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Quality Assurance Analyst – 12-month contract
Location
Canada
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
$55K - $65K / year
Seniority
Junior
Job Description
Quality Assurance Analyst – 12-month contract
Blackbird Interactive
• Test software for functionality, reliability, and/or performance. • Report bugs and defects into an online database, ensuring that all necessary information is included and easy to understand. Including tracking game stability and performance. • Contribute to the overall test planning, by creating, running and scheduling Test Scripts for your assigned game area(s). • Effectively communicate the status of your assigned game area(s) to both Internal and External Production & Development teams. • Perform risk analysis and escalate issues to QA management when necessary. • Work embedded with the development team alongside functionality testing. • Participate in review of requirements and designs, communicating concerns and/or risks to project stakeholders. • Provide daily status updates and trends to QA leadership, production and development teams. • Senior Quality Assurance Analyst is expected to be responsible for an entire game/scrum area.
Job Requirements
- A minimum of 1 years experience in a Quality Assurance role.
- At least one shipped product.
- Experience with QA process and testing terminology.
- Experience with either VR game testing, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and/or PS4/PS5 testing.
- Confident knowledge of business tools such as email, spreadsheets, word processors etc.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills across multiple audiences.
- Ability to work within a highly functional cross-discipline team.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
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