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Senior Development Tester [Beyond Good And Evil 2] (f/m/d)

Job Description

Beyond Good And Evil 2 is an action-adventure sci-fi RPG set in the same universe as Ubisoft’s original cult classic. You can now join our crew at Ubisoft Mainz to help us shape this amazing project.

As a Senior Development Testeron our team, your extensive experience is essential to ensuring high quality and stability of our game’s features and content.

With your proactive attitude, you work closely with the team lead to mentor other testers and to ensure that upcoming game versions meet all quality standards. You believe in working efficiently and testing thoroughly to achieve the best of quality. In close cooperation with your colleagues in programming, art and design, you make sure that software errors or game design problems can be corrected now, prevented later, and never reach our players.

What you will do:

• Perform daily tests and take responsibility for quality and stability of new game content, new features and upcoming releases
• Isolate and reproduce the bugs to assess gravity and probability based on Ubisoft’s standards, and suggest solutions
• Work alongside programmers, artists and designers to perform quality tests
• Report and monitor software errors (bugs) and game design problems in a bug database
• Verify fixes applied by developers (bug regression)
• Validate high risk changes before they are integrated into the main version in order to ensure stability and basic functionality
• Deliver feedback and reports to the development team, on a regular basis as well as on-demand
• Closely monitor validation sequences
• Work alongside the team lead in order to facilitate delivery of versions in accordance to their requirements
• Act as a direction-providing mentor for other testers

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Experience on a similar position for at least 3 years
• Excellent knowledge of English both spoken and written
• A strong understanding of development processes and the needs of different departments throughout a development cycle
• Good communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Adapt easily to platform and workload variations
• Expertise in writing test-cases and setting up test procedures
• Open to changes and self-improvement
• Proactive and independent working manner
• Knowledge of gaming platforms (Xbox One, PS4, PC, etc)
• Experience with MS Office, Confluence, Sharepoint
• Proficiency in defect & test case management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail)
• Strong understanding of game design
  
  * Experience in multi-platform game development is a plus
  * Experience in AAA game development is a plus

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us

Additional Information

Your benefits:

• Relocation Support: We offer financial support in form of a cash allowance and assistance with accommodation search and settle-in support via our relocation partner, for international candidates we offer visa assistance.
• 26 days paid vacation per year. Additionally, you will get half a day off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve and approximately 11 bank holidays in the Mainz region.
• Flexible Working Hours: We have core working times between 10:00 AM – 04:00 PM and the distribution of the other hours is up to you.
• Opportunities for growth on your desired career path: Leadership training, workshops, guest speakers from the industry, online Ubisoft learning platform, coaches, Experts and library.
• Company Pension Scheme. We offer an attractive scheme through salary sacrificing in which the employer also matches contributions
• Up to 350€ childcare support per child per month. In addition, we also offer 5 ‘care for ill children days’ per child per year.
• Discounted Games. We regularly order Ubisoft Games for super cheap prices for our employees.
• Gym Subsidy. We contribute 50% (up to a maximum amount of 25€) towards the monthly cost of a gym membership of your choice.
• Monthly Mobility Budget. 80€ per month that can be used on bicycle lease, parking spot rental or public transportation ticket.
• Our Ubisoft Blue Byte Academy offers multiple opportunities for you to discover your full potential and develop yourself in various areas.
• English and German classes for free. Main language in the studio is English.
• Free fresh Fruit, Coffee, Tea and Water. Enjoy fresh fruit and beverages in our office.

We offer a highly motivating challenge for team players interested in showing personal initiative in an innovative and international company. If you are passionate about video games and would like to join an industry leader - please apply via our career portal.

For further information, please check https://mainz.ubisoft.com/en/

Company Description

About Ubisoft Mainz

The teams at Ubisoft Mainz are engineering some of Ubisoft’s biggest blockbusters. Operating from a historic city in the heart of Germany, the studio develops games pushing the limits of the genre like the acclaimed Anno 1800 and lends decades of expertise to AAA co-development projects like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and the upcoming Beyond Good And Evil 2. More information at mainz.ubisoft.com.