QA Engineer
Own release quality for iOS, Android, and backend products at a consumer gaming and collectibles company. Define testing standards, protect release quality, and build scalable QA processes for live, monetized experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own the release quality gate for iOS, Android, and backend releases
- Design and maintain test plans
- Test live-operations content and time-based features across time zones, app states, and event boundaries
- Verify payment, refund, KYC, balance, and inventory flows end to end
- Test animation-heavy and state-heavy screens across interruptions, backgrounding, desynchronization, and low-end devices
- Run device-matrix regression across iOS and Android versions, screen sizes, and network conditions
- Build and expand automated regression coverage for mobile applications and APIs
- Reproduce, isolate, document, and triage defects with logs, severity, and clear reproduction steps
- Track escaped defects, crash-free rate, and regression pass rate for each release
- Partner with product and design on acceptance criteria before development begins
Requirements
- 3+ years of QA experience with live mobile games or game-like consumer apps
- Hands-on testing of in-app economies and monetization, including purchases, currencies, inventories, refunds, exploits, and edge cases
- Experience testing live operations, scheduled content, time-gated features, feature flags, and A/B experiments
- Strong exploratory-testing skills
- Experience with Xcode, Android Studio, device logs, crash reports, and network inspection tools
- Experience with test-case management and bug-tracking tools
- Ability to write clear, reproducible bug reports
- Good written and spoken English
Nice to have
- Mobile test automation with Appium, Maestro, Espresso, XCUITest, or similar
- API testing with Postman, REST clients, or scripted tests
- Basic SQL for backend-state verification
- Familiarity with Kotlin, Compose, or Kotlin Multiplatform
- Experience with analytics and experimentation platforms such as Mixpanel, Statsig, or Firebase
- Understanding of TestFlight and Play Console staged releases
- Experience testing payments or KYC-regulated products
Benefits
- First full-time QA hire with ownership of process, tooling, and standards
- Small senior R&D team with direct access to product decisions
- Short release cycles
- Product involving real money, physical goods, and a live user base
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