New 
Software Quality Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Studios Quality team at Xbox Game Studios is looking for a Software Quality Engineer who is passionate, systems thinking, customer centric, experienced individual to make an impact on AAA+ titles. You're a people first, proactive long-term thinker, who strives to drive improvements into the people, processes, technologies, and foster a quality mindset for the team and studio partners. You'll be a critical team member executing daily to improve process efficiency and better detect, measure, and prevent issues/bugs from making it into the game titles you support. In this role, you will communicate the state of quality, and any risks, back to the product stakeholders for both released title and titles currently in development. At the core you'll be responsible for owning and iterating the comprehensive quality strategy for your features and working closely with quality, development, and production partners to enhance the overall product quality. You'll leverage data and risk analysis to course correct and help guide the team's direction, using information generated by players, monitoring historical trends for insight, and guide the team and our technology to create the right impact at the right time. As you'll be part of the greater Studios Quality team, you will also be part of a larger community of Quality Analysts and Engineers, Software Engineers, and Data Scientists supporting proactive and reactive quality for world class products across Xbox Game Studios.
Responsibilities Drive the "end to end" quality and test strategy for multiple large, complex features within a title that releases quickly and regularlyCollaborate with software and data engineers to design, create, and leverage data insight, existing automation, and tooling solutions to accelerate the team's ability to achieve test coverage and provide insight on product quality and functionalityDevelop manual test approaches for owned features where necessary, and partner with offsite test teams to collaborate on execution.Take successes and failures and proactively share them with the broader Studios Quality organization, driving up the capabilities of the larger teamBuild collaborative, lasting relationships across disciplines and organizational boundaries.Help build and foster a Quality first mindset | |