Job Description

EA Vancouver is looking for a Quality Designer to join an established, experienced team of working on a AAA Sports title in development at EA Vancouver. This is an opportunity to join a veteran team and help drive quality across both the FIFA franchise, and across Sports business located in Vancouver and Bucharest.

Expectations:

• Serve as a coach and mentor resource for both internal and external QA teams, assisting them in the resolution of complex problems and growing their skills and knowledge.
• Develop and build working relationships with senior members of the development, production and design teams by driving a higher quality player experience through tasks such as feature planning, analyzing internal data/player data, and feature/design reviews.
• Propose, provide, and drive solutions to problems with minimal supervision from senior leadership/management.
• End-to-end ownership of quality strategy.
• Support Production group with licensing approval workflows, including capturing and compiling of relevant content used to communicate intent with external partners in a high-paced environment.
• Collaborate and Drive best practices across multiple teams and across multiple studios.
• Support identification of technical solutions and automation opportunities.
• Effectively report progress and status through regular email or face-to-face communication with appropriate managers and other stakeholders..
• Champion "Player First" at all times, and be an advocate for the player in everything we do.

Requirements:

5+ years of applicable work experience.

• In-depth knowledge of AAA software/game development, including both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead medium-to-large scale on-site teams. Demonstrated ability to work with external partners considered to be a plus.
• Ability to compile data points spanning multiple sources into a cohesive, consumable, and actionable summary to senior stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Defect and Task tracking tool experience (JIRA, DevTrack, TestRail, Hansoft)
• Game engine experience a plus.
• Perforce or other collaboration tool experience a plus.

EA is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.