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Senior Software Developer in Test - Metaverse

Our metaverse group helps our partners realise their metaverse ambitions. The team’s expertise encompasses creative (concept and design), production (art and content), engineering (game development and Web3) and operations (dev and live).

At Improbable, you’ll collaborate with some of the best in the industry. Together, you’ll create unique, tailored experiences that stretch the boundaries of what’s possible in digital spaces and virtual worlds – and help define what the metaverse can be.

As a Quality Assurance Engineer embedded in a feature development team you will lead the quality strategy, implement any testing requirements based on the feature/system in develop, acting as the team’s testing expert and mentor. Your relentlessly high standards will enable teams to test, release and operate their products quickly, reliably, repeatedly, safely.

You will put in place feedback loops to keep your team informed of the quality of their products throughout the SDLC and work closely with customers to understand their requirements and implement solutions.

Your Opportunity:

• With your passion for quality, you will act to measure, improve, and maintain product quality and reliability.
• Able to implement any automated tests, establish workflow/pipelines, refinement of existing code/process/systems to improve the quality of the product or process.
• Helping to grow a best in class Quality organisation, developing and mentoring the talent that we hire.
• Educate teams on the software development best practices via consultancy, communities of practice and bottom up grassroots practices.
• Mentoring developers and more junior testers in building testing and integration practices.
• You’ll utilise your strong communications skills to influence best practice across multiple teams Playing a significant role in helping teams develop solutions to create a more robust automated testing environment.
• Bringing cloud environment experience, you’ll champion quality and testing best practice at scale.
• Working closely with our customers to help foster a culture of customer empathy within teams when developing solutions.
• Analyse and define quality metrics for teams and identify trends to suggest potential fixes in order to improve quality and reduce future defects.

Why You're Made For This:

• Background in developing new processes in order to improve product quality
• Experience in game development process
• Experience with creating reports and tracking the health of projects over time
• Experience working across multiple teams
• Experience writing automated tests
• Experience building documentation and guidance for your teammates
• Bias towards automated testing, but recognise and act when manual testing is required
• You understand that quality means more than just testing
• Reviewing design proposals, acceptance criteria and processes, and recommend improvement
• A passion for fostering a culture of quality in your team
• Experienced with networking services (i.e. Kubernetes, Google GCP or Amazon AWS)
• Experience creating test plans and strategies to highlight resourcing requirements, product risks and contingency plans
• Experience in programming or scripting languages such as Go or Typescript
• Experience in using any game engine testing tools or familiar in developing testing levels as a testing mechanism

While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!