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| Position: | Embedded Tester-Midlands-Contract |
| Employer: | OPM Recruitment Ltd |
| Category: | Localisation/QA |
| Location: | UK - Midlands |
| Salary: | DOE |
| Date posted: | Thursday, March 7th 2013 |
Description:
Embedded Tester
Midlands
Contract Position
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a studio that are crucial partners to game development teams, providing expert black box testing, automated testing and other technical approaches, data analysis and actionable reports.
This position requires the individual to integrate themselves, into the games development team, whilst keeping the focus on quality and maintaining their testing integrity. The successful applicant will be able to quickly build relationships and establish trust with development partners whilst balancing supporting the development team’s needs with completing testing tasks assigned to them. They should be a quality evangelist promoting early testing and bug resolution.
Key Skills
Component testing of early game features in partnership with the development team
Maintaining build stability by early capture of major issues and rapid escalation to the development team
Identifying risks and weakness in the development or integration of code and highlighting these to the development team and wider testing group
Ensuring the testability of code delivered to Black box testing by conducting build verification testing and/or analysing the results from automated smoke testing
Driving a ‘test early’ methodology within the development team, testing complex features before they are integrated into the main code base
Promoting quality early in the development cycle by highlighting issues and providing feedback
Essential Skills: Proven track record in games testing, demonstrated knowledge of software development processes and technical understanding of software/game elements, proven track record of testing until completion in a QA environment with at least 2 projects completed and shipped.
To apply please send a copy of your CV in Word format to officemanager@opmjobs.com
Natalie Whiting | QA & Localization Consultant
OPM Response Ltd
Direct Line: + 44 (0) 1206 214415 |
Email: Natalie@opmjobs.com |
Skype: natalie.whiting.opm
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/natalie-whiting/1b/a46/a14
Twitter: Natalie.Whiting.OPM
The salary bracket is approximate and is no guarantee of the income on offer. Salary and benefits will be discussed with candidates at interview with the company and are individually negotiated by OPM.
