Quality Assurance Lead

Hybrid
Disbelief

Who We Are: Disbelief is a game development studio focusing on contracting and consulting services. We’ve worked with both AAA and independent studios to help their projects ship. Notable projects we’ve worked on include Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Minecraft, Gears Tactics, Gears 5, and Spellbreak.

At Disbelief we value work-life balance, and want to create an alternative to the crunch-culture prevalent in game development. We also believe strongly in investing in our talent and our team. Disbelief is a place to puzzle out the solutions to cutting-edge problems for industry leading projects, but also a place where people can grow their careers and skills as valued members of a stable and close-knit team.

Description: We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Lead. This opportunity is for a full-time position in either our Cambridge, MA or Chicago, IL studio, with the ability to work a hybrid schedule of work from home and in office time. This is an opportunity to build a QA department from scratch while still performing hands-on testing. 

In your role, you will support our various internal teams’ development efforts, empowering them to deliver results that meet our and client quality standards. You will develop and execute test plans on Disbelief-produced ports and other milestone-based projects, hone reproduction cases for externally reported bugs, test internal projects, work on automated tests, manage contract and external QA, and otherwise support our dev teams with their testing needs.

The role will hire and develop testers to build out a QA team as the studio grows. You will interface with programmers, producers, artists, designers, and more both internally at Disbelief and externally with clients. You will have excellent communication skills and an ability to balance internal and client constraints vs. project needs. 

We work with leading edge technologies to make them perform at the top of their capabilities, and we take pride in solving problems others can’t. We believe a diverse team is a stronger team, and we encourage marginalized candidates to apply.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and execute test plans for Disbelief’s milestone-based projects

• Test and track platform requirements for console submission and other platform submission processes

• Work with internal devs to reproduce and refine externally reported bugs to accelerate progress fixing them

• Design and execute automated testing solutions where appropriate

• Manage and mentor future QA hires

• Interface with client QA

• Manage relationships with contract and external QA

Skills and Requirements:

• 5+ years of QA management experience

• 8+ years of testing experience

• Console testing experience

• Experience testing AAA projects

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written 

• Experience working on at least one shipped commercial project from start to finish

• Experience with JIRA and other bug tracking tools

• Experience with automated testing

• Strong time management skills

• Highly organized

• Strong problem solving skills

• A strong desire to enable others to do their best work

Location: Cambridge, MA or Chicago, IL

Relocation Assistance: Available where applicable

Remote: Hybrid. QA are in the office based on project needs, but can sometimes work from home. Some of our projects require access to physical infrastructure.

Visa Sponsorship: No. Disbelief does not offer visa sponsorship at the current time. 

We are an E-Verify employer.

Contact: Please submit resume to jobs+gamedeveloper@disbelief.com 

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