Software Test Engineer 2

Overview

This is a hybrid role in Vancouver.
Pay Range: C$31/hr – C$33/hr​

Join a world-renowned leader in interactive entertainment, where innovation meets creativity to deliver captivating digital experiences enjoyed by millions globally. We are seeking a passionate and meticulous individual to play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and integrity of our next-generation titles. In this dynamic position, you will be instrumental in the early stages of development, acting as a crucial bridge between our development and quality assurance teams, directly impacting the polished experience our players receive. Your expertise will shape the foundational quality of our games, contributing to the immersive and flawless gameplay that defines our products.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate closely with development teams to conduct early testing and provide critical feedback on features and areas.
• Create comprehensive documentation, including detailed test cases, test briefs, and contribute to QA knowledge base pages.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Core QA team, addressing design questions and facilitating communication.
• Act as the initial contact for development teams seeking updates on testing status or requesting adjustments to QA needs.
• Provide regular updates to QA Leads on the overall health and progress of assigned features and areas.
• Proactively identify and address potential issues that could hinder the Core QA team’s testing efforts.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• Extensive experience across multiple development cycles, with a strong emphasis on mission testing.
• Mission Flow & Progression Testing: Expertise in preventing progression blockers, validating objectives, waypoints, mission scripting (e.g., triggers for cutscenes, door mechanics), and ensuring seamless transitions between game areas.
• Combat & AI Testing: Verifying enemy spawns, ensuring proper balance and difficulty scaling, testing squad AI interactions (teammate behavior, revival, combat engagement), evaluating enemy AI tactics and movement, and confirming AI performance across difficulty settings.
• Co-op & Multiplayer Campaign Testing: Validating drop-in/drop-out co-op functionality, synchronizing mission objectives between players, assessing network stability and desync issues, and ensuring cutscenes and dialogue remain synced in co-op sessions.
• Cinematics & Narrative Testing: Ensuring correct triggering and flawless playback of cutscenes (audio/video), verifying dialogue timing and subtitle accuracy, and confirming that player choices accurately reflect in the story.
• Save System & Checkpoints: Ensuring correct placement and loading of checkpoint saves, verifying game state persistence after reloading, and testing cross-session save functionality.
• Level Design & Environment Testing: Identifying and reporting collision issues (players getting stuck, falling through the map), verifying the correct functionality of interactive objects (doors, levers, switches), and ensuring proper lighting, textures, and visual effects.
• Performance & Stability Testing: Pinpointing frame rate drops, crashes, and memory issues, ensuring smooth performance across various platforms, and testing for audio desyncs, texture pop-ins, and streaming issues.
• Proven experience in writing clear and comprehensive testing instructions or briefs.
• Demonstrated ability to accurately estimate testing efforts.
• A strong willingness to learn new technologies and continuously develop and refine skills.
• Exceptional documentation and organizational skills.
• Robust communication skills, with comfort in interfacing effectively with both Quality Assurance and Production teams.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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