Position Description: Quality Assurance Engineer- Edinburgh onsite

No sponsorship provided

Overview

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, functionality, and user experience of all our Edinburgh based client's products with a focus on the software suite and associated integrations and applications in order to achieve the best outcome for customers. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including hardware engineers, software developers, and designers, to deliver a high-quality product.

Responsibilities:

• Test Planning and Execution:

• Understand customer use cases, particularly in VR (Virtual Reality) and XR (Extended Reality), and leverage this knowledge to develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Execute functional, usability, performance, and compatibility testing.
• Identify defects, track issues, and work with development teams to resolve them.

• Build VR Specific Expertise:

• Understand the unique challenges of VR environments (latency, tracking, haptics) and ensure that software and hardware products perform optimally in these environments.
• Understand the different VR hardware and software technologies and open standards such as OpenXR.

• Validate hand tracking accuracy, gesture recognition and other associate technological challenges.

• Hardware and Software Integration:

• Test the seamless integration of our hardware with VR headsets, controllers, and other peripherals.
• Verify compatibility across different platforms.
• Organise and perform data gathering.

• Regression Testing and Automation:

• Implement automated test scripts to streamline regression testing.
• Ensure automated testing is integrated into the CI/CD pipelines and executed on a regular basis.
• Maintain test environments and test data.

• Documentation and Reporting:

• Document test coverage, test results, defects, and improvements.
• Collaborate with technical writers to create user manuals and troubleshooting guides.

Qualification, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• A passion for gaming, especially in VR/XR with a good understanding of relevant technologies and tools.
• Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer in the gaming industry or related field.
• Familiarity with VR hardware, tracking systems, and haptic feedback.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with test automation tools is a plus.
• Able to operate in a changing environment, with ability to problem solve as a team to progress

Please send in a CV to discuss