Senior QA Analyst at Black Tree Gaming Ltd – Exeter, England, UK
Job Description
Black Tree Gaming Ltd. is the owner of NexusMods.com, a website with a user base of over 55 million users and serving over 1.8 billion pageviews a year. Based in the heart of Southernhay, Exeter – we are a computer game loving collaborative team solving large scale challenges with the latest technology.
We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our team in Exeter, UK. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in agile software development and driving quality at all phases of the software delivery lifecycle. You will work closely alongside our Development, Product and Design teams to implement test solutions that deliver quality to our users. You should be comfortable working across stacks, with an eagerness to learn new technologies as required. Experience of computer gaming is not essential.
At Nexus Mods the most important thing is that you bring a problem-solving mindset and a positive attitude to the team. In this role we also expect you to be self-driven and able to deliver results whilst performing the usual roles expected of a QA Engineer.
We are ideally looking for someone to join our team who is interested in progressing their career and over time transition into becoming a team leader / head of department and help us build a QA team.
Other Information
- This is a full-time office-based position from our office in Exeter, UK.
- We will provide high-spec hardware for you to work from in the office.
- We may be able to assist with relocation expenses and logistics.
Responsibilities
- Manual end-to-end testing of sprint issues.
- Ensure that all critical user journeys and interactions are thoroughly tested.
- Participate in user acceptance testing, alongside the Product Manager.
- Implement automated end-to-end testing on our CI/CD pipelines.
- Maintain a comprehensive regression test suite to ensure ongoing quality.
- Implement automated UI tests to monitor user experience issues.
- Improve processes around test data, users and scenarios for ease of testing.
- Ownership of high-level strategic QA standards for all of our services.
Requirements
The role will involve all of the following, so we would expect you to demonstrate experience in these areas in a resume or portfolio of previous work:
- Experience in designing, writing and executing test plans for websites.
- Experience with API Testing (particularly GraphQL).
- Experience with BDD.
- Experience working with Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS.
- Experience working with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Knowledge of automated testing tools (particularly Playwright).
- Strong communication skills.
Bonus Skills
- Experience using GitLab (or similar) for issue tracking.
- Experience testing desktop applications.
- Experience with TDD and DDD.
- Experience configuring automated test suites on CI/CD pipelines.
- An understanding of games modding and knowledge of Nexus Mods.
- A sense of humor.
- A love of computer games.
