Quality Engineer

Niantic’s Quality Engineering (QE) team is seeking a Quality Engineer who will be responsible for QE feature testing efforts for Pokémon Go. As a Quality Engineer, you will work closely with our other QE team members, our QE Director, and our production team to ensure that we are delivering high-quality experiences to our players. You will be responsible for planning, creating, implementing, and executing testing for core areas of our games.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage testing estimates, schedules, timelines, bug analytics/metrics, and mitigation plans.
• Manage Pokémon GO feature testing and integration across Niantic’s technologies and platform.
• Collaborate with our TPMs to interface with external QE resources and with the development team to track defects during feature development.
• Drive the development and execution of test cases and suites for new features.
• Report project testing efforts to our project leads and production team.
• Work with the QE leadership team on QE process improvements.
• Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Qualifications

• You have a BS in Computer Science or another technical major and/or a minimum of 3 years of software QE experience.
• Proven understanding of QE methodology and tools.
• Experience leading, building, and crafting test strategies for game and consumer-facing products.
• Ability to work both individually and collaboratively as part of a team.

Plus If...

• One or more years of mobile testing/QA experience.
• Passion for mobile devices and mobile gaming.
• Experience writing test automation/scripts.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

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