GRAM GAMES

Responsibility

• we’ll never ask you to abandon your craft and just focus on managing others or workload
• if you are motivated by autonomy, constant improvement, collaboration and the sense of belonging, this is the job for you
• they will manage high priority features while ensuring timely delivery against production timescales and costs
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• standard bearer for QA, representing discipline in planning, weekly meetings, daily scrums and other team Agile practices
• the QA Engineer divides their time between delegation of test plans to testers, and performing testing directly themselves
• solve complex problems in effective, efficient and resourceful ways. Ability to break problems down
• promote cross-discipline knowledge sharing, e.g. work with code on how to best QA network traffic
• they'll contribute to a team of around 20 multidisciplinary members, and will own the test strategy for features of moderate complexity
• ensures a positive, professional and collaborative team environment is maintained
• the QA Engineer contributes to a team of around 20 multidisciplinary members , and owns the test strategy for features of moderate complexity
• works with outsource QA team to achieve best possible results, including creating documentation, mentoring where appropriate and fielding questions
• execute functional tests in a grey box environment, developing understanding of game code and logic to push quality further up the development cycle
• they’ll have experience being embedded within development teams, and a good understanding of how to deploy a range of test techniques to get their work tested
• flexibility in responding to business priorities
• the successful candidate will posses in-depth QA, technical and project expertise, and will have full ownership of quality across designated game areas
• actively own test areas and ensure defects are entered. This will include taking on features which are technically or practically more challenging leading to higher risk
• gram Games is the studio behind some of the most popular titles like 1010!, Six! and Merge Dragons! We also released Merge Magic! and have more awesome projects in the pipeline
• we do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, enabling you to have an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy and impact
• at Gram everyone is expected to have a razor-sharp focus on what creates tangible impact: impact on their team, impact on their work environment and impact on the overall company strategy

Requirements

• enthusiasm for learning new technical and QA skills
• passion for gaming and a positive outlook
• skills, Knowledge and Abilities
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• awareness of the mobile games market on iOS and Android
• good understanding of client/server testing and importance of metadata
• strong initiative and ability to pro-actively self-manage; always looking for new and better solutions to existing challenges
• familiarity with source control, such as GIT or SVN
• excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, backed up with a proactive approach to knowledge sharing and best practise
• has worked with development environments such as Xcode, Visual Studio, Android SDK, Unity etc
• experienced with agile methodologies
• expert understanding of software QA and games development practices and terminology
• adept at costing, time estimation, risk analysis, and root cause analysis
• previous experience with bug databases, preferably JIRA
• ability to carry out Telemetry testing
• experience using a test management system, preferably TestRail
• familiarity with iOS and Android operating systems and hardware
• understanding of the SDLC and Change Management
• ideally worked within games as a service products, understands the concept of ‘Live QA’
• aware of the defect metrics the QA team should be tracking to measure success
• understanding of how software architecture influences the amount of testing required, including optimizing tests that utilize the same code paths. Ability to pair test features

Trade

• software Development
• Software Development

Earnings for position qa engineer

Responsibility

• we'll never ask you to abandon your craft and just focus on managing others or workload
• design, implementation and maintenance of game backend services for live games
• writing robust code to be used in high traffic services
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• monitoring and maintenance of live systems
• developing new features for games
• troubleshooting problems on production environment and on our live systems
• as our project portfolio is growing, we now are looking for a Senior Game Backend Developer to join us in our London offices
• communicating with game teams to define and implement requirements
• developing tools to monitor, troubleshoot and debug systems
• knowledge of real-time multiplayer games and backends
• as a Backend Developer at Gram Games, you'll jump onto one of our largest projects and put yourself right in the center of the action
• the successful candidate will work with the game team to implement new backend features as well as maintaining the current online features
• ideally you will have a high level of game server experience and would have worked on high traffic and high available systems
• gram Games is the studio behind some of the most popular mobile titles in the world like Merge Dragons!, Merge Magic!, 1010! and we have more awesome projects in the pipeline
• we do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, enabling you to have an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy and impact
• at Gram everyone is expected to have a razor-sharp focus on what creates tangible impact: impact on their team, impact on their work environment and impact on the overall company strategy

Requirements

• experience in the gaming industry
• we're looking for someone who…
• experience on concurrency and distributed systems
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• good SQL experience, database design and implementation skills
• has a deep, wide, demonstrated knowledge in various areas of game programming like gameplay, graphics, UI, tools etc
• good experience with Docker and Linux
• has previous experience working with mobile games
• ability to design fail-proof systems and operating them with minimal downtime
• has previously shipped at least one product in a team environment
• ability to communicate with game teams to define and implement requirements
• has a solid understanding of the Unity 3D game engine
• previous experience on high available and high throughput systems
• has strong experience using C#
• good knowledge of functional testing and load testing
• has a solid understanding the life cycle of a game project both development and live operations
• is very comfortable with modern version control systems
• has at least 5+ years experience as a game developer

Responsibility

• we’ll never ask you to abandon your craft and just focus on managing others or workload
• if you are motivated by autonomy, constant improvement, collaboration and the sense of belonging, this is the job for you
• as Principal QA Engineer you will be owning the most challenging and technical test plans the project has to offer
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• you’ll have the experience and communication skills to extract the relevant information from any project department, working with server and infrastructure developers on non-player facing features, tools and framework updates
• this role represents a craft leader who is the epitome of best practice and craft excellence; they evangelise, mentor, present and teach practical skills directly to both QA team members and the wider project team
• gram Games is the studio behind some of the most popular titles like 1010!, Six! and Merge Dragons! We also released Merge Magic! and have more awesome projects in the pipeline
• we do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, enabling you to have an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy and impact
• at Gram everyone is expected to have a razor-sharp focus on what creates tangible impact: impact on their team, impact on their work environment and impact on the overall company strategy

Requirements

• comprehensive understandings of QA processes, testing terminology and games development methodology, particularly Agile practices and concepts
• experience working in games-as-a-service projects
• work closely with feature authors to identify bugs and risks early, focusing on bug prevention instead of retrospective detection
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• experience testing in an embedded environment in a cross-functional development team
• use grey-box test techniques to run technical tests by utilising network tools, platform tools, internal server tools and Unity tools
• grasp of technical challenges for mobile games QA e.g
• identify opportunities for tooling and debug at the right time during development to enable testing of ‘under the hood’ features
• apply test techniques like equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis and combinatorial matrices to make test plans efficient and effective
• can leverage source control access to read code and commit content to inform your test strategies, detect bugs early etc
• create and maintain test suites, cases and runs, as well as focused exploratory sessions and other test types
• review technical specs, identifying risks and posing incisive questions early in development
• identify and present opportunities for new process improvements, tools and techniques to the wider team
• own the test plans for technical features and tools from end-to-end: test planning, analysis, execution, control and closure
• hardware & device fragmentation, server/client architectures, metadata & data versioning, asset systems, metrics & analytics, payments, social features, experiments/cohorts, logging solutions, etc
• build relationships across the project team to evangelise, educate and communicate the QA team vision and identity
• translate technical topics and risks to stakeholders using language they can understand and digest
• proven examples of generating simple test tools: e.g. command-line tools, automated spreadsheets, automated dashboards, Slack bot

Trade

• information Design & Documentation
• Information Design & Documentation

Responsibility

• london
• hybrid Working
• we are looking for a Product Manager to join us at Gram Games
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• as a member of the product team, you will be instrumental in keeping the ball rolling for your team
• the ideal candidate must relish a new challenge and has acute analytical skills and an in-depth understanding of free-to-play games
• working collaboratively with a range of disciplines to drive results and outcomes
• working with data to help validate/invalidate hypotheses about the game economy
• assessing the impact of potential improvements or changes on the game
• effectively communicating with different stakeholders & teams & offices
• above all, flexibility and adaptability are key
• in this role, you will be responsible for helping to navigate a full free-to-play business model, and for discussing, advocating for, and helping determine which strategic elements are needed for the titles to be an ongoing success
• gram is a data-driven company but this role has a key human element, as well; you need to be able to help drive and motivate team members across all disciplines and to curate a positive and productive team culture
• ultimately, the ideal candidate is a multi-talented, flexible problem-solver who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty
• gram Games is the studio behind some of the most popular mobile titles in the world, like 1010!, Merge Magic and Merge Dragons

Requirements

• love for games and crafting fun and engaging player experiences
• ability to communicate across diverse cultures, languages, work styles, and personalities
• outstanding analytical skills with a focus on data-informed decision making, experimentation design, and data analysis
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• ability to differentiate correlation from causation
• management or mentoring experience
• quantitative modelling skills to estimate the effect of potential ideas and scenarios
• 3+ years of experience in mobile gaming, mobile product management, data analytics, or consulting in either web/fintech/eCommerce/ B2C sectors
• experience with multivariate testing and experimentation
• ability to figure out how to structure a problem, define what success looks like, identify workable solutions, and build product specifications that clearly describe how the solution works
• being a self-starter: proactively identifying problems, building consensus, and driving the team toward solutions

Responsibility

• we’ll never ask you to abandon your craft and just focus on managing others or workload
• if you are motivated by autonomy, constant improvement, collaboration and the sense of belonging, this is the job for you
• they will manage high priority features while ensuring timely delivery against production timescales and costs
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• the QA Engineer divides their time between delegation of test plans to testers, and performing testing directly themselves
• they'll contribute to a team of around 20 multidisciplinary members, and will own the test strategy for features of moderate complexity
• the successful candidate will posses in-depth QA, technical and project expertise, and will have full ownership of quality across designated game areas
• gram Games is the studio behind some of the most popular titles like 1010!, Six! and Merge Dragons! We also released Merge Magic! and have more awesome projects in the pipeline
• they’ll have experience being embedded within development teams, and a good understanding of how to deploy a range of test techniques to get their work tested
• we do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, enabling you to have an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy and impact
• at Gram everyone is expected to have a razor-sharp focus on what creates tangible impact: impact on their team, impact on their work environment and impact on the overall company strategy

Requirements

• standard bearer for QA, representing discipline in planning, weekly meetings, daily scrums and other team Agile practices
• solve complex problems in effective, efficient and resourceful ways. Ability to break problems down
• promote cross-discipline knowledge sharing, e.g. work with code on how to best QA network traffic
  Show more +7
• ensures a positive, professional and collaborative team environment is maintained
• works with outsource QA team to achieve best possible results, including creating documentation, mentoring where appropriate and fielding questions
• execute functional tests in a grey box environment, developing understanding of game code and logic to push quality further up the development cycle
• flexibility in responding to business priorities
• actively own test areas and ensure defects are entered. This will include taking on features which are technically or practically more challenging leading to higher risk
• skills, Knowledge and Abilities
• good understanding of client/server testing and importance of metadata

Trade

• software Development
• Software Development