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.
QA at Epic
What We 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.
Epic Games is looking to significantly expand its internal full-time Quality Assurance team for Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine is a complete suite of development tools made for anyone working with real-time technology. From enterprise applications and cinematic experiences to high-quality games across PC, console, mobile, VR and AR, Unreal Engine gives our users everything they need to start, ship, grow, and stand out from the crowd.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic.
What You’ll Do
As a QA Lead on Unreal Engine, you will own the people management, process, and risk management of your specific team. Additional responsibilities will range from building test strategies, defect management, driving organizational change, and mapping out QA hiring priorities and staffing plans. The position requires being a leader in QA, as both a people manager and someone who isn’t afraid to dig into the details of problems and find innovative solutions at scale. If you are comfortable in a fast paced environment and have the desire to lead a strong test-focused team, then we would like to talk to you.
In this role, you will
- Develop major testing initiatives using a combination of process, people, and effective testing methodologies
- Set expectations for QA Analysts, Testers, and Technical QA
- Provide guidance and mentorship in the development of both hard and soft skills
- Map out testing strategies to solve for the challenges of now and the challenges of the future
- Lead your team in their use of data to develop proper risk assessment profiles while identifying major risks in a fast paced environment
- Partnering with developers and production to build sustainable testing solutions that likely include a mix of manual efforts, tooling, and automation.
- Implementing KPIs for product quality
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of Quality Assurance experience
- Capability to lead a QA team both as a people manager and tactical driver of success
- Formal QA certification, such as ISTQB or equivalent experience
- Experience in both software and games development
- Experience in reviewing requirements and creating test plans with automation in mind
- A deep understanding of defect reporting, version control, and configuration management best practices, along with different testing phase best practices and objectives (functional, system integration, UAT, performance)
- Technical Background - has the ability to contribute in day-to-day efforts when needed
- Supported a SaaS product
- Experience working with Unreal Engine 4 or other Game Engines
