Quality Verification Specialist

As a Quality Verification Specialist, you will be responsible for Quality Verification on our Portfolio projects, ensuring test analysis, test planning and execution is conducted to the highest level.

You will be involved in high-profile and challenging projects, ensuring that we successfully deliver new games or updates consistently. You will work closely with Game Operations and Central Studio Quality to understand our portfolio projects and prepare a testing approach, you will task teams of testers to execute our verification tests, provide a review and analysis of the results and give detailed feedback and evaluation of a project’s quality.

The Quality Verification Specialist is expected to have the ability to learn and understand the nuances of a project to design or adapt verification testing, building test plans to suit. They will need to direct team’s testing and be able to perform hands-on testing when necessary and make sense of the results

What you'll be doing:

• Design, review and improve test cases and test plans to verify quality of specific products as directed by the Quality Delivery Manager.
• Consider and plan necessary resourcing to execute any testing needed for functional and non-functional Quality Verification on projects you are tasked with.
• Analyse and understand the games you work on, and understand how to adapt our quality requirements to perform testing.
• Execute functional tests in appropriate development environments depending on the stage of the project.
• Understand and plan for non-functional testing, such as Performance and Compatibility.
• Document test coverage through detailed test plans and schedules.
• Provide appropriate reporting and feedback to different stakeholders focusing on both details and key findings.
• Communicate requirements, feedback, scheduling and other matters with the right degree of detail.
• Work closely with development teams to provide them with appropriate feedback on the quality and ensure it can be addressed.
• Provide advice to developers to make their work more testable.
• Work with outsourcing QA teams to achieve the best possible result, including creating documentation, mentoring where appropriate.
• Provide reporting of test effort, results, and risks, from both manual and automated tests

What we're looking for:

• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in formal software testing or video games testing.
• Familiarity with source control, such as GIT or Perforce.
• Experience with build software, such as Jenkins or Bamboo.
• Knowledge of console, mobile and desktop ecosystems (e.g. PlayStation, Steam, Google Play Store etc.)
• Familiarity with Review and Compliance processes for different console and mobile platforms.
• Experience working with external teams and QA vendors, directing outsource testing and collaborating with different development and test teams.
• Experience with risk-based testing.
• Ability to carry out risk assessments and professionally communicate these back to the team.
• Ability to work from technical tasks and translate them into actionable test cases.
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of different testing methodologies and agile development. Adept at costing, time estimation, and root cause analysis.
• Can interpret crash logs from multiple platforms, e.g. Xbox, PlayStation, Windows, iOS etc.
• Ability to effectively perform destructive and exploratory testing without test case guidance with an eye for detail.

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• £75 Monthly Energy Allowance (Paid on top of your salary)
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Applicants must live within a commutable distance to our office in Cambridge as there may be requirements for you to work from the office when required.

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise.
If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.