Senior QA Engineer

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is in the business of creating fun games we want to play and building the art and tools we need to bring those games to life. We provide our engine technology to developers around the world and consistently strive to stay on the cutting edge of our industry. We iterate to improve everything, every day: our games, our technology, our processes, even our workspaces and people. This unrelenting focus on innovation and quality defines us.

Our QA Engineers work with product owners, developers, and QA management to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming features and releases. QA Engineers develop and implement automation utilizing technical tooling, including Al, to expand QA coverage across multiple features. You will facilitate functional, qualitative, and performance testing efforts while using a mix of technical testing skills across your product space to analyze and report on quality. At the senior level the expectation is to be able to work in a highly autonomous environment within the gameplay pillar while regularly keeping stakeholders informed of potential quality risks.

In this role, you will

• Work with QA analysts, QA management, product owners, and other developers to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, plan test coverage, and, crucially, build tooling and automation to improve efficiency across the team
• Examine technical gaps and automation initiatives to ensure quality for both Unreal Engine and Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) developer tools and build
• Build and drive test strategies and test plans to cover multiple features in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Use a mix of technical and manual QA skills to execute a variety of testing techniques across the product to analyze quality while discovering or troubleshooting reported defects and internal issues
• Leverage Al-assisted tools to speed up test plan, automation, and strategy where possible
• Report and track data quality and use that data to drive conversations around product quality and development health, supporting the dev team before, during, and after deployments
• Test communications between the client and backend services

What we're looking for

• Strong experience and demonstrated skills in writing test automation or QA tools, as well as reading code or scripts in multiple languages (C++/C#/Python)
• Experience developing test plans and risk mitigation strategies
• Experience using Al tools and judgement about when their output can be trusted
• QA cross team project or feature leadership, including mentoring more junior employees, providing cross team QA plans, and owning test quality improvements - gap analysis or optimization efforts
• QA Engineer skills & strengths at a senior level, which includes, strong communication skills and ability to confidently collaborate with stakeholders and with partner teams, the ability to provide mentorship and lead projects, and deliver high quality work products; looks for and suggests ways to improve / optimize/close testing gaps

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games​ ​is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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