Position: Senior QA Analyst
Status: 6 Month Contract (With possibility of extension)
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!
Job Description
The 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.
We are looking for a passionate quality assurance expert, with the potential to have this be a Senior Quality Assurance role if your experience is a match for what we’re looking for. This role is on a 6-month contract, with the potential for further extension.
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 your 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
- Perform Regression of Open and Fixed issues.
- Be aware of issues history and overall quality issues for your assigned areas
- Come up with recommendations, based on issues, to help improve the development process
Qualifications
- 2+ 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 (TestRail)
- Experience with coordinating test runs
- Experience with documenting processes and new testing procedures. (Confluence)
- The ability to work autonomously, prioritize tasks and take ownership of assigned areas
- A passion for video games and interactive storytelling.
- 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.