Electronic Arts

The Software Engineer role within EA Sports Quality Verification Engineering (QVE) department collaborates with EA’s QA and Development teams to create tools, automation solutions, scripts, and technical strategies with the goals of improving game infrastructure and increasing efficiencies in the game delivery process. 

You will play an important part in ensuring a seamless consumer experience by focusing on upstream quality and targeting defect prevention and containment. You will report to a Development Director, and help analyze testing strategies, identify new testing technologies, and develop new tools for testing and tracking purposes. 

This is a hybrid role based in our Vancouver offices.

Responsibilities:

• You will work with Dev and QA partners to identify areas of improvement through new tools and automation strategies. 

• You will design, develop, and deploy internal software tools. 

• Build, test, and deploy solutions that support automation deliverables. 

• Support an increased adoption of automation and tools within game teams. Aid in the identification and requirements gathering for new tools. 

• Identify and recommend debug and telemetry enhancements to aid testing. 

• Provide debug support and technical expertise to other engineers on our teams. 

• Participate in knowledge-sharing sessions to increase knowledge of existing tools, automation and testing processes. 

• Perform risk analysis of new features – identify impact and scope. 

• Help prioritize bug fixing efforts and identifying areas of test focus. 

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Test Driven Development techniques (TDD). 

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins).

• Familiarity with C++ and Python. 

• Understanding of software development life cycle, software engineering methodologies and practices, and software quality assurance concepts.