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Lead QA Engineer - Roblox Studio
1 year ago
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As a Lead QA Engineer for the Roblox Studio Foundation, you will work in a cross-discipline team that is in charge of evolving Roblox Studio to a world-class IDE. Roblox Studio facilitates instant synchronization between game developers, enables multi-party script editing, and manages a cloud-based repository that serves a global audience. You will make sure the components and features we build satisfy product specifications and don't compromise system stability or scalability. We are looking for someone to coordinate testing with third-party testers, partner with other Roblox QA, create automation, and work with developers and designers to ensure quality for our users.
You are:
- Reporting into the Engineering Manager
- 1+ years coordinating third-party test teams, 2+ years in test automation, 3+ years as a QA Lead, and 5+ years in Quality Assurance testing, and train new testers
- Expert in your domain, able to apply industry best practices, familiar with common issues encountered in consoles, Mac, and Windows, have experience of QA tools (bug tracking software, test case management software, proxy tools, performance measurement tools, build distribution tools), and have created and run automated tests.
- Demonstrate problem-solving skills to guide bug investigation and able to develop comprehensive test plans for major feature releases and ongoing regression suites
- Strategic, demonstrating a sense of process to improve tester efficiency and facilitate between local and offshore teams, and an understanding of the impact of issues and time constraints on engineering and other teams. identify test cases to automate and propose automation framework, tooling and other efficiency improvements
- Deliver high-profile results on a strict deadline
- Collaborative and able to coordinate with outsourced testers and local cross-discipline team members
- Delivering high-quality software promptly
You will:
- Manage outsourced testing for game and application software alongside a passionate engineering team, building our client applications on smartphones, tablets, desktops, and game consoles..
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering team members to create test strategies, create test plans, and ensure that product requirements and testing instructions are communicated to outsourced testing teams.
- Author testing regressions to ensure full test coverage of features and their integrated use in the product and work with engineers to create automated tests when applicable.
- Prioritize and assign tasks to outsourced testers, training them and providing feedback to ensure testing is completed correctly.
- Review and interpret test reports and results from outsourced testing groups.
- Ensure defect reports are complete, reproducing issues locally, assessment, and following up on issue resolution and fix verification.
- Work quickly and adjust to the changing demands of our Agile development process.
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.