QA Engineer II ( Gaming)

 Role: QA Engineer II (Gaming)

Location : Los Angeles ,CA (Hybrid)

Duration: 8 months+

JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities

• Apply established QA strategy and processes to plan, coordinate, execute, monitor, and report on compatibility testing for an assigned League initiative, system, or release surface.
• Plan and monitor risk-based coverage across League client and game configurations, PC hardware, operating systems, drivers, peripherals, display modes, input devices, graphics settings, and performance tiers; design and execute appropriate functional, regression, exploratory, installation, update, configuration, performance, and recovery testing.
• Investigate complex compatibility issues and communicate scope, severity, reproducibility, player impact, environmental variables, coverage gaps, patch risks, and mitigation options.
• Partner with engineering, platform, and player-support teams to improve diagnostics, crash and performance analysis, testability, automation, environment provisioning, and compatibility metrics.
• Coordinate internal, remote, and external QA resources; mentor junior QA engineers; and contribute reusable test assets, standards, and craft improvements across League QA.
• Track basic compatibility and performance quality trends, communicate quality concerns early, and advocate for player experience and quality acceptance criteria throughout development.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of software quality assurance experience, including leadership of QA efforts for a complex product, feature set, or live-service release.
• Experience with compatibility, systems, hardware, client, or platform-focused testing, including risk-based test planning and coverage strategy.
• Experience investigating defects across hardware, operating systems, drivers, peripherals, graphics, input, or performance conditions and translating findings into clear release decisions.
• Experience working with distributed or external QA teams, operating independently, managing ambiguity, and influencing decisions across disciplines; strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience testing live-service games, especially PC games with frequent patches and a broad range of player hardware configurations.
• Experience with platform certification, device labs, hardware compatibility, driver validation, peripheral testing, crash analysis, performance tooling, telemetry, test automation, or CI validation.
• Experience mentoring QA engineers or contributing to QA standards, tooling, and reusable test assets.
• ISTQB, ICAgile, or comparable QA certification.