Kabam Vancouver is looking for a Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our central technology team to support our game teams, who run our systems in their games. You will bring a consistent and reliable testing framework to our various development teams to help improve code quality, development works and ultimately game health, as well as alleviate QA needs on performance testing and basic functional testing. You will have the opportunity to work on systems that cover various areas of development technologies, including, server, client, service reliability; build features on existing technologies, or by expanding technologies that we currently have. Also enjoy the flexibility to focus on areas of your personal interest.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Help the central development teams discover acceptance criteria in user stories
- Measure and reduce the rate of defects escaping central development into game development (and even worse to players)
- Execute Testing methodologies and optimize coding-standards
- Review unit tests written by developers
- Optimize and refactor existing code for improvement
- Implement, maintain, and improve CI/CD systems.
In order to be successful for this role, we are looking for:
- A quality-oriented candidate with a background in and passion for helping others to improve the quality of their output
- A high degree of understanding for integration tools and automations into test planning
- Proficiency in software engineering fundamentals such as source control and CI/CD pipelines
- The ability to write and automate a variety of tests from automated tests, API tests, or performance tests
- Willingness to learn a diverse range of workflows and process so that they can influence and demonstrate to other development and ops teams
In addition, It would be nice to have:
- Familiarity with a variety of programming/scripts languages
- Comfortability with game development and/or web development
- Comfortability with app containerization, virtual machines or similar technologies
Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and continue to entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games for mobile devices. They merge consumer behaviour with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the console in every player’s pocket.
Kabam has partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises.
Kabam’s games have generated hundreds of millions of downloads including Fast & Furious 6: The Game, Fast & Furious: Legacy, Marvel Contest of Champions, Transformers: Forged to Fight, Shop Titans and Mini Guns. These games have also received multiple awards such as Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, San Francisco and Austin. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
