QA Engineer (Gaming)

Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer

Project Location: Los Angeles ,CA (Hybrid)

Duration: 12+months

Responsibilities

• Work with QA leadership and the CGL team to understand user stories, milestone goals, dependencies, and quality risks.
• Create, maintain, and execute test plans and test cases for core game-loop features and connected player journeys.
• Perform functional, regression, exploratory, integration, and playtest testing across client, services, environments, queues, and gameplay transitions.
• Validate build, environment, account, and configuration readiness for CGL and Chili milestone testing.
• Triage and manage defects, investigate complex issues, and communicate player impact, severity, status, and recommended next steps.
• Coordinate with external QA partners by providing clear test intent, reviewing execution, evaluating evidence, and identifying coverage gaps.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of automated tests and improved testing workflows where appropriate.
• Surface quality risks and readiness concerns to QA and product leadership, including risks created by cross-team dependencies or live maintenance work.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of software QA experience, including experience owning or leading testing efforts for a team, feature, or subsystem.
• Experience creating and executing test plans, managing defect databases, and performing risk analysis.
• Experience testing software that includes client or web interfaces, services, APIs, or other integrated systems.
• Experience collaborating with developers, designers, producers, and other QA professionals throughout the development lifecycle.
• Experience coordinating remote or external testers and providing feedback on testing effectiveness.
• Familiarity with Agile product development, software development workflows, and build or release processes.
• Strong investigation, communication, organization, and follow-through skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working on a live-service competitive PvP game, MOBA, or a similarly interconnected player experience.
• Familiarity with League of Legends, its core gameplay systems, or player onboarding and queue flows.
• Experience testing APIs or services with tools such as Postman, Swagger, SoapUI, or equivalent; familiarity with SQL is a plus.
• Experience with Perforce, Git, test automation tools, scripting, or CI-integrated testing workflows.
• Experience with performance, stability, reliability, compatibility, telemetry, or observability testing.
• Experience supporting milestone playtests, release readiness, launch preparation, or cross-team quality programs.
• ISTQB Foundation, Agile Tester, or comparable testing certification.