The Software Engineer role is responsible for collaborating with QA and development to identify and create automation solutions, scripts, and strategies, targeted toward improving game infrastructure and increasing efficiencies in the QV process. This person plays a key role in ensuring seamless consumer experience by focusing on upstream quality and targeting defect prevention and containment by assisting with generation and analysis of testing strategies, improving automation efforts, white box testing, identifying new testing technologies and developing new tools for testing and tracking purposes.
Responsibilities:
Identify areas of improvement through new tools and automation strategies.
Build, test, and deploy automated solutions to support game project deliverables.
Support an increased adoption of automation within game teams
Identify and recommend debug and telemetry enhancements to aid testing.
Providing debug support and technical expertise to QV teams and game software engineers.
Participate in knowledge sharing sessions and increasing knowledge of existing tools, automation and testing processes.
Analyze risks of new features – impact and scope.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software engineering or equivalent.
Professional experience with a focus on concepts, language varieties. Experience with C# and/or Java.
Strong understanding of software development life cycle, practices and software engineering methodologies and their application to both development and QA.
Excellent understanding of software quality assurance concepts, debugging processes and procedures.
Scripting experience with Python, Perl, PHP, or Lua an asset.
Preferred knowledge in gaming consoles or embedded systems.
About EA
We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers.
We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more.
Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.
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