Quality Assurance Engineer, Gram Games
Social mobile game developer
Job no longer available
Social mobile game developer
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To have fun, and to turn that fun into top-notch games played by hundreds of millions of players around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Good understanding of client/server testing and importance of metadata
- Familiarity with source control, such as GIT or SVN
- Has worked with development environments such as Xcode, Visual Studio, Android SDK, Unity etc
- Understanding of how software architecture influences the amount of testing required, including optimizing tests that utilize the same code paths. Ability to pair test features
- Adept at costing, time estimation, risk analysis, and root cause analysis
- Ability to carry out Telemetry testing
- Familiarity with iOS and Android operating systems and hardware
- Understanding of the SDLC and Change Management
- Aware of the defect metrics the QA team should be tracking to measure success
- Enthusiasm for learning new technical and QA skills
- Passion for gaming and a positive outlook
- Awareness of the mobile games market on iOS and Android
- Strong initiative and ability to pro-actively self-manage; always looking for new and better solutions to existing challenges
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, backed up with a proactive approach to knowledge sharing and best practise
- Experienced with agile methodologies
- Expert understanding of software QA and games development practices and terminology (ideally in relation to mobile games or live-supported games)
- Previous experience with bug databases, preferably JIRA
- Experience using a test management system, preferably TestRail
- Ideally worked within games as a service products, understands the concept of ‘Live QA’
What the job involves
- The QA Engineer has in-depth QA, technical and project expertise, and has full ownership of quality across designated game areas
- They will manage high priority features while ensuring timely delivery against production timescales and costs
- The QA Engineer divides their time between delegation of test plans to testers, and performing testing directly themselves
- Reports to: Lead QA Manager
- The QA Engineer contributes to a team of around 20 multidisciplinary members , and owns the test strategy for features of moderate complexity
- They’ll have experience being embedded within development teams, and a good understanding of how to deploy a range of test techniques to get their work tested
- Through coordinated planning and engagement with the wider Gram QA team, the QA Engineer can organise one or more small but experienced external vendor teams and use them effectively
- From bug triage to exploratory testing, you’ll know how and when to deploy different vendors, based on your test ownerships
- The QA Engineer communicates gracefully with both their multi-discipline development, and wider Gram QA teams, understanding when and how to engage each
- You’ll be able to write tests that yield clear results, provide useful data, answer investigative questions and then package the results into an easily digestible format for feature stakeholders
- While not necessarily aware of every cutting edge best practice, the QA Engineer has a sense and instinct for what ‘good’ game QA looks like, and can lean on past experiences to inform their decision making and test writing
- Being a member of the Gram QA team means you are wholly and genuinely passionate about what you spend your time doing
- We rely on individuals to own their personal time management, to constantly seek out work and learning opportunities, as opposed to waiting for them to come to you.If you’re going to do something, do it right!
- Execute functional tests in a grey box environment, developing understanding of game code and logic to push quality further up the development cycle
- Actively own test areas and ensure defects are entered. This will include taking on features which are technically or practically more challenging leading to higher risk
- Standard bearer for QA, representing discipline in planning, weekly meetings, daily scrums and other team Agile practices
- Solve complex problems in effective, efficient and resourceful ways. Ability to break problems down
- Promote cross-discipline knowledge sharing, e.g. work with code on how to best QA network traffic
- Ensures a positive, professional and collaborative team environment is maintained
- Works with outsource QA team to achieve best possible results, including creating documentation, mentoring where appropriate and fielding questions
- Flexibility in responding to business priorities
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 2012, Turkish-born Gram Games is a global mobile game company that has created popular games including 1010!, Six!, Merged!, and Bounzy! What started as an indie studio experiencing financial crisis has become a multi-million dollar business.
The turn occurred due to Gram’s unique and innovative approach to gaming, producing content with IAP-monetized opposed to ad-monetized hyper-casual titles, bringing a previously unseen depth compared to typical games of this kind. The company was acquired by game developer Zynga and exists as an independent studio within the company, thereby receiving the expertise and support from Zynga without sacrificing creative license.
Zynga was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2022 for a staggering $12.7 billion, the biggest acquisition in the history of the games industry. This acquisition, coupled with Gram Games’ change of CEO means that it will be interesting to see how the company develops new games and stories moving forward.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2015
$0.5m
SEED
Jan 2014
$0.6m
SEED
Total funding: $1.2m
Company benefits
- Private medical care
- Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
- Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
- Life insurance and a favourable pension scheme
- Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
- Yoga, massages, fitness classes
- Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!
Company HQ
Brackenbury Village, London, UK
Leadership
Kaan Karamanci
(Co-founder)Currently a Board Member for Karamanci Holding. Previously served as Senior Engineer for Sulia and as a Independent Software Engineer for Hunch.
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