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Lockwood Publishing
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Dev QA Tester
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Job Description
We are looking for an individual eager to provide support for our Development and Production Teams by ensuring all changes submitted to the game are functional and to the expected quality level. Help ensure exciting, functional content is delivered to an engaged, player base. Other responsibilities for the role will include maintaining terminology databases/glossaries for game content. Creating Checklists & Test-Cases as well as driving qualities with in-depth understanding of software design, implementation and integration. Key Responsibilities * Working with game team Software Engineers, Artists and Production team to eliminate issues before change lists integration and to validate that features have reached the targeted quality levels; * Compile trackers and reports for regression, checklists and coverage; * Proactively pick up testing requests from the development, art and management teams; * Create in-depth action plans and summaries for testing requests from the development, art and management teams; * Analyze the information provided by the development, art and management teams and be able to identify risk areas; * Find and enter high-quality issues based on department standards and perform edge case scenario tests to ensure fixes have no knock-on effects; * Verify pre-integration change lists for issue fixing, feature changes or tuning; * Responsible for a some specific areas of the game which includes: - Act as first point of contact about the current state of the game area - Test-Plan creation - Test-Case creation - Initiate conversations with development, art and management team members involved in in the specific area of the game - Interface with other in-house QA, the Outsourced QA Team & development, art and management team members involved in the specific area of the game on a daily basis - Create edge case test scenarios and assess potential knock-on issues - Organise and review testing by other in-house and/or outsoured testers - Occasional support for the Content Team on testing Live Operations events and dynamic changes in a live game environment - Environments, furniture and clothing items from an asset and functional POV Requirements * At least one year experience in a QA position on either Mobile or Console; * Experience in Graphics & Hardware Testing and Benchmarking. Desirably on mobile devices; * Knowledge of Lua programming language; * Experience in Performance Testing such as identifying and differentiating between GPU and CPU bottlenecks; * Previous experience working in the games industry; * Strong ability to work under pressure and to meet given deadlines; * Python experience; * Good communication skills and able to work as part of a team; * Interest and knowledge of mobile platforms (Amazon, Google Play, Apple); * Keen eye for detail; * Previous experience with black-box testing; * Previous experience with issue tracking databases (JIRA, Hansoft, DevTrack, Mantis etc.); * Good troubleshooting skills. Desirable * Previous Quality Assurance experience with Freemium mobile games; * Previous Quality Assurance experience in testing social mobile games; * Passionate and experienced social mobile games player; * Has the testing knowledge to provide constructive feedback to address challenges that come up within the project; * Experience with platform specific (Apple, Google Play, Amazon) Certification testing; * Experience with creating Test-Cases, Action Plans for testing and Checklists. Benefits * Profit share bonus scheme, Share Scheme * Life Insurance, Healthcare Cash Plan, Income Protection * Flexible working hours * Quarterly staff socials * Enhanced pension scheme * Flexible 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) * Bike to Work scheme & other benefits Lockwood Publishing is one of the leading independent UK mobile games companies. Our most successful product to date is a 3D virtual world on mobile called Avakin Life. We want to hear from talented and passionate developers who can help us implement our incredibly exciting and ambitious road-map. As part of the team at Lockwood, you will enjoy a creative, challenging and collaborative environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your design expertise. Our working environment is extremely open, and all team members have complete access to any metrics they wish. We hold regular company-wide briefings to ensure team members and departments are aware of the direct impact their efforts have on the progress of the project. Best of all, because we believe team members deserve more than a pat on the back for their effort, we offer a bonus scheme that pays out 50% of any increase in record quarterly profits directly to the team.