EAX is responsible for the development and delivery of some of EA’s biggest products, including Origin, EA Play, and the new EA Desktop App. The EAX Quality Verification (QV) team is a cross-functional group that manages the releases and quality operations of those products. As part of the EAX Quality Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to work with some of the most cutting edge web technologies on the market today, while supporting the development team in its effort to release world class features for EA’s Player Network initiatives.

As part of EAX’s Data & Content Delivery team, you will be responsible for guiding the automated testing strategy for EAX’s underlying APIs and services that serve millions of players around the world. You will be an advocate for automation and quality, leading key initiatives to ensure that software is released using automated gating mechanisms so that our releases meet our highest quality standards. You will be initiating and leading a team responsible for the development of tools, automated tests, and infrastructure needed to ensure the continuous delivery of EAX’s products and services.

In your day-to-day activities, you will be working with agile development teams, sometimes taking part in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and backlog grooming while helping to identify and fill gaps in test coverage. You will contribute heavily to your team’s suite of processes, best practices, and tooling, while collaborating with development leadership to identify process and tool improvements, product scope changes, and plan priorities and approaches for test execution.

Responsibilities:

Drive the automation strategy for continuously delivering high quality and stable builds for APIs and services that reach millions of users
Be the main point of contact for development partners with regards to automation initiatives
Lead, mentor, and manage a team of quality engineers for scrum teams
Define and deliver on quality metrics, goals and OKRs for QE team
Improve quality engineering processes, best practices, & developer workflows
Collaborate with dev partners in understanding the technical direction, design, and architecture to assist with better testing approaches
Hands-on development for more centralized tools and techniques
Actively participate in prioritization, project scoping, planning, design, and execution
Investigate complex problems and live site issues and drive root cause analysis (RCA).

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, & 7+ years relevant work experience
Good understanding of Test Automation, ideally with 4+ years of hands on experience and with a seasoned QA mindset who is passionate about quality
Strong understanding of QA methodologies and framework.
Good understanding of full stack software development. Knowledgeable about architecture & system design best practices, including scalability & performance considerations
Strong understanding of modern web technologies including REST APIs, GraphQL, and other backend service development
Understanding of common architectural and design patterns
Hands-on experience developing and supporting API services at scale
Familiarity with event-driven and streaming architectures such as ActiveMQ and Kafka
Experience using Git and related tools like GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket etc
Experience mentoring peers and less senior developers
Experienced with modern server oriented technologies (NodeJS), and languages such as TypeScript / JavaScript and Python
Exposure to production deployment practices, including monitoring log files and conducting rollbacks
Experience with a cloud provider (especially AWS) and Kubernetes
Experience with microservices and high-complexity API services

Nice To Have:

Hands on experience with Continuous Delivery, and Agile development, including feature flags and experimentation frameworks is a huge plus
Knowledge and comfort in both Windows and Linux environments
Familiarity in delivering system-level technical design and documentation
Experience working in a cross functional Scrum team
Exposure to variety of build systems

You’ll work closely with

Quality designers, other technical directors, engineering managers and development directors to deliver quality engineering solutions for our development partners
Technical leadership and other groups to determine, road map and provide the best technical strategy and engineering standards to allow our business direction

About EA

At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and maternity and paternity leave, plus free video games and so much more! Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.