Associate Quality Designer

Requisition Number: 160084

Position Title: Associate Quality Designer

External Description:

Associate Quality Designer

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.

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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
• Successful collaborator with external test teams
• 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: Hands-on experience with Test Automation to improve code stability and improve test coverage

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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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Days Open: 49

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。