Senior SDET

QUALITY ASSURANCE

What We Do

The Quality Assurance team owns the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of all products and functions across Epic. Our team works closely with developers and production to ensure the best possible user experience for our community and customers.

What You'll Do

The Developer Experience and Efficiency Team within the Unreal Engine organization at Epic Games is responsible for improving the efficiency of any component of the developer experience in Unreal, Fortnite, and UEFN. From syncing to testing your project in-game, any impediment to efficiency is on the table, from short wins to long-term order-of-magnitude gains or paradigm shifts. As a Software Development Programmer in Test, you are a QA expert and developer who thrives and excels at delivering results at scale. Your primary role will be building testing and reporting tools, automation frameworks, and collaborating to identify areas suitable for automated testing. You will develop test framework features to enable developers and testers to author automated tests. We are looking for teammates who are passionate about upstream technical testing while developing tools, automation, and capacity programming to raise the quality bar while advancing your technical capabilities and knowledge.

In this role, you will

• Own efforts to optimize and streamline existing automated test suites, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and efficient test execution
• Refactor and clean up existing test automation codebase to improve readability, maintainability, and scalability
• Design, develop, and maintain test tools and automation frameworks for our internal suite of developer tools. Develop, assess, and improve performance tests for various workflows, including editor and runtime performance
• Enhance and maintain dashboards (Tableau, Grafana, or Horde Analytics) to monitor key performance metrics
• Plan, design and implement complex test scenarios, including multi-user distributed automated testing
• Enable developers, testers, and analysts to author automation test scripts, implement automation best practices, and help lay the foundation of scalable automated test solutions
• Build relationships and partnerships with internal customers and stakeholders across Epic

What we're looking for

• Proven experience owning design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance of automated tests and frameworks. Experience with performance testing frameworks is a plus
• Experience creating intuitive and visually appealing dashboards to present complex data in a clear and actionable format. Experience with Tableau/Grafana is a plus
• Proficiency in scripting and object-oriented programming languages for test automation. Experience with C++, C# or Python is a big plus
• Good knowledge of how game engines work; Experience with either UE5/Unity or a custom internal game engine
• Experience with end-to-end, functional, and unit tests
• Experience working collaboratively with team members on a common codebase using version control tools (e.g., Perforce, Git)
• Knowledge or experience with build and test orchestration tools (e.g., Jenkins) and gameplay scripting systems are a plus
• Knowledge or experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) is a plus
• Games industry experience is a plus

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).