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CCP Games (Fenris Creations) is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to join an EVE Online gameplay team. In this role, you will guide quality assurance from early design through release and live monitoring, working closely with design, engineering, and production teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the team's test approach, maintaining test plans, cases, regression coverage, and supporting documentation
- Perform hands-on testing of gameplay features, mechanics, and interactions from design through release
- Assess quality risks, estimate testing effort, and partner with producers to ensure adequate testing time and coverage
- Coordinate testing across the development team and outsourced testers, providing clear priorities and feedback
- Drive collaboration across teams and encourage shared ownership of quality
- Manage defects through triage, investigation, prioritization, and verification to support informed release decisions
- Review player bug reports, external issue lists, and forum discussions to identify issues within your domain
- Coordinate deployment testing and post-release verification, communicating results and outstanding risks
- Ensure coverage across PC and Mac platforms, including performance and regression testing
- Monitor code, asset, and data changes; coordinate access to test environments and tools
- Improve testing practices and identify automation opportunities
- Serve as an advocate for players, contributing to design discussions and providing actionable feedback on gameplay and usability
The role is based in Reykjavík with a hybrid work arrangement, reporting to Rohana Razak. CCP Games offers a multicultural work environment, double workstation setup, flexible work arrangements, relocation package, on-site doctor, annual sports grant, mobile phone with usage package, home internet, and a conditional transportation grant.
Requirements:
- At least 5 years of software or game testing experience, including coordinating with outsourced testers
- Thorough understanding of development processes and testing throughout the project lifecycle
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate game mechanics, controls, interfaces, player feedback, rules, and rewards
- Strong troubleshooting skills with ability to reproduce, isolate, and clearly document defects
- Ability to prioritize testing based on risk and communicate quality concerns clearly
- Excellent written and spoken English with strong collaboration skills
- Organized, methodical, and proactive approach combined with curiosity and creative problem-solving
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with scripting, Python, or other programming languages
- Experience with test automation
- Experience in hybrid development environments
- Knowledge of EVE Online or experience testing complex multiplayer gameplay systems
