Art QA Engineer

TRACE studio creates art content for world-class video games. As experts in 3D, 2D, animation, and UI, we collaborate with Activision Blizzard, Sony, Deep Silver, Gaijin Entertainment, and others to develop a unique art for each game.

Responsibilities:

• working on asset specifications verification: buildings prefabs, environment assets;

• art asset quality control from sources to in-game editor;

• creating and executing manual test scenarios, analyzing test results;

• creating test data and test plans;

• exploratory testing of the maps (blockout levels, lods, collisions/proxy geo, blending, LD, lighting maps, etc);

• creating and updating tests-related documentation;

• participating in test coverage analysis;

• working with technical documentation;

• communicating on daily basis with colleagues from other departments and foreign Client team;

• gathering expertise from co-workers regarding art assets, receiving and collecting knowledge, be able to share knowledge with peers;

• reporting new defects, evaluating fixes, when needed helping colleagues from other departments to reproduce hard bugs;

• suggesting risk mitigation plan for own tasks.

Requirements:

• strong experience with Game Engines (Unity/Unreal Engine or any other proprietary engine), understanding of Game Engine fundamental principles and content system within;

• understanding essential stages of Game Dev processes and QA role in it;

• being able to notice well-hidden details and nuances;

• ability to briefly and precisely describe an issue and formulate feedback;

• 2+ year experience in Manual QA;

• strong communication skills, ability to work in distributed team;

• good written and spoken English (Intermediate +).

Would be a plus:

• passion for video games;

• familiarity with first-person shooters;

• experience working with video game art content;

• successfully delivered projects;

• experience working with Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence), Perforce;

• ability to quickly get acquainted with new software;

• willingness to learn and gain new skills.

What we offer:

• in-office/hybrid/remote work;
• a comfortable office with a fully-equipped kitchen;
• flexible working hours;
• official employment according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation;
• regular pay rise based on your professional growth;
• English and yoga classes right in the office;
• corporate holidays, events, and field trips;
• company’s library, in-house training, and workshops for the staff;
• a playstation, VR, a football, an arcade machine, and board games – all of these to play during breaks or have a nice evening with colleagues :)