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  • Senior Quality Assurance Tester, Publishing Operations Back
    Division/Studio: Vigil Games (Austin, TX)
    Employment Status: Full Time - Benefits
    Relocation Eligible: Yes
    About Vigil Games:
    Vigil Games was founded in 2005 by world renowned comic artist Joe Madureira and video game industry veteran David Adams. In 2006, we became a member of the THQ family. Vigil's recent release, Darksiders, available on current generation console systems, has achieved both critical acclaim and solid retail sales. The studio facility is located in the beautiful hills of Austin, TX. While always striving to be a world class game development house, Vigil also provides an exciting, fun, and creative work atmosphere.As part of the THQ family of studios, Vigil offers a very competitive compensation package that includes bonuses, stock options, health insurance, 401k, educational assistance, and much more.
    Job Description:
    Vigil Games is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Tester to join our new online publishing operations team in Austin, Texas. In this role, the Senior Quality Assurance Tester will ensure that all platform services developed for the launch and ongoing operation of Dark Millennium Online are error-free and meet a high level of quality and stability. You will work closely with the Publishing Operations programming team and the game development team to ensure that requirements are understood and documented in test plans, and will help create necessary test cases, test tools and test scripts.
    Core Responsibilities
    • Create test plans based on development and software requirements.
    • Develop, track, and report project level status and other performance metrics to appropriate project managers.
    • Administer and maintain testing tools and assets.
    • Execute manual and automated test cases, analyze results, report and track defects, verify fixes and perform follow-up work to resolve issues.
    • Delegate and assign tasks to team members when needed.
    • Work with the development teams to configure, setup and maintain all hardware and software on test environments.
    • Coordinate and participate in triage meetings to help determine resolution status, priority and timing.
    Skills & Qualifications
    • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
    • 5+ years of software QA experience.
    • Experience with online gaming in general and MMOs in specific.
    • Experience with Agile and SCRUM methodology.
    • Proven testing experience throughout the lifecycle of a project.
    • Working knowledge of C++  and scripting languages(Lua)
    • Experience testing enterprise level software architectures.
    • Experience stress and load testing enterprise level software.
    • Knowledge of database theory and implementation with SQL experience.
    • Excellent communication, documentation, interpersonal and presentation skills.
    •  Working knowledge of Windows and Linux/Unix.

    Respond to the Job post by sending an email to jobs@vigilgames.com to apply for this position!