At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team to ensure top-notch quality in game development.
- Company: Inspired, a leading game development studio focused on quality.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible hours, and opportunities for growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on agile methodologies.
- Why this job: Be the guardian of quality and make games shine for players worldwide.
- Qualifications: Experience in manual testing and a passion for gaming.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
At Inspired, QA is seen as the bastion of quality and will be expected to work closely with developers to make sure the content we produce is of the highest standard and fit for the territories in which they’ll be played. You will operate within a small team of QA testers that will work closely with our development teams enabling the smooth transition to the Content Test team when development is complete. You will be required to ensure that features and games are tested in a continuous manner during development, in a well maintained and suitable QA environment. This will involve the creation of acceptance tests within an agile environment and maintaining those tests throughout development. A successful applicant will have a detailed and analytical approach to following test cases and a strong interest in agile testing.
Responsibilities
- Work as an integral member of the game development team to test features as they are developed
- Develop user story acceptance criteria and maintain them as the project progresses
- Create and maintain acceptance test scripts throughout development
- Constantly run and regress those test scripts during and after game development
- Communicate reproduction steps and general issues to developers within your team
- Understanding the games and the rules in which they operate
- Operate and maintain the QA hardware/software environment
- Handover test results and issues to the next stage in the testing pipeline
- Provide test assistance to teams throughout the studio as and when needed
Skills Required
- Commercial manual test experience
- BCS/ISTQB (ISEB) Foundation level in software testing
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Analytical and detailed approach to problem solving
- Proven technical support skills or experience
- Experience in testing software integration with hardware
- Experience working as a tester within agile teams
