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Get a job: Join Heart Machine as a Quality Assurance Manager

Your responsibility will be to organize and track the team’s QA process, including playtesting feedback, bug tracking, localization & platform certification.

May 14, 2020

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QA Manager, Heart Machine

Location: Culver City, California

We’re looking for a QA Manager who has a passion for shipping games and an eye for detail. Your responsibility will be to organize and track the team’s QA process, including playtesting feedback, bug tracking, localization & platform certification.

We’re looking for someone who can catch and address problems quickly and effectively, can communicate with anyone on the team to get results, and has a deep understanding of our production process. Come help us build better things!

Your Role

  • Consistently playtesting our levels and helping keep builds updated and maintained

  • Organizing external playtests and tracking resulting bugs and feedback

  • Working with remote QA teams and managing bug-tracking software

  • Managing & tracking localization & platform certification tasks

  • Communicating with project leads to address the QA task backlog

  • Creating and managing tasks while also identifying, tracking and addressing risks

  • Work with the publisher to ship the game on multiple platforms

Requirements

  • Experience with bug-tracking systems (such as DevTrack, JIRA or BugZilla)

  • Experience shipping at least one game on PC and/or console

  • Experience with localization & platform cert processes

  • Previous QA experience on games - at least 2 years on PC or console

  • Experience with milestone tracking

  • Knowledge and familiarity with Agile and Scrum development framework

  • Strong reading, writing and spelling skills

  • Strong technical aptitude

  • A passion for games - third person action and platformer games particularly

  • Ample experience with current generation of gaming consoles

  • Excellent organizational skills

  • Independently motivated

  • Excellent communication skills and assertive attitude

  • Authorized to work in the US

  • Currently local to the Los Angeles area, or willing relocate

Bonus

  • QA experience in a large team environment

  • Any additional and related skills in games (illustration, modeling, writing, production)

  • Experience with Unreal 4

Interested? Apply now.

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