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QA Tester
4 years ago
As Quality Assurance Tester, you are part of the QA Process and Team. You work closely with several agile development teams. You support them with providing insights and feedback on the output of sprints and milestone deliveries. Your QA activities helps the development teams to correct issues while they’re hot. You continuously help them to achieve rock-solid stability, functionality, performance, consistency and overall integrity in our games. Your QA process fits in an agile framework, and is a true time, cost and headache saver for the development teams.
OUTCOMES
- Use investigative skills to find problems, assisting programmers and artists with reproducing and validating bugs
- Ensure that all bugs are recorded in an efficient and informative manner
- Verify the implementation of features and fixes for existing issues (regression)
- Working together with Producers and Game Directors on prioritization of issues
- Collaboration with development teams on integration of QA in the development process
- Assisting the Producer with submissions
ROLE BASED COMPETENCIES
- Knowledge of testing methodologies (user tests, regression tests, usability tests, etc.)
- Interest for game development and the unique challenges it brings
- Experience with testing tools and defect management
- Highly structured and an analytical mindset
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Clarify and escalate relevant issues where you feel the severity is misunderstood
- Able to give qualitative feedback on the titles beyond bug reporting
QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ years of experience within a game development studio or game development environment
- 40+ hours a week availability at our studio in The Hague.
Nice to haves
- Experience with Unity, Git
- Experience with additional tools besides JIRA
- Experience with test automation
CULTURAL COMPETENCIES
Paladin has six core values that we’re looking for in team members:
- Synergy: We combine our individual strengths to achieve our goals.
- Kaizen: We make positive changes on a regular basis.
- Spark: We leave a mark, providing a positive experience for everyone involved.
- Wholehearted: We love the work we do, and we commit to our work.
- Adventure: We go off the beaten tracks.
- Autonomy: We make decisions and take responsibility for our actions.
WE OFFER
- Diverse and challenging projects
- A place in a highly motivated and skilled team and an ambitious company
- Positive, healthy work environment
- Coaching and plenty of opportunities for personal development
- A high degree of freedom and responsibility
- Competitive salary and benefits
In our weekly "round table meetings", all aspects of the company are discussed. We believe in transparency and autonomy, and this creates a high degree of freedom and responsibility. (Note that this is not for everyone, so please only apply if this concept appeals to your inner pirate!).
For more information, see paladinstudios.com and paladinstudios.com/blog.
ABOUT PALADIN STUDIOS
We create games that make people smile – be it a sweet twinkle, loud laugh, or evil grin.
Paladin is a game developer based in The Hague, The Netherlands. We are a team of 55+ knights, and have been growing fast for the past few years. Our mission is to create games with a spark, for players all over the world. We achieve this goal by being a world-class game studio with soul, that brings out the best in people. That means a studio filled to the brim with creativity, professionalism, and good vibes.
Some of our recent games include:
We are currently working on our next generation of games, focusing on console, PC and mobile platforms.
HOW TO APPLY
Does this sound good? Awesome! To apply, please fill in the application form and we'll get back to you ASAP. We look forward to hearing from you!
-Team Paladin
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