QA Engineer [AQ-20915]
Licensed sponsor London, England, United Kingdom Contract Posted 1 hour ago
As a proud partner with Aquent, we are seeking exceptional talent to join a team at the forefront of immersive technology, driving innovation in social experiences. This organization is dedicated to building groundbreaking platforms that connect people in new and meaningful ways, shaping the future of digital interaction.
Make a Real Impact As a QA Engineer
Are you ready to be the dedicated quality owner for a mature, Unity-based social VR application? In this critical role, you will directly influence the stability and reliability of a large, user-generated content (UGC) VR platform, ensuring every weekly release is flawless across multiple surfaces. Your meticulous testing and keen eye for detail will be essential in preventing regressions and delivering a seamless experience to users in the most-visited virtual worlds. This is an opportunity to contribute directly to a product that is already a cornerstone of immersive social interaction, ensuring its continued excellence and user satisfaction.
What You’ll Do
Must-Have Qualifications
Our Client is the largest social media company in the world. They have substantial B2B and B2C advertising and media platforms, as well as a nonprofit initiative. With the mission of bringing people together, they now boast over 2 billion users, and are rapidly developing as they influence the world around us.
Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.
Make a Real Impact As a QA Engineer
Are you ready to be the dedicated quality owner for a mature, Unity-based social VR application? In this critical role, you will directly influence the stability and reliability of a large, user-generated content (UGC) VR platform, ensuring every weekly release is flawless across multiple surfaces. Your meticulous testing and keen eye for detail will be essential in preventing regressions and delivering a seamless experience to users in the most-visited virtual worlds. This is an opportunity to contribute directly to a product that is already a cornerstone of immersive social interaction, ensuring its continued excellence and user satisfaction.
What You’ll Do
- Run comprehensive smoke and regression test passes on nightly, stable, and release-candidate builds, providing clear go/no-go signals to release managers.
- Verify launch-blocking fixes in per-fix clone builds and on the release branch before and after they are picked for integration.
- Thoroughly test the application within top-traffic supported worlds, covering core functionalities such as inter-world travel, avatars, voice communication, social features, and multiplayer sessions.
- Reproduce and meticulously document crashes, hangs, ANRs, out-of-memory kills, and performance regressions reported from production, filing actionable bugs complete with reliable repro steps, device logs, and video evidence.
- Test cloud-streamed builds on mobile and PC alongside native VR builds, proactively identifying and flagging surface-specific issues.
- Create and diligently maintain test plans, test cases, and release checklists, ensuring they remain current as the list of supported worlds evolves.
- Assist in triaging incoming bug reports, confirming, deduplicating, assessing severity, and routing them to the appropriate support or engineering teams.
- Identify repetitive manual checks that are ripe for automation and contribute to expanding automated test coverage wherever practical.
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional QA experience within games, VR/AR, or large-scale consumer applications, or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on experience testing on Android-based devices, including the ability to sideload builds and capture logs using adb and logcat.
- Proven track record of running regression and release test passes effectively against demanding, fixed release schedules.
- Exceptional bug reporting skills, characterized by concise, reproducible reports that include clear steps, expected vs. actual results, severity, and supporting evidence.
- Demonstrated experience in writing and maintaining comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- Proficiency in reproducing crashes, stability issues, and performance regressions based on telemetry or user-reported data.
- Comfort working independently, adept at prioritizing tasks under release pressure, and skilled in clearly communicating risks to engineering teams and release managers.
- Experience testing VR applications, ideally on leading VR platforms.
- Familiarity with Unity, including the ability to read Unity logs and understand common engine-level failure modes.
- Experience testing multiplayer, social, or user-generated-content (UGC) platforms.
- Experience testing cloud game or application streaming services.
- Proficiency with performance and memory profiling tools such as OVR Metrics Tool, Perfetto, or Unity Profiler.
- Scripting or test automation experience (e.g., Python, Unity Test Framework).
- Experience working within live-service (Live Ops) release processes.
Our Client is the largest social media company in the world. They have substantial B2B and B2C advertising and media platforms, as well as a nonprofit initiative. With the mission of bringing people together, they now boast over 2 billion users, and are rapidly developing as they influence the world around us.
Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.
