Software Quality Assurance Engineer

EA SPORTS FC

Building on an incredible 30 year foundation, we're redefining football with EA SPORTS FC - a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game. Together, we're taking the largest football club in the world to new heights – and this is just the beginning!

With more opportunity than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to fans everywhere, we invite you to join us as we pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS FC, and welcome everyone to the club!

Role Overview:

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will report to the QA Site Leader and you will drive qualities with in-depth understanding of software design and implementation. You will identify quality issues and bugs as early as possible in the development cycle. You will become the voice of quality for the project. Also, we require test strategies and experience which challenge the software to provide a very high level of quality.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with the development team to create a high-quality game plan, expediting 'Bug Flow' through efficient analysis and communication with internal and external partners.
• Provide detailed defect insights to various teams and use data analysis to give constructive feedback on in-game features.
• Leverage opportunities for early design feedback from QA, execute diverse testing types across multiple features, and evaluate potential feature and system risks.
• Use data analysis to formulate potential experiment theories, propose actionable recommendations, and advocate for best practices or immediate changes with partners.
• Adapt testing efforts to shifting project priorities, monitor testing activities, and uphold quality standards in strategies.
• Contribute to project documentation and actively participate in discussions with partners and peers to stay updated on project status and priorities

What you will need to be successful :

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, including test planning, implementation, and execution.
• In-depth knowledge of software/game development, including both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Experience tracing and analyzing logs to uncover details related to software failures or bugs.
• Experience in identifying potential risks and effectively escalating these concerns to the appropriate stakeholders to resolution
• Experience with defect and test case management tool (e.g JIRA, Test Rail).
• Experience working within a continuous delivery or continuous deployment model.
• Experience with any form of scripted test automation will be highly advantageous.
• Fluent proficiency in English