The Associate Quality Designer (AQD) will be an important part of our development process and meaningfully contribute to the quality of our games. You will demonstrate sound technical platform and game knowledge, have a strong quality mindset and effective partner relationship. The AQD will also be accountable for planning and managing test coverage on client and server releases, reporting on results, and confirming the success of a release.
Your Responsibilities
Quality Strategy and Test Planning
- Establish custom Live strategies on your project.
- Work with product owners to identify risks and plan testing for live releases.
- Build partnerships across geographically distributed teams.
- Design test plans, including scheduling, reporting, and execution.
Quality and Data Analysis
- Compile data from multiple sources into cohesive summaries to communicate status and risk
- Use different testing methodologies and analyze feature sets for automation opportunities (Risk-based Testing, Data/AI-driven testing, and more)
Collaboration and Communication
- Communicate status and risk through cohesive summaries
- Work closely with other Sonar locations to guide the test execution teams
- Be the communication bridge between various partner teams
- Provide technical, quantitative, and qualitative feedback
- Represent the Live QV perspective in meetings, ensuring quality standards are prioritized.
Mentorship and Team Support
- Lead improvements and knowledge sharing across teams
- Promote professional growth within the SONAR Live QV team
- Mentor and support team members in implementing quality strategies
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in software development, quality assurance, or game design
- Familiarity with automated testing and common automation tool sets
- Experience with defect and task tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail)
- Experience owning continuous improvement initiatives and executing from start to finish.
- Can create Test Strategies anchored in Defect prevention, containment, and early QA involvement.
- Provides actionable recommendations to enhance player satisfaction.
- Experience incorporating telemetry, data analytics, or AI/ML capabilities to enhance test insight and impact is a plus.
Skills
- Understand concepts of defect prevention and containment
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Translate project metrics into data-driven decisions and strategies
- Critical Thinking
- Mentoring & Coaching
- Information Analysis
- Influential Advocate
