Quality Designer

**Quality Designer** (Apex Legends Mobile)

Respawn Entertainment is an Oscar-winning AAA video game development studio that aspires to create new hit games that leave a lasting impact on gamers worldwide. Our work includes the critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends and Titanfall franchise.

We developed the Star Wars action-adventure game Jedi: Fallen Order, virtual reality game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond and are continuing development for our live free-to-play game, Apex Legends.

We're looking for an accomplished professional to join 'Apex Legends Mobile' as a Quality Designer. We are looking for someone who is passionate about making high-quality great games in a collaborative environment with a team of experienced professionals. This includes collaboration with the QA Development Managers to satisfy schedules of test coverage and project metrics.

We're picturing someone who is experienced in mobile game development, passionate and eager about quality and uses data to protect the player experience. They will work embedded within the team, improve QA practice across EA, have a Quality mindset from a consumer perspective, and be a advocate in game design and implementation decisions.

If this sounds like you, we look forward to seeing your resume

**Quality Designers** are the owners for a product or major service/feature. Focused on ensuring project deliverables are being completed on time through active participation in test responsibilities and processes while maintaining EA's high standard of end-to-end quality. They will use data for planning and guide the building of dashboards to inform project metrics. Additionally, they will focus on improving the operational effectiveness of the QA effort by assessing current quality assurance practices and incorporating new QA strategies and helping departmental projects.

Understand metrics to inform and guide project health while engaging in daily test routines and responsibilities. Monitoring performance and delivering measurable feedback as part of daily test routines. Establishing working relationships within the QA department, the QA project team, internal development and engineering teams and the outside collaborators are important to success in this role.

**Responsibilities**

Your primary responsibilities expected are as follows:

- Prioritize the end-user, ensuring that feedback is delivered with the community in mind while still accounting for development constraints such as timelines and budgets
- Build test cases, plans and suites, defect tracking, and regression tests
- Skill and knowledge in mobile compliance requirements and hardware platform
- Analyze and perform game design feedback, test case design modification, and reviews at both a requirements level and product build level producing reports at a rhythm necessary to support product
- Drive quality upstream and advocating best practices to achieve this
- Produce and present reports to your team using data that represent product quality Indicators
- Provide expert testing for game features and development tools.
- Provide in-depth team support, working closely with members of Production and Development to align daily priorities.
- Utilize data and research into reporting and building test strategy.
- Fully own assigned game areas from a QA perspective supporting the group from pre-production through launch.
- Develop in-depth understanding of the systems under their ownership and communicate progress, status and risks. Requires a deep understanding of system architecture and implementation.
- Be the voice of quality for the product by providing design feedback prior to integration from a technical and end-user perspective.
- Propose and define long-term strategic collaboration structures which impact and/or influence multiple areas of the business.
- Create and drive team process changes and improvements backed by data-driven decisions
- Rally support from both the QA and development teams for process improvements.
- Identify risks and dependencies, develop plans to mitigate and reduce such risks, and actively execute on these plans
- Qualitative feedback on features with issues of usability and generally, be the voice of quality for the product
- Develop and Implement Quality metrics and scorecards. Prepare and present Quality KPI reports.
- Utilizes Quality tools and techniques e.g. RCA / Continuous improvement
- Provides support on utilization and development of knowledge on Quality methods and tools
- Interface and communicate with different teams within the organization on quality issues.
- Assure compliance to in-house and/or external specifications and standards
- Continuously monitors document Quality during the case lifecycle
- Promote Quality competence training and development

**Experience**

You will speak to the following levels of experience:

- 8+ years previous QA experience/ in software development environment
- Strong communication and collaboratio