Quality Engineer 2 - Xbox Games Studios

Requirements

• Experience shipping games preferably in a leading role.
• Excellent test aptitude with the ability to evaluate quality across a wide variety of features using a multifaceted approach.
• Proficiency and experience using scripts, tools, and/or automation to optimize testing, evaluation, and reporting.
• Ability to prioritize and organize in a practical, reliable, and efficient way and to bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
• Familiarity with visualizing and presenting datasets to generate clear answers to questions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• History of striving for improved efficiency through people, process, and technology.

Nice to haves

• Experience with querying structured data sources such as a game telemetry database, using the results to optimize your test approach, understand game health, and identify defects.
• Experience with working with teams based across multiple locations.
• Experience of multi-platform releases.

What You'll Be Doing

• Partner with your studio to understand the game they're building along with their development approach.
• Own the quality strategy for broad and/or complex feature sets on your project using a balanced approach of utilizing manual test teams, automation, and data insights.
• Assist the project's Quality Lead, taking on some lead-level responsibilities as needed (e.g., backup for when the lead is out/in meetings, assisting with complex investigations, coordination of project-wide testing and reporting, etc.).
• Communicate status for your features that provides actionable data to the team and project leadership, customizing reports to meet the unique needs of each audience.
• Proactively seek out opportunities to utilize technology and data to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and confidence around your quality approach, recognizing when to leverage existing solutions and when to invest in new ones.
• Proactively seek solutions and lessons learned on other projects and share innovations and lessons learned from your project.
• Anticipate team needs 3-6 months into the future and coordinate team planning accordingly.

Perks and Benefits

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