Senior QA Analyst

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At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition.

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Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level.

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Position Overview:

You will be responsible for raising the quality bar higher by feeding back and refining processes for the test team, guide more junior members and/or vendor teams towards a higher degree of efficiency and execution. You will also lead multiple features at a time while ensuring timely delivery against production timescales and costs. You have the ability to check out and build a codebase, identify similar code paths to achieve pair testing, and understand the use of metadata in mobile games.

What You'll Do:

• Drives improvements to QA development tools such as the debug menu or crash capturing.
• Takes on delegation from QA Leadership e.g. onboarding of new QA Analysts, chairs weekly meet, test case management, test case reviews, release test ownership, outsource management.
• Maintain and update test strategies, regression plans, cross-feature plans etc built by other members of the team.
• Can manage self and several other QA testers
• Can apply advanced knowledge of testing to make testing more efficient e.g. test matrices for compatibility.
• Is aware of test design methods like state tables that allow QA to break features down into their core components.
• Understands the coverage automated testing gives (if implemented) and adjusts manual testing appropriately.
• Can analyze performance data to find and report issues and critically analyze risks and testing required to mitigate them.
• Understands different types of users and can adapt their user acceptance tests to cover all scenarios.
• Understanding of client and server testing, including server validation, mobile DLC, and experiments/ events.
• Ability to use profiling tools like xcode, GameBench or built-in debug. Can generate reports from these tools.
• Proficiency in Python or any other scripting language for automation and process optimization.
• Experience with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline automation, including job configuration and pipeline scripting.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience in automating build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Knowledge of SQL for querying databases, data validation, and troubleshooting application issues.
• Ability to take on features or game areas, which are technically more challenging e.g. profile syncing, metadata, or time-gated features.
• Champions solutions to problems, good enthusiastic attitude.
• Drives knowledge sharing in the team and ensures the team has no gaps in skill coverage.
• Does not get sidetracked by things outside their control, has focus.
• Understanding of and/or experience with ad networks is a plus

What You Bring:

• Experience in the gaming industry
• Ability to write pseudo code, which will allow the Senior QA Analysts to find edge cases.
• ASTQB qualified.
• Understands how software architecture influences the amount of testing needed, including optimizing tests that utilize the same code paths.
• Has experience in using device farms e.g. AWS or testdroid.

What we offer you:

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits

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