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Group Technical Director

Mehrere Standorte: Vancouver, BC, Canada • Orlando, FL, USA • Austin, TX, USA • Redwood City, CA, USA

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Requisition Number: 166758

Position Title: Technical Director II

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The Opportunity Ahead

 

Do you want to help make games better? As a Group Technical Director in the Mobile Quality Verification team, you will report to the Senior QV Director. As part of the worldwide Quality Verification organisation you will help improve the way we make and test games across the EA's Mobile studios group. We are looking for a curious and passionate person who is always looking for ways to improve the quality of life for QA, developers, and the ultimate experience for our players. Your insights and your influence will allow us to make the highest quality games possible and have fun whilst doing it.

 

Using automated testing, workflow tools, and data insights, your team makes it as easy as possible to create and test high-quality games, you will help ensure that the game will always be stable through all stages of development.

 

Are you someone who knows "we can do better", and can walk that path? Then we want to hear from you.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Create technical strategies to ensure effective QA engagements across multiple groups and projects.
  • Guide the quality development discipline forwards as part of the global Quality Technology Council and the worldwide Quality Verification organization.
  • Participate in the Quality Verification planning and strategies for each product within the Mobile group.
  • Ensure the excellence of our embedded and in-sourced tools development services.
  • Oversee all project dependencies, risks, and critical paths. 
  • Promote achievement of the Quality Verification team’s business goals and develop policies for sharing software, technical innovation, business processes and other intellectual property.
  • Help create a strong technical community by developing excellent relationships with technical peers in game development teams and other groups throughout EA studios.
  • Work with other team leaders to manage change.
  • Lead, coach and mentor software engineers on the team.
  • Recruit and retain great people to the team and company.

 

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or Software Engineering or equivalent.
  • At least 10 years’ technology industry technical experience working on tools, test automation, and software development.
  • At least 4 years’ technology industry technical experience working with video games.
  • Knowledge of game application technologies, spanning client, server, live operations and infrastructure systems.
  • Game development contributions that demonstrate the above requirements with a high level of proficiency.
  • Balance technical, team, product, project and business requirements for successful outcomes.
  • Experience leading technical teams that are distributed across multiple studios and time zones.
  • Change management, experience adapting/changing status quo and traversing changes with people, products, and processes.
  • Experience with multi-studio development.
  • Experience developing new talent.
  • Able to travel.

 

Given that you will have a role with a worldwide scope, there are no specific location requirements. We are open to candidates who prefer to work remotely.

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Electronic Arts Inc. ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter interaktiver Unterhaltungssoftware. EA bietet Spiele, Inhalte und Online-Dienste für internetfähige Spielkonsolen, Personalcomputer, Mobiltelefone und Tablets an.

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Days Open: 115

Can this position be remote?: 1

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