QA Specialist

Craft:

Technology & Development

Job Description:

Embark on a Quality Quest in the Candy Kingdom!

Are you passionate about gaming and have a keen eye for detail? King invites you to bring your expertise to the Candy Crush Saga team as our new QA Specialist. In this role, you'll be the champion of excellence, help ensuring that every level, feature, and pixel meets our gold-standard for fun. As part of a cross-functional team, you'll help ensure that our millions of players around the globe enjoy a seamless, sweet, and satisfying gaming experience. If you're driven by quality and ready to make a real impact on one of the world's most beloved games, we'd love to meet you!

Your Role within Our Kingdom:

Join us as a QA Specialist at Candy Crush Saga, where you'll be crucial in the  division, embodying our Quality Assistance mindset. This approach means quality is a collective journey, with every team member playing a part in crafting our game's excellence. You'll be the champion of this culture, help embedding quality in every aspect of development, from initial design to final release. By mentoring teams and advocating for everyone to own quality, your role helps preserve our game as a beloved adventure for millions. Dive into a world where your skills contribute to creating magical, flawless experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Be the main point of contact for quality and testing-related matters for cross-functional (multidisciplinary) teams (1-2 teams).
• Collaborate with the test strategy, test design, test execution, defect analysis/root cause investigation, test reporting, and continuous improvement of the bug lifecycle process.
• Promote good QA practices, including agile testing, test automation, and risk-based testing.
• Identify and communicate risks that may impact other teams in relation to the overall quality of our products.
• Coordinate with other teams and outsourced QA teams at King during the integration and testing of key features.
• Participate in QA craft initiatives.
•  Understand how the games integrate with King tech products.

Skills to Build Thrills:

• Ability to identify and investigate risks and bugs in games and/or mobile apps.
• Experience working in cross-functional (multidisciplinary) teams.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Competence in the creation and maintenance of comprehensive documentation.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Strong relationship-building abilities.
• Comfortable giving and receiving feedback.
• Understanding of the benefits and costs of automation in the QA process.
• Experience with project and test management tools.

Additional Skills:

• Knowledge of game/software development processes and continuous development.
• Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and promoting good practices.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.