Job Description

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
For 30 years we've been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.
Join our acclaimed studio, the masterminds behind Atomfall, Zombie Army, and the Sniper Elite series, as we seek a talented QA Project Lead! If you're a seasoned Senior or Lead with a technical flair and the ability to engage with producers and senior management in a dynamic setting, this is the perfect opportunity for you!
In this role, you'll oversee the quality of our projects, ensuring they meet industry-leading standards. Collaborating closely with experienced project leads, you will play a pivotal role in the planning, execution, and monitoring of our initiatives. Your responsibilities will include managing project documentation, coordinating tasks, and upholding the exceptional performance of our testing team on a daily basis.
This exciting opportunity can be based out of either of our studios in Oxford or Warwick, offering flexibility, collaboration, and the chance to work with a world-class team! We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.
We believe in the power of face-to-face collaboration and encourage working from our studios. However, we understand that flexibility matters, so we're open to discussing hybrid options.
Responsibilities:

• Plan, create and ensure the timely execution of the project test plan & test cases.

• Perform assessments of projects with development and production teams to identify all areas requiring testing and provide risk assessments to avoid problems and bottlenecks in the QA process.

• Proactively solve project issues with the help of test teams and management before they impact the project.

• Be an active mentor and role model to your team with direct and efficient communication, leading by example and working on maintaining morale by creating an atmosphere of enthusiasm.

• Communicate the project status to the rest of the leadership team in QA, Production and other stakeholders (EOD, EOW, Release checklists and PVR reports).

• Administer and enforce the quality and consistency of bugs as per the project requirement.

• Maintain and update the project's QA confluence pages as well as documentation for the project's external QA teams.

• Provide performance evaluations & feedback to your test team.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of JIRA and Confluence.

• Expert level knowledge of the development cycle.

• Competence to mentor and lead a team by example.

• Ability to evaluate your team's strengths and weaknesses and apply these to maximize the team's performance.

• Able to analyse the database to draw conclusions on the title's health as well as the team's performance.

• Ability to apply logic and support the test team in narrowing down technical bugs when necessary.

• Capability to effectively prioritize tasks depending on changing circumstances.

• Ability to creatively solve unexpected problems as they may arise.

Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years - one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more... including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Life at Our Oxford HQ
Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.
Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city's train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.
Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!
Inside Rebellion
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
Find out more about us
Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.
If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn't sound quite like you, we're recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we're always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies:
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