Senior Quality Design Solutions Architect

$122,400 - $176,300/Yr

Maxis Studios - Redwood City, CA

Full-time - Senior

Redwood City, CA

About the position

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our goal is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. The Sims family creates games and experiences for millions of people around the world. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but aim to build a world as it could be. We're excited you're interested to learn more about how you can join our team and dream big. As a Senior Quality Design Solutions Architect, your time will be focused on ensuring that we can build long-term scalable solutions, automated test framework creation/solutions, AI/ML, and scalable processes with participation in the test responsibilities. Additionally, you will focus on improving the operational efficiency of QA efforts by assessing current quality assurance practices and incorporating new QA strategies. You will work on department level projects and operational efficiency projects. You will report into a Development Director II.

Responsibilities

• Create scalable automated test frameworks and create test automation.
• Facilitate and define the execution of end-to-end feature quality strategy.
• Partner with senior development, production, design, and QV team members to ensure high-quality features from both a functional and qualitative perspective.
• Guide feature quality by analyzing internal development & live player data, feature completing testing strategies, and conducting design reviews.
• Mentor local and remote test teams to help them find solutions to complex problems and grow their capabilities.
• Identify risks to the feature and overall project as early as possible, partnering with the development and other partner teams to help determine mitigation strategies.
• Work directly with QV Engineering and Data Analyst team members to provide a comprehensive picture of your feature's testing status and development progress, considering both automation and data visualizations.
• Partner with engineers to apply automation and tools to improve the QA process, and are testing Value to partners.
• Establish telemetry to provide valuable insights to the testing and development teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years testing on multiple platforms, including Mobile, PC, Mac, PlayStation, and Xbox.
• 5+ years using game development tools to enhance white and gray-box testing strategies.
• Experienced defining test strategy, test automation/frameworks, telemetry.
• Ability to understand/contribute to metrics, analytics, SQL, and data visualizations to guide discussions on risk, priority, recommendations.
• Understanding of game development, interdisciplinary dependencies and associated development risks.
• Experience working within a collaborative team environment across many locations/time zones.
• Worked with API testing, Performance testing, AI/ML, Mobile test automation.
• Unreal Experience.

Benefits

• Paid time off (3 weeks per year to start)
• 80 hours per year of sick time
• 16 paid company holidays per year
• 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k) to regular full-time employees
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave)
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage
• Retirement plan to regular full-time employees