What You Will Do Embedded within the 4X Combat Pod, you will play a critical role in validating the core systems that define moment-to-moment combat, tactical depth, and strategic balance. You will ensure the quality, stability, and integrity of all combat-related features — from buff logic and PvP interactions to PVE raids and ability execution. Feature QA • Execute manual and exploratory testing for combat systems, ensuring correct implementation of buffs, debuffs, and real-time interactions between player and AI entities. • Conduct regression and integration testing to maintain consistency across combat features, balancing updates, and cross-system dependencies. • Document, track, and prioritize issues in JIRA, providing clear and actionable feedback to developers and designers. • Maintain detailed and up-to-date test plans, test cases, and verification matrices for all combat and systemic features. 4X Combat QA • Combat Engine & Systems Validation: Test and validate the Combat Engine and its underlying simulation logic, ensuring deterministic outcomes, correct damage resolution, and synchronization between client and server states. • Buff & Modifier Systems: Verify the Buff Engine and status effect systems, confirming correct stacking behavior, duration handling, and interaction rules between multiple buff/debuff sources. • Ship & Base PvP Testing: Execute comprehensive test passes for Ship vs. Ship and Base vs. Base PvP, validating combat resolution, targeting logic, ability cooldowns, and victory conditions under various configurations. • PvE Scenarios & Raiding: Test Hostile PvE encounters and Raiding systems, confirming AI behavior, wave spawning logic, targeting priorities, and loot distribution across different tiers and power levels. • Active Abilities & Edge Cases: Validate Active Ship Abilities and their impact within combat simulations, ensuring visual synchronization, cooldown handling, and expected interactions with buffs and environmental modifiers. Metadata & Fixture Testing: Collaborate with developers to test fixture setups, universe configurations, and web panel metadata to ensure data consistency and correct communication between backend tools and in-game systems. • Quality Advocacy: Champion combat quality and systemic integrity, providing structured feedback on balancing, pacing, and technical reliability. Identify opportunities for automation, test plan optimization, and smarter regression coverage across the combat suite.

• Execution: Act as the main testing force for your implementation team, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality marketing platform. • Automation & API: Design, write, and maintain robust UI automation using C#, Selenium, and xUnit, and manage API testing using Postman and Newman. • Hands-on Testing: Perform comprehensive manual and exploratory testing across the full technology stack, including web applications, microservices, databases, and Azure/Microsoft function apps. • Testing will cover the entire software delivery lifecycle, from local development to staging and post-production environments. • Team Mentorship: Provide direct help and support to the QA Engineer in your team, helping them translate their skills into real-world software solutions. • Lifecycle Integration: Participate in sprint ceremonies and refinement sessions to identify risks and improve testability before development begins. • Bug Triage & Investigation: Use SQL queries, application logs, and browser dev tools to investigate complex issues and user queries. • Release Ownership: Document test cases and regression steps in Azure DevOps and support the product deployment and release processes.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for our PHP and JS/TS applications, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests • Conduct thorough code reviews with a focus on quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices • Collaborate with development teams to identify gaps in test coverage and establish testing strategies for new and existing features • Build and maintain CI/CD testing pipelines to catch issues early in the development lifecycle • Explore and implement AI-assisted testing tools and workflows to accelerate test creation, improve coverage, and enhance defect detection • Define and document QA processes, test plans, and quality standards across the organization • Triage, reproduce, and document bugs with clear and actionable detail for development teams • Participate in technical discussions to advocate for quality considerations throughout the development process • Stay current on testing methodologies, tools, and emerging AI/ML applications in QA to continuously improve our capabilities

• Develop and maintain both manual and automated test processes and procedures to ensure software quality • Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases • Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to understand new product features • Conduct manual testing of new and existing functionality • Diagnose issues, report defects, and develop regression tests to prevent issues from recurring • Report and document technical issues • Create logs to document test cases and defects • Report bugs and errors to development teams • Help troubleshoot issues • Work with customers to identify steps to reproduce issues • Collaborate with Tier 1 support to clarify bug reports