QA Engineer III

Title: QA Engineer III

Industry: Gaming

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Duration: 9 months

Responsibilities

• Own compatibility test strategy, planning, execution, reporting, and release readiness for major game initiatives and releases.
• Develop risk-based coverage across PC hardware, operating systems, drivers, peripherals, displays, input devices, graphics settings, and performance tiers; execute functional, regression, exploratory, installation, update, configuration, performance, and recovery testing.
• Investigate complex compatibility issues and communicate severity, player impact, reproducibility, risks, and mitigation options.
• Partner with Engineering, Platform, and Player Support teams to improve diagnostics, crash and performance analysis, testability, automation, telemetry, and compatibility metrics.
• Coordinate internal, remote, and external QA resources; mentor junior QA team members and contribute to QA standards, reusable test assets, and process improvements.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software QA experience, including leadership of QA efforts for complex products, features, or live-service releases.
• Experience with compatibility, systems, hardware, client, or platform testing, preferably for live-service PC games with frequent releases and diverse hardware configurations.
• Strong understanding of risk-based test planning and coverage strategies, including platform certification, device labs, hardware compatibility, driver validation, peripheral testing, performance tools, telemetry, test automation, or CI validation.
• Experience troubleshooting hardware, operating system, driver, peripheral, graphics, input, performance, crash, or recovery issues; experience mentoring QA engineers or developing QA standards and tooling is preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and collaborate across disciplines; ISTQB, ICAgile, or comparable certification is preferred.

Skills

• Compatibility Testing
• Risk-Based Testing
• PC Gaming QA
• Hardware Testing
• Regression Testing
• Performance Testing
• Crash Analysis
• Test Automation
• CI Validation
• QA Leadership

Hourly rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.

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