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EA Vancouver is looking for a Quality Designer to join the EA Sports FC Gameplay Quality Verification team. This is an opportunity to develop new quality practices that aim to improve quality for the EA Sports FC product. If you love to play FC, and are passionate about football, then this is the role for you!

Expectations:

* You will have the end-to-end ownership of quality strategy for a single feature, or group of features.

* You will build working relationships with senior members of the development, production, and design teams. These relationships will help develop a higher quality player experience through tasks such as feature planning, analyzing internal and external data/player data, and feature/design reviews.

* You will collaborate with other Quality Designer peers to share best practices and continue to evolve our quality practices.

* Using an experimental mindset, you will proactively propose and provide solutions to quality problems.

* You will use change control processes to measure the impact of evolving quality strategies.

* You will research, analyze and compile data points spanning multiple sources into cohesive and consumable summaries that demonstrate impact to overall quality.

* You can take an overall strategy and propose tactical solutions to achieve that strategy.

* You are a mentor for peers, assisting with and growing their knowledge.

* You will always promote a "Player First" approach and be an advocate for the player in everything we do to help us achieve a high-quality experience for our players.

Requirements:

* The ability to play FC at a high level, understanding gameplay mechanics, exploits, game modes, and community feedback.

* A passion for the sport, understanding different tactics.

* 4+ years of applicable work experience.

* Experience with data analysis, or equivalent analytical experience.

* In-depth knowledge of software/game development, including both agile and waterfall methodologies.

* Work with medium-to-large-scale teams. Work with distributed peers.

* Experience with bug prevention and containment strategies.

* Defect and Task tracking tool experience (JIRA, DevTrack, TestRail, or Hansoft).

* Perforce or other collaboration tool experience a plus.

* Experience working within a continuous delivery or continuous deployment model.

* Some coding experience, or education, a plus.