This job listing expired on Dec 24, 2020
From humble beginnings KING Art has become one of the most important game development studios in Germany. With our roots in Point&Click Adventures we focus today on storydriven RPGs and Strategy games. Almost twenty years of experience are accompanying us - and almost everyone who joined us stays with us until this very day. Great teamwork, respect, hard work and passion is what defines us as a team. This is important to us and that is why we at KING Art have clear values:
- There is no “Hire & Fire” mentality at KING Art. We want to keep the team together because we believe that knowing the strengths and weaknesses of everybody leads to less stress and better games
- We don't believe in crunch time and we don't believe that you get the best results under pressure. We have no interest in burning out our people
- We want to make great games. We have a passion for games and the budgets finally fit our ambitions. Our goal is to make games people love. Not like. Love!
- We grow with the people who are working here. There are no outside investors or pie-in-the-sky plans for the future. We founded KING Art 19 years ago and we are growing ever since
- We believe that staying in close collaboration with our community leads to better games, and that it allows us to hit the spot for our players
- We value to be open about how we develop our games, teach at universities, give talks and help young developers with word and deed
You are:
- A QA Tester with at least 3+ years hands-on experience in game quality assurance.
- A self-starter with the ability to work independently and solve problems with minimal supervision.
- Gathered experience leading small to mid-size testing teams.
- Understanding the process of complete game development and test cycles.
- Proven ability to create test cases, checklists, and test plans.
- Have a very good process and time management, planning, prioritizing and delegating skills.
- Comfortable working closely with senior staff members from various disciplines towards product releases.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with very good attention to detail.
- Proficient at communicating in English.
- Have at least one shipped title.
You will:
- Work with Product and Development teams to identify test requirements and plan testing for features and builds, including releases of our live games.
- Create and maintain efficient testcases for general product maintenance, features and releases.
- Own the release pipeline during the live operations of one of our games.
- Organize testcases and testing capacities with our external QA partners.
- Setup and organize triage meetings with senior staff members.
- Attend daily meetings with cross-functional teams as a representative of the QA team.
- Prioritize and delegate QA testing to ensure testing schedules are met, releases can go out on time.
- Drive the development and improvements of our QA pipeline, test plans, and checklists to verify the functionality and performance of new features.
- Create clear and detailed bug reports and manage the products bug databases.
- Mentor additional QA resources.
- Work in a fast paced environment requiring frequent shift in areas of focus.
Applications are welcome in German or English.