QA Analyst - UGC

Turtle Rock Studios•Irvine, CA

18d•$20 - $24•Hybrid

About The Position

At Turtle Rock, we make the games we want to play. We're dedicated to providing a collaborative environment where our team members feel empowered with the creative freedom to contribute and grow. While we are based in Orange County, CA, we support flexible work arrangements ranging from in-studio, hybrid, to fully remote throughout North America. Join our award-winning game development team and help create our next hit title. Turtle Rock Studios is looking for an exceptional QA Analyst to join our development team. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, passionate about games, has outstanding critical thinking and communication skills, and excels at providing both qualitative and quantitative feedback. In this role you will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and performing comprehensive test plans, critically analyzing, identifying, reporting, and regressing core defects/issues found in the game via white, grey and black-box testing methodologies, close communication and collaboration with members of the development team, and collecting and compiling helpful and relevant documentation for the QA team. This position will report to the QA Director.

Requirements

3+ years as QA in software/game development
Understanding of Quality Assurance methodologies and best practices
Proactive problem solver with a proven track record for getting ahead of issues
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Exceptional attention to detail with strong organizational skills
Able to effectively work autonomously with a supportive team given limited direction/details
Jira/Confluence savvy
Experience in agile development methodologies
Technical mindset with knowledge of game engines and how they function
Active participation in a modding community for current or recent games
Demonstrated understanding of modding processes and pipelines. Please provide examples of your work!

Nice To Haves

Experience creating custom content for Unreal Engine games is strongly preferred. Mod.io or equivalent

Responsibilities

Identify, analyze, report, and regress defects found within the product
Design, develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive test plans and development tasks, with a focus on user generated content tools, pipelines and processes
Maintain a strong understanding and knowledge base of our game design and core gameplay features
Provide clear and consistent qualitative feedback on the game to relevant teams/contributors
Collaborate with members of QA, production and development to align and execute on daily priorities
Work in an embedded QA format with the TRS engineering team to help craft and debug the user generated content tools and pipeline for our current projects