Quality Analyst
Principle
Recruitment Agency
About the job
- 6-month contract
- £90,000 per annum + bonus + paid annual leave & bank holidays
- Remote within the UK - 40 hours per week We are hiring a Quality Analyst to join a leading global technology company working on a large-scale social VR and gaming platform. This is a hands-on QA position supporting a mature, live consumer product across VR, mobile and Windows desktop environments. You will act as a key quality owner, running weekly build verification and regression testing and ensuring issues are identified and clearly communicated before releases reach users. This role is particularly suited to someone from a gaming, VR/AR, interactive product or large-scale consumer application background who enjoys hands-on testing and has excellent attention to detail. What you'll be doing
- Run weekly smoke, regression and end-to-end testing across release and canary builds
- Test products across VR, mobile and Windows desktop platforms
- Verify builds and provide clear go/no-go release recommendations
- Reproduce crashes, stability issues and performance regressions
- Produce highly detailed bug reports with clear, repeatable reproduction steps
- Test mobile applications, including Android devices
- Sideload builds and capture device logs using ADB/logcat
- Test interactive experiences including social, multiplayer and user-generated content
- Create and maintain test plans, test cases and release checklists
- Triage bugs, assess severity and work closely with engineering teams
- Identify patterns and opportunities to improve existing testing processes What we're looking for
- 5+ years' professional QA/software testing experience
- Background testing games, VR/AR, interactive products or large-scale consumer applications
- Strong hands-on mobile testing experience
- Experience testing Android-based devices
- Experience sideloading builds and using ADB/logcat
- Strong regression, smoke and release testing experience
- Excellent bug reporting and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to provide precise, repeatable reproduction steps
- Experience creating and maintaining test plans and test cases
- Comfortable taking ownership and working independently within fixed release schedules Nice to have
- VR application or headset testing experience
- Experience with Unity
- Multiplayer, social or UGC platform testing
- Cloud gaming/application streaming
- Performance and memory profiling
- Python or test automation exposure
- Live-service/Live Ops experience Why this role? You'll work across VR, mobile and Windows platforms, with exposure to emerging capabilities including GenAI. The position provides direct product impact-you'll effectively act as the final human quality check on builds before they reach production-and considerable autonomy over the testing process. Please apply directly to be considered. Shortlisting soon!
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