Position Description: Quality Assurance Engineer- Edinburgh onsite
No sponsorship provided
Overview
As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, functionality, and user experience of all our Edinburgh based client's products with a focus on the software suite and associated integrations and applications in order to achieve the best outcome for customers. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including hardware engineers, software developers, and designers, to deliver a high-quality product.
Responsibilities:
- Test Planning and Execution:
- Understand customer use cases, particularly in VR (Virtual Reality) and XR (Extended Reality), and leverage this knowledge to develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
- Execute functional, usability, performance, and compatibility testing.
- Identify defects, track issues, and work with development teams to resolve them.
- Build VR Specific Expertise:
- Understand the unique challenges of VR environments (latency, tracking, haptics) and ensure that software and hardware products perform optimally in these environments.
- Understand the different VR hardware and software technologies and open standards such as OpenXR.
- Validate hand tracking accuracy, gesture recognition and other associate technological challenges.
- Hardware and Software Integration:
- Test the seamless integration of our hardware with VR headsets, controllers, and other peripherals.
- Verify compatibility across different platforms.
- Organise and perform data gathering.
- Regression Testing and Automation:
- Implement automated test scripts to streamline regression testing.
- Ensure automated testing is integrated into the CI/CD pipelines and executed on a regular basis.
- Maintain test environments and test data.
- Documentation and Reporting:
- Document test coverage, test results, defects, and improvements.
- Collaborate with technical writers to create user manuals and troubleshooting guides.
Qualification, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- A passion for gaming, especially in VR/XR with a good understanding of relevant technologies and tools.
- Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer in the gaming industry or related field.
- Familiarity with VR hardware, tracking systems, and haptic feedback.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Experience with test automation tools is a plus.
- Able to operate in a changing environment, with ability to problem solve as a team to progress
Please send in a CV to discuss
