QA Tester

Overview

1047 Games began with the simple principle that people should have fun while making great games. Bucking convention and driven by a passion to create the ultimate gaming experience, Ian Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian founded 1047 Games in 2017 in their Stanford dorm room. Their love for arena shooters of the past drove them to create Splitgate, a unique sci-fi first-person shooter that adds portal guns to upend the genre. 

What started as two computer science majors putting portals into a first-person shooter for a project demo has evolved into a VC-backed company which has raised more than $120MM in funding. 

At 1047 Games, you’ll find a permanently remote, dedicated team of top-tier talent from some of the world’s biggest gaming and tech companies who share our founders’ vision. Grit, ingenuity, a desire to have fun, and a start up mentality define our crew. We are currently working on a brand new shooter in the Splitgate universe.

Who We're Looking For:

We are looking for an experienced QA tester who loves games and genuinely cares about the quality of games. As a QA tester at 1047 Games, you will advocate for quality and ensure that we meet our extreme high quality bar.

• A hard worker: You love to put in the extra effort, because you enjoy your work and know the impact of finishing the tasks at hand.
• Passion for gaming: You can recognize what separates exceptional games from the average ones. You understand the mindset of gamers which enables you to evaluate games from multiple play styles and provide feedback accordingly. 
• Creative player/tester: You don't just let bugs happen to you; you seek bugs out. 
• A great communicator: You build lasting relationships at work and are a team player. 
• Seasoned QA veteran: You shipped multiple AAA titles 
• QA efficiency guru: You can see QA process inefficiencies and bottlenecks and can recommend solutions. 
• Preventer: You can identify applicable processes/opportunties outside of QA that need to change to prevent wasteful QA workload. 
• Flexible: You know that you will need to contribute more time to get the job done to release milestones and various deliverables. 
• Self-starter: You don't require hand-holding, and seek out work whenever a task is done. 
• Ready to work remotely: You have work from home experience, prefer working remotely and are reliable, dedicated, and collaborative. 

Responsibilities

• Test the game and report finding via JIRA, reports, and by other means if needed/requested. 
• Help mentor newer members of the team. 
• Assist QA Manager with establishing QA standards, methodologies, and test strategies. 
• Define and improve standards for test cases and test reports. 
• Collaborate with our development team to identify quality issues to be achieved. 
• Provide support to the QA team on assigned tasks. 
• Help establish bug reporting workflows within each project. 
• Partner with producers to ensure that projects stay on schedule for planned QA phases. 
• Regularly communicate updates to project stakeholders. 
• Use bug tracking data to analyze quality challenges and work with development team to reduce quality issues. 

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in the gaming industry
• 3+ years of experience with a first person shooter (FPS) project 
• Experience with major consoles and expertise with PC 
• Experience with working with Atlassian Suite 
• Ability to provide clear and concise creative feedback 
• Proficiency of end-to-end game QA process 
• Experience with Xray or similar test case management software 
• Proficient knowledge of JIRA 
• Own an up-to-date gaming PC 
• Have sufficient and reliable internet - able to download large quantities of data each month

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge on localization, functional, automated, compliance, and certification testing
• Experience with Live Operations and games as a service from a Quality Assurance perspective
• Development QA experience