Senior QA Analyst

Black Tree Gaming Ltd. is the owner of NexusMods.com, a website with a user base of over 55 million users and serving over 1.8 billion pageviews a year. Based in the heart of Southernhay, Exeter - we are a computer game loving collaborative team solving large scale challenges with the latest technology.

We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our team in Exeter, UK. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in agile software development and driving quality at all phases of the software delivery lifecycle. You will work closely alongside our Development, Product and Design teams to implement test solutions that deliver quality to our users. You should be comfortable working across stacks, with an eagerness to learn new technologies as required. Experience of computer gaming is not essential.

At Nexus Mods the most important thing is that you bring a problem solving mindset and a positive attitude to the team. In this role we also expect you to be self-driven and able to deliver results whilst performing the usual roles expected of a QA Engineer.

We are ideally looking for someone to join our team who is interested in progressing their career and over time transition into becoming a team leader / head of department and help us build a QA team.

Salary

£40,000 - £55,000 a year, depending on your experience level.

Other Information

• This is a full-time office-based position from our office in Exeter, UK.
• We will provide high-spec hardware for you to work from in the office.
• We may be able to assist with relocation expenses and logistics.

Responsibilities

• Manual end-to-end testing of sprint issues.
• Ensure that all critical user journeys and interactions are thoroughly tested.
• Participate in user acceptance testing, alongside the Product Manager.
• Implement automated end-to-end testing on our CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain a comprehensive regression test suite to ensure ongoing quality.
• Implement automated UI tests to monitor user experience issues.
• Improve processes around test data, users and scenarios for ease of testing.
• Ownership of high-level strategic QA standards for all of our services.

Requirements

The role will involve all of the following, so we would expect you to demonstrate experience in these areas in a resume or portfolio of previous work:

• Experience in designing, writing and executing test plans for websites.
• Experience with API Testing (particularly GraphQL).
• Experience with BDD.
• Experience working with Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS.
• Experience working with JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Knowledge of automated testing tools (particularly Playwright).
• Strong communication skills.

Bonus Skills

• Experience using GitLab (or similar) for issue tracking.
• Experience testing desktop applications.
• Experience with TDD and DDD.
• Experience configuring automated test suites on CI/CD pipelines.
• An understanding of games modding and knowledge of Nexus Mods.
• A sense of humour.
• A love of computer games.

Benefits

We are based in the heart of Exeter, less than 10 minutes walk away from Exeter Central station and 5 minutes from the main high street with all its shops, restaurants and the beautiful cathedral grounds.

• We work a 4-day week in the office at 32 hours, with no reduction in pay.
• An allowance of 25 Euros each month to spend on video games, to play in your own personal time, that can be unrelated to work (any games you need to do your job are bought by the business!)
• We provide BUPA healthcare for you and your family.
• We have an Employee Assistance Programme.
• We provide a very flexible training budget.
• Snacks, drinks, gaming system, a ping pong table and all the things you'd expect from a modern office.
• Regular social events throughout the year. Participation is optional!

Diversity and Inclusion

We celebrate diversity and want you to bring your whole self to work.

• Supporting an incredible community of tens of millions of users, we thrive on engaging as many views as possible to improve our platform. We see no reason why our culture should be any different.
• We undertake Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging training to be more aware of diverse views and of our own biases to make sure we don't leave anyone feeling unheard or left behind.