# Associate Quality Designer

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Hyderabad
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Associate-Quality-Designer/213572
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bc60ef4f-24e

## Description

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The Associate Quality Designer position will require you to provide an oversight of our quality processes and establish best practices for our analyst family together with our leadership team. You will oversee the entire quality plan for one of the modules of the team located in Hyderabad in collaboration with our partners, and partner with the Producer and/or Designer to agree on the quality and feedback for new features.

Responsibilities:

- Leverage testing skills and methodologies to systematically test the product and share results

- Help evolve the team’s tools and processes with a focus on expanding capabilities and responsibilities, along with introducing more efficient and accurate practices

- Ensure that strategies, plans and other best practices laid out are followed by the team

- Promote a “player-oriented” approach and help achieve a high-quality experience for the players

- Report high impact or complex bugs and provide actionable feedback to improve the quality of the game for players

- Evaluate and adopt the latest and best practices from other teams, departments or the industry

- Build partnerships/Collaborate with QV partners, development, production, and design teams

- Provide progress and status updates through reporting and verbal communication, where needed

- Work with multiple teams to drive features through project milestones

- Mentor and support team members with QA deliverables and implementation of quality strategies

- Drive improvements and knowledge sharing across teams

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in software development, quality assurance, or game design

- Understanding of quality assurance processes, workflows, and defect and task tracking software

- Familiarity with bug prevention and containment strategies

- Game Domain knowledge, with inclination towards playing video games for driving end-to-end quality plan throughout the game/pack cycle

- Ability to Create test plans, design test strategies and communicate them effectively

- Passion for creating high-quality player experiences

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health insurance

- Retirement savings plan

- Paid time off

- Family leaves

- Complimentary games

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life.

## Skills

### Required
- software development
- quality assurance
- game design
- quality assurance processes
- defect and task tracking software
- bug prevention and containment strategies
- test planning
- test strategies
- communication