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We Are EA

We entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is hard work. That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry.

The Challenge Ahead

As a Quality Engineering Architect (QEA), you will be working with large scale online software systems, performing architecture assessments, creating system test strategies and test plans, reviewing test results, and eventually providing a comprehensive risk assessment for game launches. You will be responsible for understanding the full end to end gaming system by working directly with the game development team and server teams. The systems include multiple platforms, shared services and custom game services. They work with cross-game, cross-platform gamer networks tailored to consoles, PC and mobile platforms. These large scale, always-on services power EA?s games that is experienced by tens of millions of monthly active players. This role has an opportunity to do architecture evaluation of server-side components that deliver new functionality to the platform, as well as work on regular improvements to the systems to keep them at top notch performance.

What a QEA Does At EA

As a QEA, your primary responsibility will be to lead the end to end software architecture review, test strategy and test plan of our new and existing games, and evaluate the game launch risks in terms of stability, scalability and performance of the backend systems. Most of your time will be spent working directly with game teams and evaluating the performance, reliability, and scalability of the back end. You will also spend time working with engineering product managers to innovate new features and tools to support EA's digital business and reduce technical debt associated with legacy systems through innovation. Additionally, you will be a champion for best practices within the engineering team.

The Next Great EA QEA Also Needs To Have

? Bachelors? degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
? Very good understanding of performance, latency and throughput in distributed systems
? 7+ years hands-on coding (C++/C#/Java) and software architecture design experience (App servers, DB, LB, AWS/GAE/other cloud hosted solutions)
? Experience with performance testing and load testing
? Hands-on coding, script reviews, tools development, performance analysis and debugging of test failures
? Strong expertise working on software services at large scale and high traffic online systems
? Team leadership, management, and/or mentoring experience
? Experience working within the games and/or mobile industries
? First-hand experience with all phases of the product development lifecycle, including requirement definition, architecture, technical design, development, coding, testing, product release, and live operation
? Exceptional analytical and creative problem solving skills; solution oriented individual
? Good communication skills
? Experience working on distributed teams across global
? Love to play games

We Thought You Might Also Want to Know

As part of the application process we might ask you to take on a practical work test. The position is permanent and applications will be selected continuously. Apply via email with a combined CV and introduction letter in English.

Detta är en jobbannons med titeln "Quality Engineering Architect" hos företaget Ea digital illusions ce ab och publicerades på webbjobb.io den 9 december 2014 klockan 20:47.

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