Quality Assurance Tester

The Opportunity

As a Quality Assurance Tester at Hyper Hippo Entertainment, you will play a key role in the production team, working on award-winning mobile game titles like AdVenture Capitalist and AdVenture Communist. This is an exciting opportunity to test a diverse range of games at various development stages and deepen your understanding of mobile game development.

A Quality Assurance Tester's Impact

• Plans and executes test activities, including creating test plans, testing new content, logging/prioritizing bugs, and assisting with bug triages.
• Collaborates with other QA team members, developers, producers, and project managers, including reviewing test plans and strategies, escalating risks, and reporting on test plan progression.
• Works on projects at various stages of development, from pre-production through to live operations.
• Provides regular updates to Senior QA, QA Manager, Producers, and Project Managers for the respective products.
• Monitors Player Support feedback channels to actively identify and escalate service issues; and works with the Player Experience team to ensure bug-related community feedback is investigated and addressed.
• Assists Senior QA with release and testing process functions.
• Weighs in on feature design and playtests prototypes for new games and features.
• Advocates for a culture of shared quality ownership throughout the studio and project teams.
• Inspires teamwork and collaboration.

Your Track Record Includes

• 2+ years experience in a QA role, preferably in digital/mobile gaming.
• A passion for user experience and making great mobile products.
• Knowledge of bug entry and collaboration tools, including JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience with G Suite tools including Sheets, Docs, Hangouts, etc.
• Knowledge of testing phases and approaches, including functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end.
• **Bonus Points For:** Experience using Version Control Systems (Git, SVN, etc.), Unity, automated testing tools, Android Studio, XCode, Google Play Console, and iTunes Connect; and experience shipping mobile titles.

What We Offer!

Hyper Hippo provides a competitive annual base salary ranging from $66,500 to $76,000 CAD for candidates in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario, with variations for other jurisdictions. Beyond salary, you can expect:

• An incentive plan tied to company goals.
• Extended health, dental & vision benefits for you and your dependents (plan premiums 100% covered by the company) + a $600 health & wellness spending account + an Employee & Family Assistance Program.
• 4 weeks vacation + paid winter holiday closure + 10 paid personal/sick days per year.
• Annual $3,000 self-development “Brain Fund” budget + 5 paid professional development days to attend conferences, courses, training – you name it!
• Home Ergonomic Benefit for your home office - $1,000 + company laptop (choice of PC or Mac!) and accessories required to work effectively.
• Paid short or long term parental and compassionate caregiver leave - up to 16 weeks’ top up.
• Charitable gift matching up to $1,000 per year for recognized causes that you support + 3 paid volunteer days per year.

Key skills/competency

• Mobile Game Testing
• JIRA
• Confluence
• Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Integration Testing
• End-to-End Testing
• User Experience
• Bug Prioritization
• Test Plan Creation