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Senior QA Analyst

We are assembling a dream team of exceptional developers with a shared vision for a powerful new game built around the pillars of hope, humor, and human empowerment. We aim to create an industry phenomenon by leveraging our team's proven track record for building narrative-driven sandbox games that create strong emotional engagement through empathy, positivity, and community participation on a global scale. Reaching that potential requires building a singular studio of unique personalities and experiences to create a one-of-a-kind work culture. We love quirks, we embrace oddities, and we trust that our world is extraordinary when it's a little off-beat and a lot unusual. We know the people we are looking for rarely exist in the same place, which is why we are a fully distributed team allowing everyone to work from their home base of choice.

Crop Circle Games is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to help establish our early development quality framework. If you enjoy the feeling of being an early member of a technical team working closely with talented peers to lay the online foundation of an exciting new IP, this might be an ideal job for you.

Reporting to the QA Manager, this role collaborates with disciplines across the entire project through all stages of development. You will work closely with our game design and engineering teams to help deliver the project to quality.

Core Responsibilities & Objectives

• Develop a Quality Plan for a set of features or components over multiple development phases, including Validation and Verification testing, Automation opportunities, Performance benchmarks, Exploratory testing, etc.
• Provide qualitative feedback on features and develop processes to gather similar feedback from test teams.
• Plan for and execute day-to-day testing for the product, including designing and maintaining a comprehensive, evolving set of tests to maintain stability in your product area at all phases of development.
• Identify and escalate risks, while suggesting mitigation strategies to address those concerns.
• Collaborate with other embedded QA analysts on the product to establish QA best practices and processes through iteration, knowledge sharing, and peer review.
• Mentor junior QA professionals in multiple different testing types and methodologies.

Core Traits (Skills, Knowledge, Experience)

• At least four years of experience in Dev QA, working embedded with feature teams as a QA Analyst, Development Tester, or equivalent.
• Proven experience in generating actionable qualitative feedback around game features during all phases of development.
• Experienced in writing, executing, and maintaining test cases and test suites.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with different types of testing, and the ability to prioritize what testing activities will generate the most useful data/results for product goals.
• Strong understanding of different metrics and KPIs in their area of ownership, and can use telemetry, test results, and other data points to provide real-time insights and analysis of risk on the product area.
• Able to work with different disciplines and personality types to drive change in products/process.

Bonus Traits

• Experience with working in Unreal Engine.
• Experience with automated testing, reading/writing code, or visual scripting.
• ISTQB certification.

Physical Requirements

• Close vision to monitors and screens, consistently working on computer equipment such as keyboards, game controllers, and monitors, long periods of sitting.