Senior QA Technician - Contract

Playground Games Limited; Royal Leamington Spa; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game studio in the UK seeks a Senior QA Technician to join the Fable team on a contract basis. This role involves validating game builds, testing new features, and ensuring high-quality standards. Candidates should have experience in QA roles, excellent communication skills, and a passion for gaming. The position offers a hybrid work model with a minimum of 3 days in the studio and assistance with relocation if needed. Join a talented team dedicated to creating exceptional games.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a Senior QA Technician or equivalent position on at least one published AAA console title for a FULL development cycle.
• A good understanding of the game development process.

Responsibilities

• Validate new game builds.
• Test new features ensuring the highest possible standard.
• Liaise with developers to keep up to date with game design.
• Take full QA ownership of multiple areas of the game.
• Write and maintain test plans to support the development team.
• Manage and maintain the bug database.

Skills

Attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Bug tracking management

Job description

Playground Games is looking for a Senior QA Technician to join our Fable team on a contract basis.

About us:

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.

About the role:

As Senior QA Technician you will be working with the Quality Assurance team to deliver high-level deliverables. You will use your experience, observation skills and clear communication to help ensure that all work is bug free and of the highest possible quality.

Our ideal candidate is an experienced QA Technician who is passionate about games, has excellent communication skills and a keen eye for detail.

This is a contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.

What you’ll do:

• Validate new game builds
• Test new features as they appear in game, ensuring all work is to the highest possible standard and resolve regressions with the development team
• Liaise with developers to ensure that you keep up to date with the current game design and functionality, as well as sharing this information in a clear and concise manner with an external test team to facilitate their testing of the title
• Take full QA ownership of multiple areas of the game
• Write and maintain test plans to support the development team in achieving project goals
• Manage and maintain the bug database for your areas of responsibility

What you’ll bring:

• Experience working in a Senior QA Technician or equivalent position on at least one published AAA console title for a FULL development cycle
• A good understanding of the game development process

This is a fantastic to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.