Responsibilities:
Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.
Why join Lightspeed LA?
For us, it's not only about the exciting, new AAA open world game we're developing but also about team values and studio culture. We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.
- We encourage the showing of work that's still in progress.
- We don't attack or question unfinished work, we celebrate its promise.
- We have a No Blame Culture where we blame the problem, not the person.
This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things. We create together. We face Challenges Together. We succeed together.
About this position at Lightspeed LA
Lightspeed LA is seeking a Senior QA Tester earnest to work on a new project in Irvine California. They will get to flex their QA muscles and apply their skills on a AAA open world project. The ideal candidate to join our team will have a mixture of experience to draw from, drive for growth, and passion for games and QA. This is an exciting opportunity to have an impact on a fully original title, grow professionally, and make valued relationships. Consider a new chapter in your career with a studio that cares about maintaining a positive company culture as you perform your craft and have fun while doing it.
Responsibilities:
- Design and execute functional and non-functional testing.
- Write up bugs and be able to manage a bug tracking database.
- Identify and assess risks and their impacts to the project.
- Create comprehensive test plans to ensure coverage of the game through test management software.
- Track metrics and overall quality to generate informative reports regularly.
- Document information efficiently on a database wiki.
- Communicate QA findings, updates, and assessments with internal and external team members.
- Collaboration and leadership with all team members where it is impactful.
- Maintain well versed knowledge of the overall game, development processes, and test tools in support of the project.
- Utilize, design, and create automation test setups that can scale with project needs.
Requirements:- Passion for video games with experience and knowledge you can draw upon.
- 3-5 years of QA testing experience having gone through an entire development life cycle on at least one project.
- Experience working in a bug database.
- Experience in developing test plans.
- Strong written and oral communication skills while utilizing strong interpersonal skills.
- Experience with Console and 1st party certification testing.
- Experience with using a wiki to share knowledge efficiently to a team.
Pluses
- Experience working with external developers and QA groups.
- Familiarity with any game engine, programming, scripting, or automating testing.
- Experience with A11Y compliance.
- Experience collaborating directly with developers.
Location State(s)
California
The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $69,600.0 to $94,141.0 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.
