Senior Game Tester

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Testing

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Game Tester at Funcom, your primary responsibility will be to ensure the quality and performance of our games. You will conduct thorough testing of game features, content, and functionality to identify and report potential issues, contributing to an exceptional gaming experience for players. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the development process by reporting bugs, collaborating with developers to resolve problems, and offering valuable feedback to enhance gameplay. This role involves creating and executing test cases, working closely with project managers and testers, and ensuring the quality of testing deliverables. You'll also be expected to maintain a deep understanding of game systems and provide peer support, all while maintaining a proactive and meticulous approach.
Must have:
  • Passion for video games
  • Advanced knowledge of QA processes
  • 3+ years of experience in QA roles
  • Provide constructive and qualitative game feedback
  • Experience with test case management and defect tracking tools
  • Experience with the test cycle of a commercial game project
  • Ability to provide peer support and onboard new team members
  • Professional attitude, proactive, meticulous, and curious
  • Strong analytical skills for problem detection and troubleshooting
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Good to have:
  • QA experience on current-gen consoles
  • Advanced knowledge of SDLC
  • Experience with playing Survival games and RPGs
Perks:
  • Scandinavian work values and a relaxed work environment
  • A fully customizable benefits package
  • Well-being initiatives
  • Fun company events

Job Details

We like to think of ourselves as more than just developers. We're a friendly group of around 500 people with plenty of casual and hardcore gamers, tech heads and creative masterminds, organized planners, and nerdy game fans who make this industry so fun. And we’re all together on a mission to open windows to amazing worlds. We've been making games for over 30 years, crafting and publishing unique experiences that have put us on the path to becoming a leader in Online Worlds.

We've got five studios spread across Norway, the USA, Portugal, Sweden, and Romania, and we're always on the lookout for more dedicated people to join our ranks.

We're all about creating a relaxed and equal workspace where flat communication and our agile structure are key to delivering world-class games.

So, if you're ready to make your mark, we're ready to welcome you!


Your Mission in Funcom

As a Senior Game Tester, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality and performance of our games. You will be responsible for thoroughly testing game features, content, and functionality to identify potential issues and ensure an exceptional gaming experience for our players.

Your expertise will help shape the development process by reporting bugs, collaborating with developers to reproduce and resolve problems, and providing actionable feedback to improve gameplay.

How you can have an impact in your position:
  • Own a project area and ensure that all the checks are properly executed.
  • Create and execute test cases based on design documents.
  • Work closely with the Project Managers and Game Testers to deliver the tasks on time and with the expected quality.
  • Help maintain the good functionality of the game systems by developing an intimate understanding of them and their associated requirements.
  • Perform testing accurately and thoroughly, within a specified time frame to detect bugs, software flaws, and/or design issues.
  • Report the test results, provide regular updates, and escalate concerns to relevant stakeholders.
  • Ensure the quality of testing deliverables.
We are looking for you to have:  
  • Passion for video games
  • Advanced knowledge of QA processes
  • 3+ years of experience in QA roles
  • Ability to provide constructive and qualitative feedback for the game
  • Experience with test case management and defect tracking tools (e.g., TestRail, Xray, JIRA, Confluence)
  • Experience with the test cycle of a commercial game project, from alpha to beta, launch, and ongoing maintenance
  • Ability to provide peer support and onboard new team members effectively
  • Professional attitude with a proven track record of being proactive, self-driven, meticulous, and curious
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to detect and troubleshoot problems
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
In addition, ideally, you might also have:
  • QA experience on current-gen consoles
  • Advanced knowledge of SDLC
  • Experience with playing Survival games and RPGs (Conan Exiles, ARK, Rust, 7Days etc.)

We evaluate candidates on an ongoing basis and recommend candidates to apply as soon as possible! 

Please apply in English


Why Funcom?

We’re a Scandinavian company and follow Scandinavian work values. That means we're all about creating a relaxed, equal workspace where you can be yourself and make a difference in what we do. More so, we're big believers in work-life balance. 

Over 80 people work and play in our Bucharest Studio, a professional working environment with an international work culture, currently focusing on Quality Assurance, with plans in place to expand to other areas of game development over time. 

Our office is located at the very heart of the city, at Piata Victoriei – the starting point for the best sightseeing tours of the city, near the metro station and close to some of the best restaurants in Bucharest.

Working at Funcom Bucharest offers a relaxed workplace, a fully customizable benefits package, and well-being initiatives. What’s more, we know how to have fun and, at the same time, aim high in what we do. We're pros at throwing BBQ parties or planning events, usually hosted at amazing locations.  

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About The Company

Funcom was founded 32 years ago, in 1993. We were there in the early days of the massively multiplayer online games, breaking new ground and pioneering features and business models that are commonplace today. We’ve made over 25 games, from pixel platformers to more recent titles such as The Longest Journey, Conan Exiles, and Secret World Legends. With Dune: Awakening, we are weaving together Open World Survival and MMO elements into a Dune tapestry that brings Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece to life in a completely unique way. Today, over 500 people from more than 40 different nationalities work and play at Funcom across our 5 studios in Oslo, Norway; Lisbon, Portugal; Durham, North Carolina; Stockholm, Sweden; and Bucharest, Romania.

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