QA Engineer

Our client is looking for a QA Engineer to join their team. Duration - 6 months Location - UK Remote We are looking for a QA Engineer to test the builds of a large UGC VR application and help keep every weekly release stable across the surfaces it ships on. In this role you will be the dedicated quality owner for a mature Unity-based social VR runtime (Horizon Unity Runtime). It ships as a single product natively on Meta Quest headsets, and on mobile and PC via cloud streaming. The product is in keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode: change is kept to a minimum, so every fix that does ship has to be right. You will work alongside the runtime engineers, release ship captains and on-call rotations, testing nightly, stable and release-candidate builds, verifying fixes before they are picked to a release branch, and catching regressions in the most-visited worlds before they reach users. Responsibilities Run smoke and regression test passes on nightly, stable and release-candidate builds, and report a clear go / no-go signal to the release ship captain Verify launch-blocking fixes in per-fix clone builds and on the release branch before and after they are picked Test the application in the current set of top-traffic supported worlds, covering core flows such as travel between worlds, avatars, voice, social features and multiplayer sessions Reproduce crashes, hangs, ANRs, out-of-memory kills and performance regressions reported from production, and file actionable bugs with reliable repro steps, device logs and video Test cloud-streamed builds on mobile and PC alongside native Quest builds, and flag surface-specific issues Create and maintain test plans, test cases and release checklists, and keep them current as the supported-world list changes Help triage incoming bug reports: confirm, deduplicate, assess severity and route them to the right on-call rotation Identify repetitive manual checks that could be automated, and contribute to automated test coverage where practical Requirements 5+ years of professional QA experience on games, VR/AR or large-scale consumer applications, or equivalent Hands-on experience testing on Android-based devices, including sideloading builds and capturing logs with adb / logcat Proven experience running regression and release test passes against a fixed release schedule Excellent bug reporting: concise, reproducible reports with clear steps, expected vs. actual results, severity and supporting evidence Experience writing and maintaining test plans and test cases Experience reproducing crashes, stability and performance issues from telemetry or user reports Comfortable working independently, prioritising under release pressure, and communicating risk clearly to engineers and release owners Experience testing VR applications, ideally on Meta Quest headsets Familiarity with Unity, including reading Unity logs and understanding common engine-level failure modes Experience testing multiplayer, social or user-generated-content (UGC) platforms Experience testing cloud game or application streaming Experience with performance and memory profiling tools (e.g. OVR Metrics Tool, Perfetto, Unity Profiler) Scripting or test automation experience (e.g. Python, Unity Test Framework) Experience working in live-service (Live Ops) release processes Healthcare contribution and inclusion in company pension scheme Work laptop and phone 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays Expanding workforce with potential for career progression for top performers. #J-18808-Ljbffr