Quebec, Canada
About Skymap Games
Skymap is a game development studio based in Manchester, NH with subsidiaries world wide. Founded in 2013, Skymap develops its own original titles and partners with other studios to help promising projects realize their full potential.
You can learn more about the studio and portfolio of titles at https://skymap.com
Our Values
- Providing opportunities for employees of Skymap to contribute to our games and culture at any level of the organization.
- Hiring folks with a can-do attitude, excellent communication skills, and strong technical fundamentals. We want to work with people who are kind and helpful.
- Employees are a culture add, not a culture fit. Diversity is strength.
We Provide
- Most positions are fully remote.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents.
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, and term life insurance.
- RRSP with matching.
- 4 weeks paid time off, sick leave, and holiday policies.
- Paid professional development time.
- Strong work-life balance and anti-crunch policies.
* Not all benefits are available to part-time employees.
Job Description
Lead QA Tester
Remote (based in Quebec)
Skymap Games is hiring a Lead QA tester to help us deliver the highest quality games possible by providing insightful feedback and technical analysis. In this role you will think creatively and analytically to thoroughly test games for bugs and crashes, as well as to provide non-technical feedback on gameplay mechanics, aesthetics, feel, etc. You will create detailed logs and meet with a team from each project to discuss your findings.
Responsibilities
- Define, implement, and maintain a solid QA framework and process
- Be able to provide a holistic quality overview of upcoming changes or additions at any given time, through relevant tracking and reporting
- Coordinate testing needs surrounding technical investigation of issues uncovered through negative KPI trends and/or Customer Support escalations
- Build and deploy testing suites and cases to verify game feature functionality
- Complete directed and ad hoc testing of game features
- Create and execute a testing plan for passing console certification
- Advocate for the quality of the player experience
Qualifications
- 5 years of experience with at least 1 title shipped as a lead
- Excellent communication and effective time management skills
- Proactive, enthusiastic, and self-motivated
- Exceptional reporting capabilities
- Knowledge of JIRA and/or similar bug tracking systems
- Experience supporting multiple platforms (PC, Console)
- Experience with console certification process
- Passion for making video games the best they can be
- Works well in a team and independently
Pluses
- Experience in online and open-world games
- Knowledge and experience working with Unreal and Unity
- Familiarity with automation frameworks
