Lead QA Analyst

**Position**: Lead QA

**Status**: Full-time / Permanent

**~ **The Studio**

Compulsion Games is a first-party game studio and subsidiary of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, located in Montreal, Canada.

We are a boutique team of industry veterans, who trust and respect each other and love our craft. Our games have won praise for their art, music, world-building, and narrative. We are now working on South of Midnight, our recently-announced project.

We like to take on troublesome themes. We try to make characters with compelling, human flaws. We mix darkness and comedy.

**~ **Our Culture**
Compulsion Games is a quality-led studio with a humble team that enjoys experimenting with an artistic approach to making games. We like to hire people who are drawn to our core values of trust, autonomy, harmony, and craftsmanship and share our vision of a studio built around them.
As a team, we do not want to grow too big in order to stay true to these values as they don’t scale well.

Our team is passionately committed to both diversity and accessibility, core values throughout the Xbox Game Studios group. Therefore, a core part of our hiring process is ensuring new hires are well-aligned in order to build a harmonious team and company.
We care deeply about our team and their well-being, so you’d be joining a close-knit group of creative people.

**~ The Role**

As a skilled QA Lead, you’ll be spearheading testing activities and ensuring exceptional quality in our games. As part of our limited headcount studio, you'll lead the testing efforts, mentor a small internal team and help them grow as professionals, and maintain collaboration with the external QA partners.

With a hands-on approach to testing, you'll play a crucial role in delivering remarkable gaming experiences, in the dynamic atmosphere of our studio.

**~ **Responsibilities**:

- Manage a small team of QA analysts who integrate directly with the development teams and help them create quality content
- Coordinate QA activities and test runs
- Develop test plans and distribute QA tasks
- Actively participate in hands-on testing and test case execution to ensure quality standards.
- Clearly document issues and ensure they can be reproduced effectively
- Create, maintain, and execute test cases for assigned areas
- Provide constructive feedback on systems, features and the overall holistic quality of our games
- Assist and mentor other members of the quality assurance team Follow up with other team members to ensure timely resolution of issues and effective collaboration.
- Work and share with other industry veterans who are passionate about their craft
- Communicate important tasks
- Collaborate with an external QA team to ensure comprehensive testing coverage and alignment with quality standards

**~ **Qualifications**
- 5+ years experience in game quality assurance
- At least one year of experience coordinating QA tasks or leading a QA team
- An excellent understanding of database and bug-tracking software (eg. JIRA)
- Knowledge of automation is an asset
- Experience designing re-usable test cases and test suites
- The ability to work autonomously, prioritize & delegate tasks and take ownership of assigned areas
- A passion for video games and interactive story-telling
- An innate desire to understand how things work and a willingness to learn
- Looking to join a top-level, creative and independent team

If that all sounds like you, then we would love for you to come and work with us.

**This is a full-time position, with full salary and studio benefits based in our new Downtown location, by Atwater Metro station. Since Covid-19, we have permanently shifted the studio to a hybrid, or full-time remote working setup for employees, provided you are already based in or willing to relocate to Canada.