Senior SDET

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.

What You'll Do

The Developer Experience and Efficiency Team within the Unreal Engine organization at Epic Games is responsible for improving the efficiency of any component of the developer experience in Unreal, Fortnite, and UEFN. From syncing to testing your project in-game, any impediment to efficiency is on the table, from short wins to long-term order-of-magnitude gains or paradigm shifts. As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you are a QA expert and developer who thrives and excels at delivering results at scale. Your primary role will be building testing and reporting tools, automation frameworks, and collaborating to identify areas suitable for automated testing. You will develop test framework features to enable developers and testers to author automated tests. We are looking for teammates who are passionate about upstream technical testing while developing tools, automation, and capacity engineering to raise the quality bar while advancing your technical capabilities and knowledge.

In this role, you will

• Own efforts to optimize and streamline existing automated test suites, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and efficient test execution
• Refactor and clean up existing test automation codebase to improve readability, maintainability, and scalability
• Design, develop, and maintain test tools and automation frameworks for our internal suite of developer tools. Develop, assess, and improve performance tests for various workflows, including editor and runtime performance
• Enhance and maintain dashboards (Tableau, Grafana, or Horde Analytics) to monitor key performance metrics
• Plan, design and implement complex test scenarios, including multi-user distributed automated testing
• Enable developers, testers, and analysts to author automation test scripts, implement automation best practices, and help lay the foundation of scalable automated test solutions
• Build relationships and partnerships with internal customers and stakeholders across Epic

What we're looking for

• Proven experience owning design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance of automated tests and frameworks. Experience with performance testing frameworks is a plus
• Experience creating intuitive and visually appealing dashboards to present complex data in a clear and actionable format. Experience with Tableau/Grafana is a plus
• Proficiency in scripting and object-oriented programming languages for test automation. Experience with C++, C# or Python is a big plus
• Good knowledge of how game engines work; Experience with either UE5/Unity or a custom internal game engine
• Experience with end-to-end, functional, and unit tests
• Experience working collaboratively with team members on a common codebase using version control tools (e.g., Perforce, Git)
• Knowledge or experience with build and test orchestration tools (e.g., Jenkins) and gameplay scripting systems are a plus
• Knowledge or experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) is a plus
• Games industry experience is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical