About us:

Project Archer is an Augmented Reality studio based in the Seattle area. We are a team of engineers, designers, innovators and creators dedicated to paving the way for augmented reality applications in the retail space. Our focus is on functional use cases that merge diverse data streams and personalized information with specific physical locations to create productive and entertaining immersive real-world shopping experiences.

What you’ll do:

• Drive testing for large and complex applications.
• Work with Production to collaborate on when features need to be tested within established deadlines.
• Creatively advocating for world class customer experiences while working with the reality of resource constraints
• Build, manage, and help mentor a team of up to five installation managers, software development engineers and internal QA testers.
• Coordinate with external test partners to manage an external test team of up to 20 QA testers.
• Ensure test plans, test cases, test execution, and test reports are delivered in a timely manner.
• Be the primary tester for several key feature areas of the application.
• Ensure the Test Team’s work is prioritized appropriately, even when the Test Team gets pulled in multiple directions at once.
• Learn how to use any tools needed to ensure areas of ownership are tested successfully. Examples include Unity, Perfmon, localization test tools, game debugging tools, etc.
• Communicate successfully with external partners as needed.
• Work with Studio Leads to improve the studio test infracture and adapt it to the needs of each phase of the project.
• Write test plans for several major feature areas. This includes collaborating with the design, engineering, art, and production teams to understand the spec, even if design documents are not complete.
• Drive test cases for areas of ownership. Ensure that our external test partners have all information necessary to get necessary tests written at the appropriate time.

What you’ll bring to the team:

• 7+ years of experience as a Software Test Engineer or a Games QA with test ownership of several major feature areas.
• You have managed at least three permanent, full time employees and/or at least 5 contract QA team members for at least a year.
• 4+ years of experience writing test cases and test plans for multiple titles
• You have experience successfully managing tasks in environments with tight deadlines
• You have good communication skills and are comfortable working in a highly-collaborative environment.
• You have managed external test teams.
• You have shipped at least one large game title (PC, console, or mobile) or an interactive application of similar scale.

Bonus points:

• You’ve shipped a modern Unity title.
• Some basic C#, JavaScript, or Python scripting.
• A good understanding of PC hardware.
• You have worked in the VR or AR field.

As a Project Archer team member you’ll:

Continue to foster our environment built on our three pillars of success; contribution, collaboration and self-motivation. As a self-directed member of our growing team, you will get the chance to help shape the future with passionate like-minded engineers.