QA Embedded Tester - Mahone Bay, Canada - Hutch

Description

We're Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We're driven by our players Come and Join the mission


QA Embedded Tester
Hutch are looking for a QA Embedded Tester to join their team in our Nova Scotia studio in Canada. We're a small team that supports the games teams with tools and technology. We seek to bring efficiencies to their workflows and help the games to run in an optimal way.

In this role, you will be working alongside a small team of engineers across a variety of games / tools development projects.

You will be the first port of call for changes that will eventually reach the games teams and should work closely with the QA Project Leads to prepare and inform them of what is coming and how to test it.

You will be a good communicator with excellent people skills and strong technical skills. You will own the testing for significant aspects of our projects, completing in-house testing and regression. You must be self-motivated, well organised, and have a real passion for QA.


Responsibilities

• Own the testing for maintenance updates to our legacy titles
• Form and execute test strategies for new technology and tools ahead of their implementation across the portfolio
• Design and execute functional and regression test plans
• Working embedded within the development team completing inhouse testing and bug regression, attending and contributing to sprint planning, retrospectives, and the daily scrums
• Reporting on build status. Tracking bug process/ database management
• Implementation of bug prevention methods
• Proactive risk analysis to identify key areas of testing

Requirements:

• A solid understanding with a variety of different testing techniques such as Test Driven Development strategies
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage your own workload
• At least 1 year QA experience working embedded within a development team
• Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with remote teams

Benefits

Life at Hutch
Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;

• Hutch is now a 4Day Work Week company
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salary
• Private health care
• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more

- _This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week) Mon-Thurs, with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week)._

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