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You'll own quality on medium-complexity projects end to end, and you'll be expected to make the way we test better while you're doing it.\nYou'll plan, prepare and drive your own test strategies independently, take execution from first case to closure, and set up and troubleshoot the environments your testing depends on. You'll spot what isn't working, and you'll change it.\nYour influence won't stop at your own desk. You'll shape how your team tests, and how quality is delivered across the studios in your team's portfolio - sharing what you learn, raising the bar for the people around you, and being the voice that says when something isn't ready to ship.\nIf you want your fingerprints on games played by millions, this is the one.\nResponsibilities\n1. Test Preparation and Planning\nEstimates testing effort independently and plans full test coverage without supervision, using available templates, documentation or prior project material as a starting point.\nApplies risk-based prioritization and optimization when planning, rather than aiming for uniform coverage across all areas.\nWorks effectively on projects that are not fully templatized or documented, filling gaps in available information as needed.\nReviews requirements for completeness and testability, and raises ambiguities before test design begins.\nCompletes planning within the allocated timeframe and raises roadblocks early at project level.\nPlans for uncertain, ambiguous and edge-case scenarios with guidance, and submits the resulting test strategy for review.\nCoordinates with the team to distribute testing tasks and aligns the test plan with adjacent delivery teams.\n2. Test Execution\nProactively identifies, analyses and resolves execution issues, providing assurance that test execution is delivered in line with agreed quality expectations.\nManages own execution progress against the plan, and reprioritizes as build quality, scope or timelines shift.\nSupplements scripted execution with exploratory testing where risk, complexity or thin requirements justify it.\n3. Software and Test Environment Readiness\nSets up and troubleshoots environment issues independently on smaller projects, and does so with guidance on medium to large projects.\nPrepares and maintains the test data needed for planned coverage, including negative and boundary conditions.\nEscalates software and environment issues appropriately and follows them through to resolution.\n4. Defect Detection and Tracking\nApplies best practice to defect analysis and reporting, producing clear, reproducible defect records that contribute to the prevention of latent and recurring issues.\nAssigns severity and priority consistently and investigates far enough to distinguish genuine defects from environment, data or configuration causes.\nTracks defects through to closure, including verification and targeted regression once a fix is delivered.\n5. Test Completion, Review and Improvement\nAnalyses testing outcomes and implements improvements to the overall test approach, directed at successful and repeatable project delivery.\nCompletes test closure activities, including coverage and defect metrics, outstanding risk, and a clear recommendation at sign-off.\nContributes lessons learned to retrospectives and carries agreed actions into subsequent projects rather than leaving them as observations.\n6. Stakeholder Management\nTakes responsibility for the proactive resolution of issues arising from project support tasks and manages stakeholder communication and expectations throughout delivery.\nReports test progress, quality risk and release readiness in terms the audience can act on, technical or otherwise.\nRepresents the quality position honestly under delivery pressure, escalating where risk exceeds what the project has agreed to accept.\n7. Standards and Process Adherence\nAdheres to established testing standards and processes and actively identifies opportunities to optimize them.\nKeeps test assets and documentation current so that work is auditable and can be picked up by others.\n8. Leadership\nAdapts to changing project conditions and keeps the team aligned to objectives, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing and skills growth across all competencies at this proficiency level.\nLeads through influence rather than formal authority, building agreement on quality decisions across testing, development and delivery.\nShares knowledge of past issues and their resolutions so that solutions are reused rather than rediscovered.\nMentors less experienced testers informally, reviewing their work and coaching on approach rather than simply correcting output.\nAssesses projects critically and proposes new test strategies and approaches where they will improve outcomes.\n9. Test Consulting\nCreates the test strategy and test approach for assigned projects and communicates them clearly to delivery stakeholders.\nAdvises on the testing implications of design, scope and timeline decisions early enough to influence them.\n10. Load and Performance Testing\nExecutes load and performance tests with guidance from senior testers and specialists, and interprets the results with support.\nUnderstands the performance characteristics and thresholds relevant to the systems under test, and flags degradation against them.\nQualifications\nIT Related degree or diploma\nMinimum of 2 years experience in Testing\nISTQB Foundation\nUnderstand the SDLC\nKnowledge of the following tools is a plus\nJira\nConfluence \nMonday.com\nPostman\nSQL\nJmeter\nClaude\n Equal Opportunities Statement\nGames Global is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, experiences, and communities. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, neurodiversity or any other protected status. Our dedication to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion is clearly reflected across all our teams. 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