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Quality Designer II (Test Automation) - Respawn

Founded in 2010 by the original creators of the Call of Duty Franchise, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when experienced people have creative freedom, they'll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. We love what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide. Our shipped titles include critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. Join us for the opportunity to create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talent in the industry.

Respawn is looking for a Test Automation Engineer with a focus in the technical space to join an established, experienced team working on Apex Legends. You will work with the Foundations (systems), Rendering, and automation teams to ensure the quality of feature releases, the use of automation/tools, and identify project risks.

You will promote software & game quality by maturing end-to-end strategies that ensure comprehensive and impactful test design, bringing together approaches to verification across functional, experiential, and technical elements of quality. You are focused on technical areas of software use technology to multiply effort and expand use of test automation. You may also have varying competence of Machine Learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled autotests. You will report to the Development Manager.

Responsibilities:

You will:

• Design and evolve test strategies by looking into historical data, working with test experts, and communicating with developers.
• Plan test execution by working with Feature Group managers and testing teams.
• Work with Feature Group managers to establish milestone acceptance criteria and hold partners accountable.
• Analyze existing test automation and tools to identify automation opportunities for the Foundations and Rendering team.
• Collaborate with our automation team on their tools and platform to partner and understand our team’s automation needs.
• Work with our Development team and technical directors to understand the code risk to fixes or new feature implementation and translate that code risk into test coverage or automation opportunities.
• Help evolve the team’s processes with a focus on peer mentoring to expand the team’s capabilities and responsibilities.
• Collect data and feedback from test results and use that data to inform meaningful conclusions and driving recommendations and change.

Qualifications:

• 3 to 5 years of experience in quality assurance or applicable experience in technology fields
• In-depth knowledge of software/game development, including both Agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Computer Science (CS) degree or equivalent.
• Experience driving and contributing to discussions with senior discipline leaders.
• Experience with Back-end development or back-end development QA.
• Experience with test automation tools.
• Experience working with medium-to-large-scale teams and distributed peers.
• Experience with bug prevention and containment strategies.
• Defect and Task tracking tool experience (JIRA, JAAS, Github).