About the role
About Autonomica
Autonomica is an open-world survival, farming, and automation game currently in development for PC. Players explore a seamless world, build and automate production systems, farm and develop resources, restore abandoned infrastructure, and uncover the story behind a failed scientific operation involving temporal anomalies. The game combines survival, sandbox building, farming, factory automation, exploration, and cooperative multiplayer.
About the Role
This is a full-time remote position for someone with professional QA experience who enjoys digging into complex systems, reproducing difficult issues, and helping developers turn problems into clear, actionable tasks. The role focuses on investigating why issues occur, under what conditions, and how reliably they can be reproduced.
Responsibilities
- Investigate increasingly complex and interconnected gameplay systems.
- Create clear, concise, and reproducible bug reports.
- Investigate issues reported by players:
- Ask clarifying questions.
- Reproduce reported issues.
- Convert reports into actionable development tasks.
- Collect necessary data for developers:
- Clear reproduction steps.
- Save files.
- Screenshots and videos.
- Logs.
- Build and branch information.
- Hardware specifications when relevant.
- Apply systematic testing methods:
- Initial build verification.
- Regression testing.
- Exploratory testing.
- Feature verification.
- Systematic checklist-driven testing.
- Testing complete gameplay loops before releases.
Qualifications
- Professional experience in game QA or software QA.
- Ability to write clear, concise, and reproducible bug reports.
- Experience with Jira or similar issue tracking systems.
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Plastic SCM, Git, Perforce, SVN).
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Experience working remotely with distributed teams.
- Methodical, analytical, and organized approach.
- Ability to investigate the following:
- Reproduction from fresh vs. existing saves.
- Behavior in sandbox mode.
- Comparison across different branches.
- Identification of the smallest possible setup that causes the failure.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience testing Unity games.
- Experience with survival, sandbox, simulation, or automation games.
- Multiplayer testing experience.
- Performance testing experience.
- Hardware compatibility testing.
- General understanding of game development workflows.
- Experience communicating professionally with players and gaming communities.
Conditions
- Employment Type: Full-time, remote.
- Schedule: Aligned around UTC-3.
- Compensation: $1,000-$2,000 USD per month (depending on experience and availability).
- Benefits:
- Stable, long-term work.
- Paid time off after 6 months.
- Compensation reviews as the project develops and responsibilities grow.
About Crytivo
Crytivo is an independent game developer and publisher. The studio is currently developing Autonomica for PC with cooperative multiplayer and story-driven exploration.