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QA Lead

Sumo Digital
Red Kite Games, Leeds
4 years ago
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Specialising in AAA PC and console development, Red Kite has a proven track record in the creation of cutting-edge games across varying genres.

Having set up home in the beautiful Grade-II listed Park Row House in Leeds city centre, Red Kite continues to develop top-quality games for multiple world-class AAA publishing partners such as Sony, Microsoft, Activision, 2K, SEGA, Epic, Warner Bros., 505, Rare, Codemasters, Mediatonic and Remedy.

Several titles include Hogwarts Legacy, Fall Guys, Mafia: Definitive Edition, Mafia III: Definitive Edition, Control Ultimate Edition, Two Point Hospital, Knockout City, Battletoads, Crackdown 3, Payday 2, Team Sonic Racing, DiRT 4 and God of War III: Remastered.

It’s a very exciting time to join Red Kite; not only are we working on multiple high-profile games for gen 9 platforms, we're also developing our own IP. Here’s what we can tell you about:

· We’re helping to develop the much-anticipated Hogwarts Legacy with the teams at Warner Bros. and Avalanche Software

· We’re partnered with Mediatonic working on the smash-hit, Fall Guys

· We’re working on a brand new PvE 1st person shooter based on an award-winning IP

· We’re working on a high-profile AAA 1st person shooter in UE5

One of the most interesting aspects to working at Red Kite is the diversity of projects present within the studio. It's certainly never boring and we constantly find ourselves pushing the boundaries when it comes to the gameplay that we're creating and the technologies that we're engineering.

The Role @ Red Kite

Red Kite are working on a variety of exciting games and has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced QA Lead Tester to strengthen, shape and lead our existing QA team.

In this role you will work in a dev/embedded capacity on a AAA title for a Next Gen Streaming Platform along with future titles.

Working closely with the development team, you will play a key part in the development process by defining testing processes, supporting and mentoring a small team of testers and helping the overall team achieve their target quality in design and implementation.

Your knowledge and expertise will be invaluable in supporting projects across a multitude of platforms and genres.

In your new role you will:

· Plan QA deliverables and ensure coverage for all testing requests from all areas of development

· Define the testing processes to ensure fast and accurate qualitative and functional testing

· Provide personal support, mentoring, and professional development for testers

· Assist the recruitment team to recruit additional QA testers

· Review capacity of the team relating to the scope of the project

· Sign off on releases for production milestones

· Be a point of contact for all QA-related communication

· Be an advocate of QA throughout the studio

· Liaise with external testing teams at our publishing partners

To be successful you will have:

· 4+ years’ experience within games dev/embedded testing, at least 2 of which in a senior or lead capacity

· Experience in shipping 2+ games on consoles, at least one of which in a lead or senior capacity

· A passion for games and their development

Experience in any of these areas will be advantageous but not essential:

· An understanding of JIRA or similar bug tracking and project management software

· Experience using UE4 and/or Unity editor

· Experience using Perforce VCS

· Experience using Agile development methodologies

Red Kite is located in central Leeds, a major European city connected to London by rapid rail links and the M1 motorway – plus the rest of the world via Leeds Bradford airport. It's home to some of the best restaurants, bars and museums in the North of England, and is within easy reach of spectacular countryside (the Yorkshire Moors and Bronte Country), historical York and the Yorkshire East coast (you should definitely check out Whitby and Runswick Bay).

We offer a superb flexible benefits package – which includes but is not limited to:

· Flexitime – Including work from home on Fridays

· 35 hour working week

· Early finish Fridays

· Annual Bonus

· 27 Days Holiday (Minimum) – Including your birthday, Duvet Days and Christmas Eve

· 5 Learning & Development Days per year – Including Udemy Access

· Employee Assistance Programme – Including health, mental health and wellbeing support

· Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption pay

· Life Assurance, Income Protection and Critical Illness

· Relocation Support & Visa Sponsorship

Nurturing Red Kite's studio culture is at the heart of everything we do and has been proudly recognised by the following awards:

· GI.biz – Best Places to Work 2022

· Best Companies – A World Class, 3 Star place to work for 2022

· TIGA STAR Award for excellence

Red Kite is a social studio – the team regularly gather for drinks, game nights, film nights, to play sports etc. – making this a great place to build a career whilst making friends...and let's not forget Red Kite's legendary Summer BBQ and our epic Christmas party – plus much more!

Red Kite's studio is relaxed and friendly. Every team member has the opportunity to shine and we pride ourselves on providing a positive social atmosphere, facilitated by shared interest groups, afterwork clubs and charity fundraising events. Red Kite are proud supporters of the gaming charity SpecialEffect.

Come join the team, build a rewarding career, and help to make great games with a lovely bunch of people!

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