Quality Assurance Engineer – Core Game Loop

Title: Quality Assurance Engineer – Core Game Loop

Industry: Gaming / Entertainment

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Duration: 8 months with potential to extend

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for core game-loop features and connected player journeys, including functional, regression, exploratory, integration, and playtest coverage.
• Validate build, environment, account, and configuration readiness across clients, services, queues, gameplay transitions, milestones, and playtests.
• Triage defects, investigate complex issues, and communicate player impact, severity, status, quality risks, and recommended next steps.
• Collaborate with developers, producers, designers, QA leadership, and external QA teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Coordinate external QA execution, review test evidence and coverage gaps, support automation and workflow improvements, and contribute to release and live-service readiness.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software QA experience, including ownership or leadership of testing for a team, feature, or subsystem; experience with test planning, defect management, and risk analysis.
• Experience testing client or web interfaces, services, APIs, integrated systems, and interconnected player experiences; API testing with Postman, Swagger, SoapUI, or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience collaborating across Agile development teams and coordinating remote or external testers while evaluating testing effectiveness.
• Strong investigation, communication, organization, and follow-through skills, with familiarity with gaming systems, player onboarding, queue flows, and live-service or competitive gameplay.
• Familiarity with build and release processes, Perforce or Git, test automation, scripting, CI-integrated testing, SQL, performance or observability testing, and milestone or launch readiness; relevant testing certification is a plus.

Skills

• Software QA
• Game Testing
• Test Planning
• Regression Testing
• API Testing
• Defect Triage
• Playtesting
• Live-Service Games
• Test Automation
• Agile Development

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

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