About the role
Role Overview
Frontier is an independent video game developer and publisher located in Cambridge, UK, focused on simulation games. This role is offered on a full in-studio or hybrid basis (minimum 3 days per week in the studio). Comprehensive relocation support is available.
What You Will Be Doing
- Write, run, and maintain medium-to-high risk test specifications and suites for new and existing projects, ensuring efficient time reporting and estimates.
- Conduct playtesting using various test personas, such as destructive testing and player-like testing.
- Envision user stories and gather data with provided instructions.
- Identify and report issues in a clear and accurate manner.
- Perform regression testing for both internal and external issues.
- Act as a point of contact for specific features, collaborating with cross-discipline teams to gather and relay relevant information back to QA.
- Provide guidance and technical mentoring to other testers, including assistance with documentation and advanced troubleshooting.
- Raise potential future hurdles for testing, pre-empt problems, and suggest fixes and ideas for further testing.
- Contribute to product information, identification of problem areas, and trend analysis to navigate risks.
- Potentially assume Assistant Lead or Team Lead responsibilities for specific phases or entire projects depending on needs.
Qualifications
- Significant QA experience in the games industry.
- Strong understanding of QA tools, procedures, methodologies, and workflows.
- Advanced troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Experience aligning testing with requirements, managing priorities, and collaborating across disciplines/teams.
- Proven leadership or mentoring experience.
Bonus Skills
- Ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
- Proven ability managing people.
Benefits and Perks
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Success-based annual bonus.
- Share option schemes.
- Life assurance.
- Private family healthcare.
- Flexitime working hours.
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
- In-house subsidised catering.
- Support with relocation.
- Cycle to Work scheme and free bike servicing.
- Wellbeing activities and initiatives to support mental and physical health.
- Social activities and events.
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment.