At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
QUALITY ASSURANCEWhat We Do
The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.
What You'll Do
Epic Games is looking to significantly expand its internal full-time Quality Assurance team. We are looking for serious QA professionals with wide ranging skills and experience who want to work embedded on a development team. This position owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of a given feature, function or set of work, where you will be part of a rapidly iterating development team working closely with professional and highly technical developers. If you're excited about working in a fast-paced environment and are highly motivated to ensure the best possible user experience, then we'd like to speak with you!
In this role, you will
- Create test strategies and and address technical gaps for multiple features in a dynamic, fast-paced environment across a distributed team to deliver the highest quality product utilizing a mix of manual and technical testing skills
- Work with product owners, developers and QA management to define and identify requirements and acceptance criteria, anticipate risks, and plan testing coverage for upcoming and existing features/releases
- Report and track for feature status and quality on delivery, and use that data to drive conversations around risk, product quality and development health
- Develop and implement automated test cases and debug issues across clients and hardware to ensure comprehensive impact analysis
- Generate analysis of outstanding defects, recommend new testing areas, and prioritize fixes
- Report and track data quality to drive discussions around product quality and development health, support developers before, during, and after deployments, and manage incoming defects autonomously
- Identify QA craft, development or testing problems and develop solutions to address these problems with semi permanent solutions
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of software testing experience in a fast-paced gaming environment
- Programming or scripting skills such as C++/C#/Python/Javascript
- Problem solving experience especially in technical environments utilizing debugging tools and IDEs (Visual Studio, XCode, etc.) to investigate and report on results
- Ability to prioritize and execute while working in a fast-paced working environment with the ability to juggle multiple projects
- Ability to confidently collaborate with senior members on technical topics and features
- Ability to assess scope and requirements and help drive project timeline/milestones/plans
- Must have a strong background in reporting and tracking for data quality
- Technical understanding of web, mobile, XR, or game technologies, including automation,functional, qualitative, and performance against consistently iterative development and cross functional feature development
- Background in games, entertainment, or a rapidly evolving tech industry is required
Nice to have skills
- Experience with Unreal Engine and Blueprints
- Prior experience with audio software
- Musical background
- Experience playing or working on rhythm-based games
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.
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What We Do
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.
