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Associate Quality Designer

Location: Galway, Ireland

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Requisition Number: 176400

Position Title: Associate Quality Designer

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Associate Quality Designer 9 Month Temporary Contract

Electronic Arts

Galway

The Associate Quality Designer (AQD) will join us on the SONAR team, this is a 9 Month Temporary, hybrid position.

SONAR is a centralized organisation in EA fully focused on Production services, with a drive to Safeguard the Player experience by delivering support across Live QV, Advertisement Technologies, and Retail Automation.

As an AQD, you will be an important part of our development process and play a key role in the quality of our games. In this role, you will demonstrate sound technical platform and game knowledge, have a strong quality mindset and effective partner management. The AQD will also be accountable for planning and managing test coverage on client and server releases, reporting on results, and confirming the success of a release. You will report to the Development Director.

Responsibilities:

  • Establish custom Live strategies on your project.
  • Work with product owners to identify risks and plan testing for live releases.
  • Design test plans, including scheduling, reporting, and execution.
  • Analyze and investigate reported bugs and issues.
  • Attend initial and regular partner meetings to discuss strategy, challenges, and results.
  • Utilize player information proximity, studio partnerships, tools, and data to understand player sentiment and investigate and assess player facing issues
  • Perform identification, escalation, and elimination of central issues.
  • Aim to reduce manual test hours by utilizing automation, supported by data and tools, to guide risk-based testing efforts.

 

Qualifications:

  • A passion for quality.
  • Previous games or software development QA experience (2+ years).
  • Knowledge of gaming consoles and their systems.
  • Determination to achieve quality in an environment with conflicting priorities and shifting requirements.
  • Ability to build partnerships across geographically distributed teams.
  • Proactive, curious, and flexible.
  • Experience with applications such as JIRA, Confluence, TestRail.
  • Understanding of test automation, telemetry, or data analysis.

 

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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.

Days Open: 45

Can this position be remote?: 0

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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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