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Competitive Quality Designer – Apex Legends Competitive Gaming

Based in Chatsworth, CA

Reports to Lead Product Manager - Apex Legends CGE

We are building a team to drive competitive gaming for Apex Legends globally. We are looking for passionate, determined, and humble individuals with the imagination to innovate and lead in the industry. Together we will inspire the world to play competitively and make stars of all our players.

An essential part of the team is the Competitive Quality Designer. You’ll focus on the quality level and integrity of Apex Legends competitive gaming. Your collaborative mindset will strengthen partnerships with the development team and third-party partners to ensure that all tournaments run smoothly. You’ll join a tightly integrated team that crafts strategies to grow the business and drive player and viewer engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the technology supporting the Apex Legends Global Series is well maintained, stable, secure, and ready for competition
  • Manage bug entry, verification, reproduction, and prioritization
  • Report on game issues
  • Provide onsite and remote support of online and offline events
  • Develop and document best practices for managing online and offline event pre-production, setup, and troubleshooting
  • Contribute to equipment setup, support, and teardown at offline events
  • Partner with the QA, Development, and readiness teams and the competitive Apex Legends community

Requirements

  • 2+ years of video game quality assurance, quality control, or testing or technical event production experience
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Passion for technology and creating solutions using technology
  • Ability to build strong working relationships built on mutual trust
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Availability to work on call, work on weekends, and travel internationally

Desirable Assets

  • Passion for Apex Legends or Competitive Gaming
  • Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft XDK, and Sony PlayStation 4 SDK
  • Esports experience
  • Fluency in more than 1 language

EA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Benefits

We are proud of the great perks we offer, like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match, and of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes outstanding people to build world-class competitive gaming programs, we offer excellent compensation packages and a culture that appreciates creativity and individuality.

We look forward to receiving your application!