QA Engineer

We have an incredible opportunity on our QA Team, to be part of something extraordinary, helping us craft the Total War franchise. As QA Engineer, you will assist the core teams in perfecting a player experience worthy of one of the best games in the genre, by locating design and tech flaws and pinpointing potential bugs, while communicating effectively with a variety of specialists in various fields.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing test plans.
• Identifying areas that require additional debugging or tool support.
• Using automation to achieve efficient and comprehensive test coverage of a product or feature from conception to post-release.
• Identifying which test plans would benefit from automation and using the automation frameworks provided by the automation team to create automated test cases.
• Championing quality within the wider development team and encouraging quality at all stages of development through the principles of shift left testing.
• Facilitating the discussion of quality and encouraging QA best practices.
• Identifying areas for early testing that will save on test or dev effort later.
• Identifying features that require additional scripts, debugging or automation.
• Creating or requesting additional test tools from feature owners that increase test efficiency.
• Creating test plans that help test against player value and assess quality.
• Assessing which test cases would benefit from automation on a time saved from manual testing vs time spent automating test cases basis.
• Using in-house automated frameworks and basic scripting to automate test cases.
• Maintaining existing automated test cases within the automation frameworks and documenting new automation created.
• Contributing to discussions and knowledge sharing around automation and improving test quality.
• Assisting QA Managers with compiling and prioritising the automation backlog.
• Collaborating with a wider team of developers and test engineers.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

Essential

• Significant experience working in QA in a development studio.
• Experience of the development process from production to post-release.
• Understanding of automation and where it is best applied.
• Experience with PASTA or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience working in waterfall and agile development methodologies.
• A desire to champion QA best practices at every stage of development.
• Able to understand and assist with testing solutions for technical development practices such as continuous integration and automated testing.

Desirable

• Competent in a programming language such as C# or basic scripting capabilities.
• Knowledgeable on shift left test principles.
• Ability to work autonomously to discern tasks and take a proactive approach to their area of responsibility.

About Creative Assembly

Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades. We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities. We are located in Horsham, UK, Newcastle, UK, and Sofia, Bulgaria.

We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:

• Work from Anywhere for a temporary period each year (restrictions apply such as VISAs).
• Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours, and no-notice holidays.
• Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents.
• Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening.
• Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, and all Bank holidays.
• Join our Diversity and Inclusion Network - an employee-led group.
• Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site.
• Wellbeing support and virtual confidential counselling.
• Community activities including parties, football and more.
• Our studio sites have disabled access.

Hybrid working

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.