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Senior QA Analyst
1 year ago
We create ambitious games in a quietly awesome culture.
That simple statement is at the heart of what we do here at Possibility Space. Founded by a diverse and experienced team of game and media industry veterans, we are built from the ground up as a distributed studio, allowing developers to live and work where they are happiest. We strive to create an environment where we can do our best work regardless of what we look like, who we love, or how we identify. With support operations in New Orleans, Louisiana, the studio also works to identify, mentor, train, and hire individuals from underserved and overlooked communities and backgrounds.
Possibility Space is seeking an experienced Senior QA Analyst to work alongside Engineers, Designers, and Artists to help deliver our product to quality. You will be working directly embedded with a distributed, multi-disciplinary development team, while also working alongside other QA professionals to shore up gaps in test coverage.
Core Responsibilities & Objectives
- Create and maintain living test plan documents and risk assessments on the component level.
- Provide qualitative feedback on features and develop processes to gather feedback from test teams.
- Use data and metrics to provide assessments and trends on feature health/quality.
- Mentor junior QA professionals in multiple different testing types.
- Develop an end-to-end testing strategy for a set of features and/or component areas over multiple development phases, including Validation and Verification testing, Automation opportunities, Performance benchmarks, Exploratory testing, etc.
- Identify and escalate risks, while suggesting mitigation strategies to address those concerns.
Core Traits (Skills, Knowledge, Experience)
- At least three years of experience in Testing.
- At least one year of experience in embedded QA as a QA Analyst, Dev Tester, or equivalent.
- Experienced in writing, executing, and maintaining test cases and test suites.
- Advanced knowledge and experience with different types of testing.
- Able to work with different disciplines and personality types to drive change in products/process.
Bonus Traits
- Experience with Unity.
- Expertise in testing with different platforms.
- Experience with 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.
Possibility Space is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, marital status, medical condition(s), national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances, or common human decency.