Game QA Compliance Tester

Title: Game QA Compliance Tester (Functionality Certification Testing)
Hours: Monday – Friday, Business Hours
Have you ever wanted to play video games for a living? Are you looking to work with other passionate gamers?

Overview

As one of our Game QA Compliance Testers, your primary responsibility will be providing all game titles with compliance testing, consultancy and testing support. You will ensure projects are developing with compliance in mind to meet the desired levels of quality during development prior to the games submission for certification. As part of the console compliance certification process, games are tested by console manufacturers to ensure every facet of the game (in-game text, instruction manuals, etc.) fully adheres to their strict requirements, standards, and naming conventions. You will act as subject matter expert to mitigate risk and identify issues before projects and content are released.

Our global QA department tests various genres of games, learning and analysing all elements of the title’s functionality – including gameplay, UI, hardware interaction and messaging, checking title functionality against various manufacturer-specified guidelines, finding and reporting scenarios where these guidelines are not closely adhered to, and identifying and prioritising issues for progression through the project life cycle.

Our job is to ensure superior game quality, bug free games, make suggestions towards game design, ensuring a comprehensive end user experience and that there is a robust and comprehensive testing process is in place for all of our clients games.

Our Game QA team perform functionality and compliance checks on a range of yet-to-be-released games for a variety of platforms including PC, Xbox One, PS5, Wii, PS Vita, DS, Switch, VR and various mobile and tablet devices. You would be working on top gaming titles for some of the world's leading AAA publishers.

What you’ll be doing

• Checking title functionality against compliance test cases and - where required - performing focused sweeps, ensuring platform technical requirements are adhered to and raising issues where they are not.
  
• Thoroughly test all submissions to ensure compliance with the technical requirements for many platforms.
  
• Raising issues with test procedure and processes to Project Lead and Coordinators, offering solutions where applicable.
  
• Producing manual functionality reports, to ensure that they are correct against submitted game code
  
• Bug Testing - ensuring all bugs are identified and thoroughly investigated, ensuring all bug information is accurately recorded
  
• Checking existing bugs against newer versions of code and complete allocated work within given timeframes
  
• Providing accurate progress updates, ensuring all relevant GQA procedures are followed
  
• Accurate, detailed and complete reporting and subsequent revision of those errors or problems.
• Understand and facilitate correct and relevant movement of information, including escalating serious issues and passing requests to leads for external communication / action.
• Keeping up to date with the latest compliance documentation for your assigned platform(s) and applying this knowledge to your tests.
• Stay abreast of communications and fix progression on important compliance issues on the assigned platform(s).
• Provide assistance and support on compliance issues for other assigned platforms as needed.
• Executes assigned tests accurately and sufficiently to have confidence in documented results.
• Reports results in a clear and concise manner into a bug database.
• Regresses assigned issues and validates that the issues have been addressed correctly.
• Escalates any issues preventing/impacting test execution.
• Provides feedback regarding test approach and test case improvement
• Keep up to date with all platforms and their requirements to ensure continued finding and reproducing of errors or problems in game.
• Any other tasks associated with GQA Compliance Testing.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

• Ideally 6+ months experience in console compliance testing across multiple platforms.
• Strong knowledge and interpretation of compliance documentation and technical requirements, applying this accurately and consistently throughout all tasks and checks.
• Display excellent attention to detail, maintaining diligence and focus for extended periods - be methodical and analytical, displaying excellent problem identification and investigative skills
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication in English with the ability to cope under pressure.