Electronic Arts

Job Description

Job Title: Software Engineer II

Company: Electronic Arts (EA)

Location: Hyderabad, India

Work Model: Hybrid

The QVS Mobile team at Electronic Arts builds and maintains the core automation frameworks, pipelines, and tools that empower mobile game development across EA studios. Our mission is to enable efficient, scalable, and reliable development by building robust automation systems and technical solutions that streamline validation, build processing, and delivery. We’re looking for a Software Engineer II with solid C# development skills and a strong interest in game development and automation frameworks. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys writing clean, maintainable code and wants to apply engineering skills to improve how mobile games are tested, validated, and shipped. You’ll collaborate with engineers across gameplay, build, and QA teams to deliver automation solutions that enhance speed and quality in production environments.

Role Overview:
EA’s Quality Engineering team is currently seeking a Software Engineer to join the QE effort. Experience the dynamic, creative, and challenging environment of mobile game development.

In this role, you will constantly push the envelope in quality and design through cutting-edge tools and automation. You will contribute to developing an automation framework, setting up an automation platform, building performance metrics pipelines and improving our automation environment. The goal would be to improve productivity through identifying and addressing bottlenecks in the QV workflow. 

This individual should have well-rounded programming skills, be capable of working on all portions of a technology stack and be able to independently assess and estimate tasks. The role requires a personality type that is outgoing, dynamic, enthusiastic and able to network successfully across many groups and individuals in both the development and quality verification domains to build and maintain excellent relationships and communications channels. 

Join a team where you make a direct impact on our games every day and are challenged and supported to grow and evolve as an engineer!  

Role Summary

• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks, tools, and systems supporting EA’s mobile projects. Examples specific to QV could be automated debug and regression testing systems(DART), automated triage and ticketing of issues, etc.

• Partner with development, build, and QA teams to expand automation capabilities and streamline mobile game workflows.

• Support automation pipelines, investigate issues, and ensure stability across projects.

• Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and process improvements within the automation team.

• Learn and actively participate in the evolution of EA’s mobile automation ecosystem.

Required Skills:

• 4 to 8 years of professional development experience, with at least one year in C++

• Strong Object-Oriented Programming fundamentals 

• A solid foundation in - 

  • Computer Science fundamentals 

  • Algorithms

  • Design patterns

  • Data Structures

  • Automation Testing

  • SDLC and STLC knowledge

  • C# Scripting

  • Javascript

  • Python Scripting

• Ability to identify automation opportunities, gaps in coverage and proactively introduce innovative automation strategies into the overall development processes.

• Monitor product quality Indicators throughout project duration to give a constant heartbeat on product quality

• Able to demonstrate strong ownership, solid drive to complete communicated objectives.

• Ability to build and maintain an effective working relationship with stakeholders, monitor requirements and proactively provide suggestions on processes that present room for improvement

• Excellent written, verbal communication skills and ability to work with a large, cross-functional, and distributed team.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer/Software Engineering, Computer Science or related concentration, equivalent and/or combination of education.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with iOS and Android software development.

• CI/CD Processes

• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git, Perforce) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub Actions)

• We are increasingly seeing use cases where AI has been used to do things like author automated tests, perform AI-assisted incident response, AI-assisted issue triaging, AI-assisted fault tracing etc. Any prior experience with this kind of AI implementation is an added benefit

• Experience developing automated tests that focus on performance scenarios, generating metrics to help evaluate game performance and evaluating metrics to spot performance issues

• Ability to work with minimal supervision 

Scope and Impact:

• Work with development and quality verification teams in an Agile Scrum environment to design, develop, deliver, own and improve reliable and robust tools and platforms

• Own, extend and maintain automation frameworks, tools, and processes used across studios

• Profile games and tools to enable automation and the collection of runtime metrics

• Coordination with offsite teams on delivering automation results, from implementation to execution

• Design and deliver new tools to support development and quality verification goals

Nice to Have: 

• We are increasingly seeing use cases where AI has been used to do things like author automated tests, perform AI-assisted incident response, AI-assisted issue triaging, AI-assisted fault tracing etc. Any prior experience with this kind of AI implementation is an added benefit

• Experience with game engines

About EA

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers.

We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more.

Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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