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.
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 DoEpic Games is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to serve as a key quality owner within a cross-functional development strike team, focused on Shooter products. This role will partner closely with Designers, Engineers, and Producers to plan and execute test strategies, drive deep investigations, and develop tools or automation to elevate quality standards. The position emphasizes ownership of performance testing and data metrics, requiring a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and strong experience in QA best practices.
In this role, you will- Collaborate with Producers, and QA Management to define performance benchmarks, identify risk areas, and plan test coverage for upcoming features and releases
- Coordinate performance testing efforts across distributed teams, vendors, and partners to ensure high-quality, optimized player experiences across platforms, while also supporting smaller more technical features across the project
- Develop performance test strategies that incorporate automation, profiling tools, and stress/load scenarios to validate system responsiveness in a dynamic development environment.
- Ensure that game performance—frame rate, latency, load times, and overall stability—meets player expectations consistently across updates, while maintaining positive user experience for all features
- Leverage manual, technical, and automated testing skills to execute various performance, functional, and ad hoc testing techniques, including regression and scalability testing
- Analyze and troubleshoot issues using debugging tools, telemetry, logs, and profiling data to identify root causes and validate fixes
- Track, document, and report metrics to drive cross-functional discussions and support decisions around game health and optimization.
- 3+ years of software testing experience in fast-paced environments, covering both functional and performance requirements
- Gaming industry experience with game engines
- Strong understanding of QA processes, test methodologies, and agile/reactive development practices
- Familiarity with Python programming language; experience with C++ or C# for test scripting, tooling, or performance analysis is a plus
- Capable of testing performance, scalability, reliability, and integration with complex APIs
- Skilled in coordinating test efforts across geographically distributed teams, vendors, and agencies
- Experience in performance and scalability testing, including load simulation and bottleneck identification is a plus
- Experienced with a risk-based testing approach is ideal
- Familiar with tools like Jira, SmartSheets, G Suite, and able to track and report quality metrics to drive improvements is a plus
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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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.
