverage, defect data, and risk
  • Experience using creative problem solving to improve processes

Desired Qualifications:

  • Passion for Fighting Games and the FGC
  • Experience working with Unreal Engine tools
  • Development experience with Console and PC
  • ISTQB Foundation Level 
  • ISTQB Agile Tester or ICAgile Agile Testing (ICP-TST) 
  • ISTQB Expert Level 
  • ISTQB Advanced Test Manager
  • ICAgile Test Expert (ICE-AT)

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the and . Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of and our ongoing work to build the .

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

  • Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
  • Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
  • Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
  • Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

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