Blizzard Entertainment

Team Name:

Unannounced Project

Job Title:

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Requisition ID:

R025196

Job Description:

At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic characters that are beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations – only made possible by building a work environment that nurtures the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to join an exciting unannounced game. If you are passionate about meaningfully contributing to crafting immersive, intuitive user experiences and delighting players, then this could be the ideal role for you.

A Senior Software Development Engineer in Test plays a crucial role in leading and supporting quality assurance programs and initiatives across the team. They conceptualize, architect, and implement medium- to large-scale technical solutions to enhance quality efficiency while optimizing costs. The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test helps implement metrics to identify trends and delivers insightful reports to enhance software quality. They also collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications. They are also test advocates, share best practices, and stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in software development.

Join us to help craft a new, unannounced game for Blizzard, hand in hand with our creative, art, and other tech teams.

Responsibilities:

• Innovate by conceptualizing, architecting, leading, and maintaining the implementation of sophisticated technical solutions (such as frameworks, API integrations, and tools) to enhance quality efficiency while optimizing execution costs.
• Implement automation, tools metrics, and reports, and analyze test data and outcomes to discern trends, used by development teams.
• Be a role model with confirmed coding skills, an innovative attitude, and the ability to encourage those around you.
• Demonstrate ability to debug and resolve most issues within their domain and pinpoint root causes.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with engineers and cross-functional teams to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Create awareness of current/potential future problems and emerging solutions, and suggest best practices to ensure software quality, reliability, and availability.
• Help others develop appropriate knowledge and skills through mentoring, training, guidance, and constructive feedback.
• Actively contribute to knowledge sharing by disseminating innovative ideas, effective solutions, streamlined processes, and industry best practices within the team and throughout the company, thereby contributing to creating cutting-edge and compelling products.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in quality engineering and continuously improve engineering skills.
• Be proactive on tackling and working in tech stacks and initiatives that are outside of your area of expertise.
• Write and maintain comprehensive documentation about tools and frameworks you create.

Minimum requirements:

• Experience in the architecture and creation of automation frameworks, test harnesses, and/or QA-focused tools.
• Extensive software development experience.
• Good knowledge of Unity, C#, and scripting languages like Python.
• Experience writing tests for Unity-based games.
• Experience with mobile device farms used for testing (e.g. AWS Device Farm, Kobiton, SauceLabs, etc).
• Experience with mobile automation frameworks like Appium.
• Experience integrating and building automation solutions in CI/CD with Jenkins.
• Experience with observability tools, like Splunk or Grafana both for telemetry integration and dashboard creation.
• Experience working in Cloud environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to balance multiple tasks.
• A mindset for growth and development.
• A passion for games.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with AWS Device Farm.
• Experience with performance and stress testing.
• Familiarity with containers and docker.
• Experience working with a large code base.
• Experience in Kubernetes.
• Experience working with client/server game systems.
• Knowledge about communication protocols like gRPC.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.