Playground Games
QA Technician - Agency Contract
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Playground Games is looking for a QA Technician to join our Forza Horizon team here in Leamington Spa.
About Us
As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun.
About The Role
As QA Technician you will be working with the Quality Assurance team to support the delivery of regular content updates to Forza Horizon 6. You will use your observation skills to help ensure that all work is bug free and of the highest possible quality.
Our ideal candidate is a promising QA Technician who is passionate about games, has excellent communication skills and a keen eye for detail.
This is a contract role: based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa.
What You’ll Do
- Validate new game builds
- Test new features as they appear in game, ensuring all work is to the highest possible standard, and integrate smoothly with existing game features
- Liaise with developers to ensure that you keep up to date with the current game design and functionality, as well as sharing this information in a clear and concise manner with an external test team to facilitate their testing of the title
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What You’ll Bring
- Experience working in-house with a development team on current-gen consoles
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- An eye for detail
- A genuine passion for video games
We encourage applications from developers having a variety of backgrounds.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.
Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.
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We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.
If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com.
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