Senior QA Engineer

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.

Epic 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.

• 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

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including CA & WA).

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).