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As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re searching for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

PERKS & BENEFITS

  • Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
  • 100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
  • Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
  • Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
  • Yoga & Wellness Activities
  • Happy Hours
  • Company Events
  • Dog Friendly

Jam City's LA Studio is looking for a skilled Quality Assurance Analyst to join our team and help us grow. You will be responsible for assisting in all aspects of quality assurance for Genies & Gems, an exceptional match 3 game looking to level-up its player experience in celebration of over 5 years of updates! We're looking for someone who will dive into complex problems while looking out for how our we are releasing new content for our players. We need excellent communicators (both written and verbal) with sound judgement, great documentation, and solid analytical thinking. If you have prior QA experience, are a hard worker and want to deliver on and level up these skills, we are looking for you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Become familiar with our game, particular our events, login, and progression mechanics.
  • Work with Game Designers and stay up to date with live game content.
  • Provide rigorous testing for game features, platform functionality, and development tools.
  • Attend feature design meetings and create internal documentation for testing process and tools needed to ensure QA coverage.
  • Create and maintain test scenarios for features and live updates.
  • Be the voice of quality by providing design & engineering feedback early from a technical and end-user perspective.
  • Partner with Customer Support and other teams at Jam City to identify and diagnose live game issues and gauge customer impact.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Familiarity with mobile games and user experiences.
  • Knowledge of the Apple or Android family of mobile devices.
  • Demostrate strong analytical & problem-solving skills.
  • Must be detail-oriented, well-organized and able to multi-task effectively.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Passion for learning new systems and technologies with a high degree of ownership & accountability for our players' experience.
  • Proactively investigating and advocating fixes for player or user facing issues with our features & tools.
  • Adaptability within a high-velocity work environment.

NICE TO HAVE

  • Familiarity with bug tracking software (JIRA, Bugzilla, etc.)
  • Familiarity with Xcode, and Android Studio.
  • Previous games industry experience on an internal team with an emphasis on mobile or social gaming platforms.
  • Familiarity with GitHub or other development platforms.
  • BA/BS in Game Design, Computer Science and/or related technical experience.

CHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:

  • Company news and events on our LinkedIn
  • Company Blog
  • Employee Feedback on our Comparably page
  • Find videos on our teams and games on our Youtube

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION

We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more.

Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

ABOUT JAM CITY

Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.

Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.

The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.

Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.