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Associate Audio QA Analyst

What We Do

Epic Games is looking to expand its internal Quality Assurance team. We are looking for serious QA professionals with wide ranging skills and experience who want to work embedded on a development team. This position owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of a given feature, function or set of work, where you will be part of a rapidly iterating development team working closely with developers and production. If you're excited about working in a fast-paced environment and are highly motivated to ensure the best possible user experience, then we'd like to speak with you!

What You'll Do

In this role you will work closely with developers, product owners, and QA analysts on the audio team to collect and meet necessary quality criteria. The audio team is responsible for everything you hear in the game including weapons, environmental ambience, events, music, cosmetics, and every gameplay feature’s audio. The role will cover testing of the game’s audio in-game on various platforms, as well as testing audio assets in the engine. This role also will focus on cross-team collaboration, working with various internal and external testing teams as needed, performance testing on supported platforms, qualitative testing and validation testing in-game and in the engine.

To be set up for success, the person in this role should have experience with end-to-end feature ownership and risk assessment while being flexible in a fast-paced environment. Moreover, the person should be well-versed in audio terminology, have an ear for quality sound design, and game mixes, and have knowledge of fundamental audio concepts such as sample rate, reverb, channel counts, and more.

In This Role You Will

• Work with product owners, developers and QA management to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming map features.
• Build test approaches and test plans in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Conduct functional and qualitative testing on audio assets in game, and in engine across a wide range of features in a fast paced environment.
• Perform performance testing on features when required for audio features on supported platforms.
• Plan and conduct defect exploration and verification of audio-integrated features.
• Use knowledge of audio to give feedback, and flag issues with features that may not have been initially considered.
• Analyze and troubleshoot reported defects and internal issues within the product and escalate quality issues.
• Proactively manage incoming defects and work autonomously on highest value tasks, be it test writing or test execution.

What We're Looking For

• 2+ YOE in testing
• 6+ months in Quality Assurance
• Exposure to software development life cycle and how QA fits in that cycle
• Experience with game audio in a testing environment
• Experience in functional and usability testing
• Ability to prioritize and work independently, as well as in a team environment
• Ability to thrive while working in a fast-paced working environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Have Skills

• Sound design, or musical skills are a plus
• Knowledge of audio engines, and middleware are a plus
• Experience with multiple platforms and cross-platform testing
• Unreal Engine 4 experience
• JIRA or other Bug database experience
• Experience identifying gaps in test coverage and root cause analysis