Senior Quality Analyst

Requisition Number: 158301

Position Title: Associate Quality Designer

External Description:

Senior Quality Analyst

Join the PopCap Quality Verification team at EA Seattle to work with the world's best game development teams in a creative environment. You'll promote quality through in-depth understanding of software design and integration, and by using tools to identify quality issues and bugs as early as possible. This requires test and technical expertise to provide an amazing experience for the player.

We prefer that you are aware of new technologies, able to work in a high-flux setting, and know how to work, to best organize your time. You are dynamic, enthusiastic and collaborates across both the development and Quality Verification domains to develop productive relationships and communication channels.

Bring your unique skill-set to a team where you directly impact our games every day on a career path that focuses on expanding your testing and engineering skills through learning new techniques and technologies!

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Scope & Impact

Reporting to Quality Assurance Managers, you will work in an embedded Agile environment as an essential and equal part of a multi-discipline team. You will be involved in the development process from design to implementation to release:

• Promote early quality feedback through design documentation and planning meetings
• Identify and build test plans for coverage of the feature, including necessary tools
• Work with Quality Engineering to consider automation requirements and opportunities
• Collaborate with Engineering to test early and verify the functionality
• Partner with remote test teams to provide an optimized test plan of the integrated features
• Use data to communicate the quality status of the features and report any associated risks

You will provide feedback on the quality of the game, identify improvements to tools and workflow and champion quality-first development practices.

Like all PopCap Quality Verification team members, you will share findings and insights and provide mentor-ship and training to others, both local and remote. As part of the EA Quality Verification team, you will have access to a vast network of teams around the globe and the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from peers across diverse studios and genres.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• 4+ years of relevant Quality Verification experience including embedded Quality Verification methodologies
• Understand the software development process: build systems, continuous integration, unit tests, code / data requirements
• Experience finding causes of issues by using tools to investigate common software debug artifacts (callstacks, exceptions, asserts, network calls, logs)
• Well-practiced in Agile Development and optimizing the test process including successful application of defect prevention and containment
• Hands-on experience with Test Automation to improve code stability and improve test coverage
• Experience supporting a Game as a Live Service balancing major planned updates with frequent events while reacting to customer feedback.
• Proficiency with Hansoft and JIRA and development tools such as Perforce and Jenkins
• Excellent skills at handling conflicting demands based on project status and timelines
• A passion for gaming and the ability to critically evaluate the design, art and economy that influence player behavior.
• Bonus: Basic coding skills such as familiarity with SQL calls, loops
• Bonus: Successful collaborator with external test teams

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked

We love to brag about our amazing perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. We realize it takes outstanding people to make outstanding games and that’s why we offer great benefits packages and a culture that grows from creativity and individuality.

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• More about our location: https://www.ea.com/studios/popcap
• Our work schedule: This is a full-time position with typical office hours

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.