BioWare, the newest member of the incredible family of EA studios, has created some of the world's best-selling titles including the award-winning Baldur's Gate™, Neverwinter Nights™ series, and Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™. Original BioWare-created IPs include Jade Empire™ and the critically acclaimed, Mass Effect. BioWare is hard at work on the epic fantasy RPG Dragon Age™; Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood™ for the Nintendo DS™; and unannounced projects including a highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game.
BioWare’s games have continually achieved critical and commercial success. All of our published titles are in the top 5% highest rated at www.gamerankings.com; in fact we have 6 games in the top 1% highest rated games of all time! Today BioWare has more than 400 staff at its two locations and continues to grow. We have sold over 20 million games (including engine licenses) in the past ten years!
BioWare Austin is located in the vibrant city of Austin, Texas. What better balance can a city offer than being both the 'Best Place for Business and Careers' and the 'Live Music Capital of the World'? Austin pleases all in rankings ranging from 'Best City for Relocating Families' to 'Best Cities for Singles'. Other assessments consistently recognize the region as among the most inventive, creative, wired, rockin', educated, fit and loved.
BioWare, the newest member of the incredible family of EA studios, has created some of the world's best-selling titles including the award-winning Baldur's Gate, the Neverwinter Nights series, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Original BioWare-created IPs include Jade Empire, the critically acclaimed Mass Effect and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood for the Nintendo DS. BioWare is hard at work on the epic fantasy RPG Dragon Age; and Star Wars: The Old Republic, our massively multiplayer online game being developed at BioWare Austin.
BioWare is searching for a contract Senior QA Technical Tester for our Austin, Texas studio. This individual will test software products in accordance with software test plans and procedures, execute test cases, track bugs and provide root cause analysis of defects when possible with detailed descriptions of procedures to duplicate failures. This position will report to the local Quality Assurance Technical Lead.
Key Responsibilities • Assists in day to day testing of features surrounding the game • Tracks service issues from beginning to end • Helps improve the client performance testing process • Performs daily client performance testing and tracking of results • Performs daily go/no go status tracking of client integrations • Finds and reports issues/bugs/inconsistencies • Clarifies issues (providing detailed information if necessary) • Verifies the resolution of issues through to the end of the testing process • Assists in the generation and execution of test cases
Skills/ Requirements • 1+ year of client/server testing experience in the gaming industry • Experience with Windows Remote Desktop • Understanding of branch development • Experience with source control software preferred (Perforce, StarTeam, etc.) • Solid problem identification skills • Ability to write detailed, accurate test plans • Ability to stay focused when handling repetitive and monotonous tasks • Ability to manage multiple assigned tasks • Familiarity/Ability to troubleshoot PC Hardware/Software • Experience with the MS Office family of products and crazy gaming skills • Experience with Windows XP/ Vista • Experience with Linux, SQL preferred • Focus on continuous improvement • Amazing, freakishly weird attention to detail, great verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to work as member of a team
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for interview will be contacted at this time.
