Electronic Arts

Role Overview 

Quality Designers specialize in key domains of the QA process. Depending on the domain of specialty will work embedded within the Development organization or on a central/shared group, drive continuous improvement of the QA practice across EA and actively knowledge share across the organization, have a strong Quality from a consumer perspective, strong advocate and influencer in game design and implementation decisions.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive quality verification efforts by providing technical and strategic direction based on collaboration with various disciplines.
• Own overall Test Strategy for the game, and test planning for each pack release.
• Partner with QV DD/DMs on game area releases QV execution, Live Pods support etc, for meeting overall quality targets.
• Drive initiatives like Risk Based Testing, Data/AI-driven testing, etc.
• Partner with game development on Product roadmap, Feature readiness and Quality Targets.
• Own the Quality Engineering engagement and drive automation, tools & tech evaluation and adoption.
• Network with Quality Designers in QVS across locations for sharing and learning practices.

Skills Required 

• Test Strategy & planning, for the pack releases including various types of testing based on data driven approach and RBT
• Test Execution & Implementation, with the ability to provide effective test coverage and find issues early in the cycle
• Research & Analysis, involving evaluation and anticipation of gaps in the testing process and analysis & use of test data for highlighting risks & impact.
• Reporting & insight, with the ability to validate reports and KPIs/metrics at the product level.
• Problem solving & Risk Assessing, with the approach of finding permanent solutions and averting risks in the future
• Tech implementation - driving tech changes including ability to identify scope, priority and role of automation.
• Project Management for planning and execution of test strategy and tasks using Scrum/agile process is nice to have.
• Proactive Decision making.
• Great Collaboration skills, Excellent verbal & written Communication.

Qualification: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 8+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, test planning and execution.
• Has strong understanding of quality assurance techniques, testing, and various test methodologies and processes.
• The successful candidate should have achieved results like, Led the QA team for product development and have created end-to-end test strategy.
• Successfully executed the test plans through various stages/gates of the product
• development, final release and live releases/service.
• Dealt with complexity and size of the quality verification process, including change
• management without impacting the quality goals.
• Leveraged tools, tech, automation and data for test efficiency and optimization year over year.
• Successfully evaluated and adopted latest and best practices from other business units or the industry.