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Intermediate QA Tester
Full Time || Remote / Work-From-Home Position
Deep Field Games is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Tester to join the team working on Abiotic Factor.
Role Responsibilities:
- Identify, document, and report issues such as bugs, exploits, accessibility barriers, and QoL concerns
- Test the functionality of newly implemented features
- Test to confirm if bug fixes were successful
- Verify whether or not previously documented issues are current
- Investigate and determine replication steps for issues
- Perform feature regression testing
- Identify and escalate critical issues
- Conduct BVTs and ensure they’re kept up to date with new features or changes
- Process and document issues reported from staff and internal playtests
- Assisting with QA projects and other related tasks as needed
- Work with the QA Director to refine testing processes and pipelines where necessary
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years of direct QA experience with PC-based games
- A deep passion for the role - someone who lives and breathes QA
- Ability to work in the New Zealand time zone
- A reliable second PC setup available for client testing
- Well-developed analytical and critical thinking skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to pivot to different tasks effectively as needed
- High attention to detail while balancing time constraints
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work well as part of a team and independently
- Working knowledge of bug tracking systems, documentation requirements, and testing methodologies
- Patience, persistence, and resilience to fatigue brought on by repetitious testing
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous QA experience in a remote environment
- Previous QA experience with shipping a title, either to EA or 1.0
- Enough recent playtime to have moderate to strong familiarity with Abiotic Factor
We offer:
- $55,000 to $65,000 NZD annually, depending on experience
- Full time role at 40 hours per week
- 100% remote work
- Flexible hours outside core work times
- Four workweeks of paid holiday and 10 paid sick days per year (prorated for contracts less than one year)
- Paid birthday off every year
- Annual company closedown for 2 weeks at the end of each year
- Initially a 3 month fixed-term contract as we have a guaranteed workload for a 3 month period and an agreement in place from our publishing partner. We anticipate the contract will be renewed as Abiotic Factor’s performance becomes clearer and we have a longer-term plan in place with our publisher.
To apply for this role, send an email to [email protected] with the following information:
- Please specify the title of the position you're applying for in the email subject
- Include a brief cover letter (the email body itself is fine)
- Attach your CV / resume document
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Are you interested in working with Deep Field Games, but your desired role isn't listed? Please feel welcome to submit an application - we'd love to hear from you! Submit an Expression Of Interest to [email protected] with the following information:
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- Please specify the position you're applying for in the email subject
- Include a brief cover letter (the email body itself is fine)
- Attach your CV / resume document
- Include a link to any past works or portfolios (if applicable)
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Deep Field was founded in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2021 by Geoff ‘Zag’ Keene (creator of Unfortunate Spacemen) and industry veterans from around the world. We’re an ambitious studio, focused on shipping co-operative multiplayer titles with mood, atmosphere and left-field fun. We’re pushing co-operative play into new places – delivering fresh, hyper-fun takes on existing genres, while breaking new ground for tomorrow.
We are big believers in transferable skills, and people-over-process. Hiring the correct people is our goal, those with the passion, creativity, and the willingness to learn and grow with our studio. We also abide by the New Zealand Employment Relations Act of 2000, whereby all qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, colour, ethnicity or national origins, sex, sexual orientation, disability, religious beliefs, marital or family status, employment status, etc.
We are big believers in transferable skills, and people-over-process. Hiring the correct people is our goal, those with the passion, creativity, and the willingness to learn and grow with our studio. We also abide by the New Zealand Employment Relations Act of 2000, whereby all qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, colour, ethnicity or national origins, sex, sexual orientation, disability, religious beliefs, marital or family status, employment status, etc.