QA Specialist - Functionality

1 Day ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The QA Specialist will be responsible for contributing to the overall test strategy, analyzing game scope and features, and creating test plans with value-based test cases. They will partner with game teams and external QA to ensure complete testing coverage, report defects accurately, and provide qualitative analysis of game state. This role involves mentoring QA partners, providing feedback, and making recommendations to improve game quality. The ideal candidate should have experience in QA within the games industry, particularly with AAA HD titles, and possess strong English communication skills. They will collaborate with development teams to understand feature design intentions and translate them into test strategies. The candidate should also have experience in partnering with external QA teams.
Must have:
  • Experience in QA within the Games industry.
  • Experience testing across PC and consoles.
  • Knowledge of QA test practices for the full development life cycle.
  • Excellent English written and verbal skills.
Good to have:
  • Experience in communicating with development teams.
  • Experience in partnering with external QA teams.

Job Details

DESCRIPTION

Welcome to Amazon Games Bucharest! Joining the ranks of the existing development teams in Orange County, Montreal, San Diego and Seattle, we’re excited to expand Amazon Games’ commitment to creating and publishing incredible games, and we’re on the lookout for talented folks to join us as we grow.

We are looking for a seasoned quality assurance specialist, who is an expert in their field of manual testing, with a deep passion for games and quality. In this role, you will collaborate both with development teams and external QA, and contribute to the gameplay debug & polish effort across all Amazon games.


Key job responsibilities
- Contribute to overall test strategy, analyze game scope and features, drive and deliver test plans creation with value based test cases on assigned areas
- Partner with game teams, developers and project QA, and sync on design intent and quality expectations for owned features and assigned areas
- Ensure complete testing coverage, reporting all quality defects on assigned game areas with high accuracy and efficiency
- Contribute to qualitative analysis on game state based on tests results and defects identified over time
- Contribute to internal status reports, highlight defect patterns and provide test priorities or test case recommendations to QA partners
- Coordinate and mentor QA partners on efficient debugging and test coverage, defect impact analysis and root cause analysis for found defects
- Offer qualitative feedback & recommendations that can improve the game quality, from a player perspective


About the team
At Amazon Games, our ambition is to create bold new experiences that foster community in and around our games. Our team of game industry veterans is developing and publishing live service AAA multiplayer games and developing original IPs, including New World: Aeternum and an upcoming title based on The Lord of the Rings, with our studios and teams in Seattle, Orange County, San Diego, Montreal, and Bucharest. Amazon Games also publishes best-in-class games in close collaboration with developers, leading with Lost Ark from Smilegate RPG, THRONE AND LIBERTY from NCSOFT, and King of Meat from Glowmade, as well as the next major entry in the Tomb Raider series from Crystal Dynamics.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in QA, in the Games industry, with evidenced Triple A HD titles testing.
- Experience testing across a variety of platforms (PC and consoles)
- Knowledge of QA test practices for the full development life cycle, including test plans & test cases creation, defect reporting standards, defect life cycle and defect analysis against client and market expectations
- Excellent English written and verbal skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in communicating with development teams across all job functions to collect feature design intentions and quality expectations and translate that into test strategy and test plans
- Experience in partnering with external QA teams on test strategy expectations and game coverage recommendations

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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