QA Lead Job in Austin, Texas Us
Playdom is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Lead to join our game team in the new Austin, Texas Studio. Our ideal candidate is someone who has successful experience in the gaming or web world shipping complex products. You will have a strong influence on our overall product development process, from start to finish. Big plus if you have experience working on original IP, characters, and worlds with mass appeal. You must also love to iterate and launch at rapid cycles, while instantly getting feedback from millions of super active (and often obsessive) users!
• Driving the quality assurance on our game titles
• Coordinate initial and ongoing training of testing outsourcing vendor(s)
• Setting up the systems that ensure accurate, up-to-date test plans for all new development
• Manages all outsourced testing vendor(s)
• Collaborate with game team to provide feedback on game design and development process
• Evangelizes the value of quality within and beyond the team
• Demonstrated expertise leading a quality assurance team, championing software quality processes
• Proven quality assurance skills (testing, test plan creation/maintenance, logic, test patterns)
• Proven experience working with a remote, outsourced testing team
• Expert knowledge of office suite tools and other relevant computer tools
• Expertise with current quality assurance technologies, workflow, and techniques for web deployment
• 7+ years quality assurance experience
• 3-5 quality assurance supervisory experience
• Strong communicator who loves the iterative technical and creative process
• Must embrace teamwork and be an excellent collaborator, as well as solve problems independently
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly (experience touching lots of different technologies)
• Eager to roll up your sleeves to make contributions outside of your specialty
• High integrity, strong organization skills and the ability to estimate/deliver on those estimates
• Ability to travel overseas 25% of the time
• Traditional game quality assurance experience
• Web development quality assurance experience
• A strong understanding of the limitations and opportunities of multiplayer Flash web games
• Avid user of games on social networks and experience working with MMO's or multi-player web games
• Experience with Lua
• Experience with Flash
• Experience with Test Rail and Jira
• Traditional game quality assurance experience
• Web development quality assurance experience
• A strong understanding of the limitations and opportunities of multiplayer Flash web games
• Avid user of games on social networks and experience working with MMO's or multi-player web games
• Experience with Lua
• Experience with Flash
• Experience with Test Rail and Jira
To expedite consideration, we highly recommend that you BOTH upload your resume AND copy and paste the text when creating your candidate profile.
This position is with the legal entity Disney Interactive Media Group
BUSINESS UNIT OVERVIEW -- Playdom produces a diverse portfolio of casual games for the rapidly growing platform of social networks, including Facebook and MySpace. With over 47 million monthly users and #1 rated games, Playdom is one of the fastest-growing social game developers, offering high quality community entertainment experiences.
COMPANY OVERVIEW -- Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), the interactive entertainment affiliate of The Walt Disney Company, creates immersive, connected, interactive experiences across console, online, mobile and social network platforms to entertain and inform audiences around the globe. DIMG's mission is to deliver Disney content to fans, whenever and wherever they want it, through numerous interactive media platforms.
Disney Interactive Media Group operates five global product groups: Disney Interactive Studios produces console and handheld video games for the Nintendo Wii™, Nintendo DS™, PlayStation®Portable, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment systems, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and the personal computer; Disney Online produces Disney.com and a portfolio of leading lifestyle websites for families, including Family.com; Disney Online Studios develops online virtual worlds, providing connected game-play experiences for children around the globe; Disney Mobile brings the best of Disney content to the mobile web, smart phone applications, and mobile games; in addition, DIMG manages a Disney-branded mobile phone service in Japan in association with Softbank; and Playdom produces best-in-class content for the rapidly growing platform of casual games on emerging platforms and social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.
All five product groups work together to create a variety of connected, multi-platform entertainment experiences.
If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=1307168-1789-2672