QA Engineer II - VALORANT, Core Game Features

At Riot, QA Engineers are quality owners who champion holistic quality across products and services. We focus on product-level quality strategy, working closely with development teams from the earliest stages through release. We embed with teams to define quality goals, implement testing strategies, and drive ongoing improvement. QA Engineers are not just testers — we are quality advocates with a deep understanding of our products and a passion for improving player experiences.

As a QA Engineer II for the Core Game Features team on VALORANT,you will partner with engineers, designers and producers to drive quality for the systems that underpin VALORANT's Core Gameplay and Modes. You will own test planning and ensure comprehensive test coverage by coordinating remote testers while performing whitebox testing where appropriate. You will analyze test, telemetry, and defect data to communicate product quality, identify risks, and inform development decisions.

You will report into a Quality Manager.

• Triage, monitor, and prioritize the defect database
• Author test plans, coordinate test execution, and oversee quality coverage across multiple features
• Continuously improve testing processes, execution methods, and quality workflows
• Partner with engineering, design, production, and other disciplines to provide continuous quality feedback and drive quality upstream
• Proactively identify and highlight quality concerns & risks to product stakeholders, and collaborate to develop risk mitigation strategies
• Map your team's work to quality targets based on product goals, while providing visibility into quality progress
• Collect, track, analyze, and report quality metrics to stakeholders that provide measurable and actionable test data
• Continuously improve testing processes, execution methods, and quality workflows at the team level
• Ensure high quality releases and updates for various player-facing features

• 3+ years of Quality Assurance experience
• Knowledge of Product Development Pipelines and Workflows
• Agile Product Development & Agile Testing experience
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience tasking and training remote testers
• Experience with Jira and general defect management
• Experience testing and releasing live games on Console and PC

• Professional experience working on first-person shooters, or extensive engagement playing them
• Experience working with Unreal Engine 5
• Experience working with Blueprint or similar visual scripting tools
• Understanding of automated test strategy
• ISTQB Foundation Level
• ISTQB Agile Tester or ICAgile Agile Testing (ICP-TST)
• ISTQB Expert Level
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager
• ICAgile Test Expert (ICE-AT)

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

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