IT Quality and Testing Professionals
17 minutes ago
£30000–£36000 yearly
Full-time
Watford
We are looking for a Quality and Testing Professional to make sure our VR games are stable, comfortable, performant and fun across headsets and platforms. VR has a much higher quality bar than flat-screen games, because bugs can cause motion sickness, discomfort and broken immersion as well as crashes. You will own test strategy and delivery, and use AI to test faster and find problems earlier. Roles and Responsibilities • Define test strategy, plans and quality gates for each milestone (prototype, alpha, beta, certification, live)., • Estimate test effort, prioritise by risk and report quality status to producers, designers and engineering leads., • Maintain traceability between design requirements, test cases and defects., • Test gameplay, UI/UX, controls, hand tracking, controller input and multiplayer or social features., • Run regression, smoke, integration and exploratory testing on every build., • Verify save data, progression, in-app purchases, online services and backend integrations., • Evaluate comfort and motion sickness risk: locomotion methods, field of view, camera motion, snap and smooth turning, vignetting., • Test tracking, calibration, guardian/boundary behaviour, room-scale and seated modes., • Check spatial audio, haptics, interaction physics and object scale for immersion., • Test accessibility options such as one-handed play, seated mode, subtitles and comfort settings., • Run load, soak and stress tests on standalone and PC-tethered headsets and on multiplayer servers., • Profile memory, CPU/GPU use and loading times, working with engineers on bottlenecks., • Test across headsets, firmware versions, PC hardware tiers and store requirements (e.g., Meta Quest, SteamVR, PlayStation VR2, Pico)., • Run store certification and compliance checks and manage submission readiness., • Write clear, reproducible bug reports with video, logs and repro steps., • Triage defects, hold daily defect calls and track fixes to closure., • Report defect density, escape rate and fix-verification metrics.