QA Manager

Come join Nightdive Studios, the developer behind classic games including System Shock Remake, Turok, and The Thing: Remastered. We are looking for talented individuals to grow our team. Our team of talented developers is growing. Our backgrounds are diverse, but we share a real passion for all things retro gaming. We believe that if you’re looking for a tight-knit crew that celebrates self-expression and embraces collaboration, we might be a phenomenal fit for you. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Digest incoming bug reports from all current Nightdive projects
• Lead bug triage meetings and coordinate between Nightdive developers and external QA partners
• Occasionally perform smoke tests and playtests of our games in an early state to verify game functionality
• Providing guidance and support to QA Teams
• Post game release, looking over social media, community discord channels for any issues not caught by developers or QA teams and adding them to JIRA. 
• Self-motivated, with a desire to learn with little supervision
• Ability to quickly grasp concepts and improve on existing ones
• Analyze risks of defects and bugs on the schedule and project timelines. 
• Understanding of console-specific bugs and features
• Driven to achieve excellence with a history of strong work output
• Researching, designing, documenting, and modifying software and bug specifications
• Ability to work with others who are located overseas and in different timezones
• Able to provide feedback and suggestions on improving existing systems in a professional manner
• Meet deadlines with the minimal turnaround time
• Regularly checking and contributing to conversations happening in either Discord, Notion, email, Slack, and JIRA
• Report to Producers, Project Managers, and Project Coordinators a condensed/digestible state of the bugs in the array of the different Nightdive projects.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ego-free, highly motivated, action-oriented, curious learn-it-all with a growth mindset
• Strive for superior performance
• Comfort operating in ambiguous and unregimented environments
• Ability to learn and consistently use JIRA for keeping track of upcoming launches 
• 3-5 years of QA experience in the game, software industry, or both. 
• Shipped at least 3 titles on multiple platforms.
• Experience with Perforce, Git, or any version control system.
• PC cross-platform experience (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc)
• Console platform experience (Xbox, PS4/PS5, Switch, etc)
• Experience with open source software and licenses (GPL3, etc)
• Familiarly with older game titles a plus
• Past experiences with in-house game engines a plus
• Experience with past-gen and current-gen console platforms a plus
• Creative solutions to complex problems a plus

REPORT STRUCTURE

• This role reports to the Producer.

Compensation: $50k - $70k/year depending on experience