Associate Quality Designer

Requisition Number: 173603

Position Title: Associate Quality Designer

External Description:

Electronic Arts is an innovative tech company that creates incredible experiences for millions of gamers around the world. But what matters most is our people who inspire us, and the world, to play. As we bring new forms of entertainment to people around the world, we need innovative, collaborative, diverse and adaptable people to keep making Electronic Arts better.

The Next Great Associate Quality Designer Needs:
College Football is looking for you to fill an Associate Quality Designer (AQD) role for the Quality Verification team. Associate Quality Designers (AQD) at EA are deeply embedded in development and will test, document, and analyze the game during production. The AQD role is a versatile role with many areas of focus and responsibilities, who acts as a catalyst, understand the game design, and ensures its features are tested in the correct way so the quality of the game lives up to our players’ expectations. This position will require you to provide oversight of our quality processes and establish best practices for our QV family together with our leadership team. In addition, you will need an in-depth understanding of the technical structure of games, how to apply new testing methodologies and be able to speak to what tools will be the most effective. Above all, an Associate Quality Designer must demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the industry, including the different platforms, game styles, and genres to ensure the team is focused on providing the strongest end-to-end coverage and experience for EA's players, and to help us support its commitment to putting Players First.

Responsibilities:

• You will build working relationships with members of the development, production, and design teams to help us promote a higher quality player experience through tasks such as feature planning, analyzing internal data/player data, and feature/design reviews.
• You will be a mentoring resource for local and remote QV teams, to help us resolve complex problems and growing their capabilities as testers.
• Propose and bring solutions to problems from senior leadership.
• End-to-end review of quality strategy, and test plans, as well as test cases.
• Support identification of technical solutions and automation opportunities.
• Understand current process and workflow – drive improvements and knowledge sharing across the sports QV teams.
• Report progress and status through verbal or written communication with appropriate managers and other team members.

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience, preferably in Quality Assurance
• Experience with Jira or other defect tracking software
• Experience with Agile/Scrum software development.
• Experience writing test documentation including test cases, test plans, etc.
• Knowledge of software development methodology and stages (milestones/sprints, Alpha, Beta)
• Knowledge of gaming consoles and their systems.
• Knowledge of testing/planning tools
• Knowledgeable on white/gray/black box testing practices

Desired Qualifications:
• Experienced with development collaboration tools
• Experience working with offsite teams
• A desire to use innovative testing means such as automation and data, to improve testing
• Knowledge of football, preferably college football (Nice to have, but not required)

EA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

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Days Open: 56

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.