Quality Assurance Specialist

Mojang Studios is best known as the creators of Minecraft, but we’re also on a mission – to build a better world through the power of play.
Why play? Well, play is at the heart of everything we do. It’s the blocky backbone of our games, the core of our development philosophy, and even the origin of our name. From the relentless experimentation of our endlessly inspiring community to the classrooms where Minecraft has become an essential teaching tool, play is the bedrock of our existence.
Mojang Studios are looking for a Quality Assurance Specialist who wants to make a big impact on the quality of the titles we are developing, including our flagship title Minecraft, as well as in-development titles. As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you will work side by side with our partners in Studios Quality and directly with producers, developers, designers, content creators and others to create incredible entertainment experiences.
This means you’ll need to help build a strategy that ensures we’ve covered each feature thoroughly and give confidence that it’s ready to be played. To tell our quality story you will leverage a variety of tools and techniques, including automation, internal and external data sources, gameplay telemetry, betas, playtests, player feedback, and hands-on manual inspection and exploration. As the voice of quality, you'll need to effectively communicate the quality of the feature or title to key stakeholders across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
As a Quality Assurance Specialist at Mojang, you will be responsible for:
Improve the testing strategies for feature work developed in Stockholm together with
your QA Leads, and align with the overall Studios Quality strategy.
Strive toward improving communication with stakeholders and maintain relationships
with the Studios Quality team
Playing all Mojang titles, new and old
Identifying, writing up, and validating fixes for bugs
Triaging bug backlogs for both priority and severity
Smoke testing new game builds for stability
Halo testing new features in close conjunction with the dev team
Assisting developers with multiplayer testing and the studio with all-hands testing
Regressing bugs as you see them addressed in the changelog, or as requested by the
dev team.
Providing real-time feedback to developers about the feel, balance, and quality of new
features
Providing feedback to production about the general state of quality in the game



Requirements
Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
A keen attention to detail
Stellar organizational skills
The ability to succinctly describe quality issues of all types in an issue tracker
The ability to provide reliable reproduction steps for even the trickiest of bugs
An instinct for game system interactions that may guide your testing beyond the strict
requirements of a testing request



Experience
Bachelor’s degree or similar
Experience with common bug tracking systems, Testrail, JIRA, ADO etc
A love for games of all genres, and on all platforms
A love of all things Minecraft
Previous experience with modding, game design, or other game development
experience is a big plus (but by no means required)
Previous experience in, or training for, QA is appreciate



Mojang Studios
Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game developer. The company was founded in Stockholm, Sweden and has offices around the world, including Stockholm, Redmond, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai. We’re always working on new and exciting ways to expand the Minecraft universe.
Our community is global and incredibly diverse. We keep this in mind when developing anything, as we want people to feel included in Minecraft. And in recruiting, our goal is to make Mojang Studios as diverse as our community.
We got started as a tiny indie developer, and part of our culture still reflects that heritage. But we’re also proud to belong to Xbox Game Studios, which creates unique opportunities to grow and develop.
To help us achieve amazing things, we have built an equally amazing studio space. Situated right on the water by Söder Mälarstrand, it’s filled to the brim with all the tools, toys and caffeine required to create world-class entertainment.
But in the end, it’s the people of Mojang Studios that make this place truly special. When you join, you’ll find yourself in the company of incredibly bright, warm, and creative individuals – all united and working toward a single goal. Come help us reach it!