Senior QA Engineer
About The Position
Epic Games is hiring a Senior QA Engineer for its Quality Assurance team. The team owns testing processes, risk management, and quality evaluation across Epic products and functions, working closely with developers and production to support a strong user experience. The Senior QA Engineer will work autonomously within the gameplay pillar and keep stakeholders informed of potential quality risks. The role works with product owners, developers, QA analysts, and QA management to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan test coverage. It includes building tools and automation, examining technical gaps for Unreal Engine and Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) developer tools and builds, and executing functional, qualitative, and performance testing. The engineer will use technical and manual QA methods, apply AI-assisted tools where appropriate, track and report quality data, and test communications between clients and backend services. The position is open in multiple US locations, including Washington.
Requirements
- Strong experience and demonstrated skills writing test automation or QA tools.
- Ability to read code or scripts in multiple languages, including C++, C#, and Python.
- Experience developing test plans and risk mitigation strategies.
- Experience using AI tools and exercising judgment about when their output can be trusted.
- Senior-level QA skills, including strong communication and stakeholder collaboration, mentorship and project leadership, delivery of high-quality work, and identifying ways to improve, optimize, or close testing gaps.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with QA analysts, QA management, product owners, and developers to define acceptance criteria, identify risks, plan test coverage, and build tooling and automation.
- Examine technical gaps and automation initiatives to ensure quality for Unreal Engine and Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) developer tools and builds.
- Develop and drive test strategies and plans covering multiple features in a dynamic environment.
- Use technical and manual QA skills to execute testing, analyze quality, and discover or troubleshoot reported defects and internal issues.
- Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate test planning, automation, and strategy where appropriate.
- Report and track data quality and use it to inform discussions about product quality and development health before, during, and after deployments.
- Test communications between the client and backend services.
- Lead cross-team QA projects or features, mentor junior employees, provide cross-team QA plans, and own test quality improvements.
Benefits
- Most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs, subject to the terms of those plans or programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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