Position: Senior QA Analyst
Status: Full-time / Permanent
Location: Montreal, QC
About Us
Compulsion Games is a first-party game studio and subsidiary of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, located in Montreal, Canada.
We are a boutique team of industry veterans, who trust and respect each other and love our craft. Our games have won praise for their art, music, world-building and narrative. We are now working on our next project!
We like to take on troublesome themes. We try to make characters with compelling, human flaws. We mix darkness and comedy.
Job Description
The Senior QA Analyst brings a wealth of quality assurance experience to the studio. The incumbent will work directly with the development teams, ensuring our games are polished and engaging.
Responsibilities
- Integrate directly with the development teams and help them to create quality content
- Clearly document issues and ensure they can be reproduced effectively
- Create, maintain and execute test cases for assigned areas
- Provide constructive feedback on systems, features and the overall holistic quality of our games
- Act as a subject matter expert for areas of ownership and proactively find new ways to drive quality forward
- Assist other members of the quality assurance team
- Work and share with other industry veterans who are passionate about their craft
- Create and follow-up on test suites executed by QC teams
- Be aware of issues history and overall quality issues for you assigned areas
- Come up with recommendations, based on issues, to help improve the development process
Qualifications
- 4+ years experience in game or software quality assurance
- An excellent understanding of database and bug-tracking software (Azure DevOps, JIRA, etc.)
- Experience designing and managing re-usable test cases and test suites
- Experience with coordinating test runs
- The ability to work autonomously, prioritize tasks and take ownership of assigned areas
- A passion for video games and interactive story-telling
- Passion for Game Quality Assurance and Testing (testing methods, testing types, etc)
- An innate desire to understand how things work and a willingness to learn
- Looking to join a top-level, creative and independent team
- If that all sounds like you, then we would love for you to come and work with us.
If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!