QA Engineer

Holotech Studios, Inc. is developing the next generation of amazing interactive avatar technology for smartphones and PCs. We've lengthy experience with our previous product, Facerig, that has enabled us to provide high quality avatars that have already been used by millions of people all over the world - including top YouTube and Twitch stars like PewDiePie, JackSepticEye, and GoodMythicalMorning. With innovation and constant development on our minds, we are moving forward with the Animaze integrated avatar communication products.

We are searching for a QA Engineer that wants to bring experience and knowledge gathered along the way and further develop good professional QA standards and grow on his/hers technical side, being part of a professional and fun tea

Ideal candidate 

• At least 2-3 years proven work experience as a QA engineer in Software Development or Game Development

• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English 

• Experience in working with Agile SCRUM style

• Previous experience working close with the Development team (embedded)

• Fundamental understanding of the game development lifecycle or software development life-cycle 

• Experience in different types of testing (functional, regression, system, sanity testing)

• Previous QA experience on gaming consoles, Android and iOS

Responsibilities 

• Identifying software issues 

• Communicate issues, risks and test status in a timely and detailed manner 

• Conduct root cause analysis against uncovered issues 

• Work closely with the QA Lead, Development teams and Product Owner to meet product requirements and release dates.

• Understand and Research for new quality assurance tools and technologies to improve the testing effort.

• Maintain and test a suite of smoke, functional and regression manual and automated test cases to evaluate product releases.

• Test new features and products in a development/test environment prior to deployment.

• Conduct performance, stress and scalability testing.

• Suggest improvements to current approaches for testing processes and methodologies.

• ISTQB (or equivalent) certification is a plus