Frontier Developments are the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution, Elite Dangerous, Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo. We are Britain’s biggest independent publisher and developer of videogames, based among the world-leading technology cluster in the historic city of Cambridge, England.
We are seeking a new addition to our QA Localisation team who is looking to challenge themselves in a role that includes both working as part of a team and on individual assignments. If you have a keen eye for detail with a passion for games and game-play then we'd love to hear from you!
Successful candidates will work closely with both QA colleagues and our Localisation team to ensure game builds are free of common text issues before providing builds for LQA testing. You’ll construct tests across new and existing projects and hardware to guide LQA through localisation implementations, you will not be required to understand the translations. Other areas will include providing support to our internal functionality QA team when required, generating reports and providing general game feedback to aid the internal development teams.
You’ll be joining during an exciting period of growth at Frontier and as part of our QA team your work will help ensure the continued level of quality of our current games. We welcome applications from those with or without QA experience.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining communication with the Localisation team to ensure QA are up to date with the latest translations.
- Organising game builds and documentation to send to external LQA.
- Reviewing game features and creating test suites to guide external LQA testers around the new content.
- Sanity checking translations to ensure they’re free of truncation /overlapping /unsupported characters /untranslated text issues before sending to external LQA.
- Providing support to external LQA testers whilst they complete their checks.
- Providing support to QA Functionality teams when required.
- Finding and reporting issues in a clear and accurate manner
- Regressing both internal and external issues
- Completing ad-hoc requests made to the QA team
- Providing support to other Frontier teams as needed.
About you
- Inquisitive and technical mind
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast changing environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Pro-active and self-motivated attitude
- Creative thinker.
Qualifications, skills and experience
Essential
- Computer literate
- Proven logical and methodical approach to problem solving
- Track record of working well within a team.
Desirable
- Prior localisation QA experience
- Knowledge of JIRA and Test Rail
- Video game enthusiast
- Strong technical knowledge of the leading consoles and PC
- Games industry experience
What we can offer you
At Frontier we believe your work should be rewarding in every way. We offer the chance to work on blockbuster franchises and world-leading IP in a studio environment considered one of the best places to work in the UK.
We also offer a range of flexible benefits to our 550+ team, including life assurance, private family healthcare, pension, flexitime working hours, enhanced maternity/paternity package, in-house catering, support with relocation, a Cycle to Work scheme and free bike servicing, regular in-house wellbeing sessions, regular social events, and annual bonus and sharesave schemes for everyone to share in the studio’s success.
We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
