Games QA Engineer

Job Description

Miniclip is looking for a Games QA Engineer (Games Tester focused on automation and Tools development) to hire in our Games Development Studio in Tagus Park (Oeiras, Portugal). This is a full-time, permanent position. Please apply only if you have the right to work in Portugal.

What will you be doing at Miniclip?

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• As part of the QA Team, the main responsibility is to ensure the good quality of all 1st party games published by Miniclip.
• Develop test automation scripts and tools to support all new game releases/updates and schedule timely quality assurance and testing.
• Follow up on regression automation running on Local Device Farm and identify, report and/or fix possible detected issues.
• Act as a liaison between development teams, producers and all internal teams involved in the release of a product.
• Help in developing, maintaining and improving the roadmap of test automation for all releases and updates.
• Identify needs and develop test automation tools that will improve ROI on testing feature development.
• Create clear and insightful test automation documentation to provide visibility over tools and automation pipeline flows.
• Monitoring game statistics, customer feedback channels, and competing products to constantly question assumptions and make adjustments to our games.
• Be part of Miniclip’s quality assurance team, define new test automation approaches and come up with new ideas to improve automation processes and procedures.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for a social, hard-working person who enjoys working in a team with other people and is passionate and dedicated about his/her work. The ideal candidate will be strongly skilled in the following:

• Self-motivated, with excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate complex game development project issues.
• Confident in exploring new approaches and in communicating with different teams and departments.
• Experience in working with teams across different functions and geographical locations.
• Fluent in English.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Close attention to detail.
• Technical insight on a wide range of physical devices from different manufacturers (Apple, Samsung, etc.) and operating systems (iOS, Android, etc.).
• 1 – 3 years of experience in the QA and testing fields of game and/or entertainment products and services.
• BA or BSc degree or equivalent.
• Fluent in at least one programming or scripting language (extra points for programming skills in Lua)
• Good knowledge about software tools for CI/CD workflow automation (ex.: Jenkins).

About Miniclip

Miniclip is a global leader in digital games and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. It distributes highly engaging games to a global audience of over 400 million monthly and 70 million daily active users across mobile, social, and online platforms. Operating in 10 countries, Miniclip develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 17 studios. 

Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, Miniclip has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the digital games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games globally. 

To date, Miniclip’s studios and companies, which have generated more than 8 billion downloads, include the following digital games: 8 Ball Pool™, Subway Surfers™, Golf Battle™, Football Strike™, Carrom Pool™, OSM - Online Soccer Manager™, Football Rivals ™, Pure Sniper ™, Puzzle Page ™, Head Ball 2™, Motorsport Manager™, Darts of Fury™, Ultimate Golf™, Mini Football ™, Triple Match 3D ™ and Agar.io™. 

For more information, visit https://miniclip.com/