Associate QA Analyst Contract at Pocket Gems
Pocket Gems, a leading mobile entertainment company, is breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobile-first Mantis Engine. Profitable since launch in 2009, the company has grown to over 200 employees. Pocket Gems’ games have been downloaded over 250 million times by players around the world. Our ideal candidates enjoy a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication.
How would you like to spend your day playing and testing mobile entertainment on the most popular mobile devices? Sounds pretty sweet, right? We think so too! As an Associate QA Analyst at Pocket Gems, you’ll be part of the team pushing the mobile frontier: testing in the most responsive, polished and flexible gaming environments. You’ll also be tackling exciting testing challenges: verifying continuously updated content, and helping create the best mobile testing tools and working with mobile engineers who crave and appreciate each of your bugs - imagine that! And, you will have a seat at the table when designing and enhancing our games - we love great ideas and don't care where they come from.
Qualifications/Desired Skills:
- Prefer 1-2 years of experience working in the game/software development industry as a tester, developer or tech support
- Passion for testing with an understanding of QA methodologies
- Familiar with manual black-box testing
- Ability to write relevant, actionable, and reproducible bug reports that stand up to withering scrutiny
- User-level experience with iPhone or Android
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to recognize test case deficiencies and propose improvements
- Strong communication skills
- Expressed by an ability to convey your thoughts and opinions over written and verbal medium
- Persistent and Proactive
- Doesn’t need to be tasked with daily tasks, seeks out the most important thing to do based on team objectives and goals
- Follows through on important work and commitments
- Mobile Game testing experience a plus
