At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
QUALITY ASSURANCEWhat We Do
The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.
What You'll Do
Our SDETs are first and foremost software engineers; they act as force multipliers for quality efforts across the business by providing tools, frameworks, coaching, and education. As we continue to grow a world-class technical organization within Quality Assurance, we are looking for a SDET Manager with proven leadership and test engineering vision for our Fortnite Ecosystem team.
In this role, you will
- Develop automation frameworks from the ground up, making decisions on what and where to prioritize, while developing team structures necessary to expand your efforts
- Collaborate with QA and Development teams to craft automation processes that are robust, reliable, easy to use, and increase visibility into automated efforts and test augmentation
- Build relationships and partnerships with internal customers and stakeholders across the company
- Run teams teams that impact multiple projects across the Fortnite Ecosystem space
- Mentor, coach, and develop a team of SDETs at various career stages
- Maintain excellent technical practices e.g. refactoring, minimizing technical debt, and unit testing, with a focus on continuous improvement
- Develop tools to assist in tester augmentation, backward compatibility, and performance stability
What we're looking for
- 6+ year of test engineering and automation frameworks
- Excellent leadership skills, including mentorship, planning technical roadmaps, making trade-offs, and prioritization
- Good knowledge of how game engines work; Experience with either UE4/Unity or a custom internal game engine
- Ability to architect solutions for development and QA when solutions do not exist within the space required
- Experience developing systems and tools that enhance the experience or capabilities of internal partner teams
- Experience with automation frameworks and continuous integration systems
- Ability to quickly understand complex tech stacks and find solutions that complement/extend rather than bypass existing investments
- Experience with developing unit testing and integration testing strategies, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development
- Experience with Polyglot development, working between full-stack systems, examples could be something like a Game Engine and an Online Service team, a full stack web application (service and frontend)
- Games industry experience is a plus
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.
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What We Do
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.
