Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Position Summary

This position is responsible for developing and executing tests on new and existing products to ensure they meet functional, technical, and regulatory compliance and maintain high overall product quality.

Essential Job Functions

• Develop and execute test plans and test scripts for new and existing game themes and operating systems
• Follow all of the SQA Work Instructions on a daily basis
• Submit, track, and assist with escalation, if needed, any product issues found during testing to ensure they are resolved
• Utilize all required databases for SQA functions and testing
• Provide input to the weekly project status report for each assigned project
• Provide detailed Completion Report at the end of each project
• Interface with other members of Product Development in order to effectively communicate and assist with resolution of all reported issues in a timely manner before the gaming product is released
• Understand of software test methodologies/procedures and the overall product development lifecycle
• Reproduce issues, when necessary, in order to assist software development in resolving issues
• Complete hardware testing requests

Other Duties And Responsibilities

• Assist the SQA Department on special projects
• Introduce process improvement initiatives
• Establish key contacts with upstream organizations that have a direct impact on SQA
• Attend OS Dev and Game Dev Code Reviews

Qualifications

• Academic and/or working knowledge of Visual Studio
• Academic and/or work experience with C and/or C++ and/or C#
• Academic and/or working knowledge of Linux/Unix/Windows
• Academic and/or proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook

Qualifications Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred

Required Experience

• 0 - 2 years of relevant SQA work experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Working knowledge of computer operation and principles of computer hardware
• Basic knowledge of real-time embedded systems
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with other team members
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
• Detail-oriented and organized

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus while working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

• Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses.
• As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.
• In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles.
• As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.