Software Test Engineer

Job Title: Software Test Engineer

Duration: 12+ Months(W2 Only)

Location: Redmond, WA 98052

100% Onsite Role

Job Description:

Job Overview:
We are seeking a passionate and detail-oriented QA Tester to join the Minecraft Education (EDU) team. This role focuses on advocating for quality by ensuring new features, content, and experiences deliver a positive and impactful experience to educators and learners. The ideal candidate will bring a user-focused mindset to testing while collaborating across development, support, and content creation teams.



Key Responsibilities:

• Client Architecture Support:
  • Validate new EDU features during development stages.
  • Test compatibility and overlap between EDU and Bedrock platform updates.
  • Identify and report regressions or legacy feature conflicts.
• Content Testing Support:
  • Collaborate with EDU content developers to ensure downloadable worlds meet compliance, functionality, and usability standards.
  • Provide UX feedback for educational content to enhance learning engagement.
• Collaboration with EDU Support:
  • Work with the Support team to triage and replicate customer-reported issues from tickets and social media.
  • ssist in debugging, root cause analysis, and creating actionable bug reports for development teams.
• Test Execution & Planning:
  • Develop test passes based on feature acceptance criteria.
  • Own feature areas and contribute to overall test plan creation.
  • Validate bug fixes and assess risks to surrounding systems.
  • Collaborate across hardware platforms and environments (PC, tablet, console, etc.).
  • dvocate for the user experience with an educational lens, focusing on students, educators, and institutional administrators.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Experience in manual QA testing, including creation and execution of test passes.
• Familiarity with QA processes such as issue reproduction, defect logging, and validation testing.
• Understanding of root cause analysis and ability to assess risk for adjacent features.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills - both in-person and online.
• bility to work across a variety of platforms and technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Minecraft , particularly in gameplay, mechanics, or modding.
• Background in education , teaching , or working with learning technologies.
• Understanding of user experience in classroom or learning environments.
• Exposure to test areas such as:
  • UI/UX
  • ccessibility and compliance
  • Gameplay mechanics
  • Localization and telemetry
  • Multiplayer/networking
  • Web and companion applications

Tools & Technologies (Optional/Helpful):

• Bug tracking and reporting tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira)
• Microsoft Office/Teams for collaboration
• Debug tools (some familiarity helpful, coding/scripting not required)