Senior Test Analyst, B&OP - E-Commerce

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Job Description:

The Battle.net & Online Products organization is home to 300+ superpowered engineers, program managers, and designers passionate about the technology that powers Blizzard Entertainment's games. Whether you're playing one of our titles, chatting with friends, or just shopping online, B&OP ensures that our players are immersed in engaging, exciting, and secure experiences.

Blizzard QA is a close-knit team that cares about iteration, collaboration, and succeeding together. We share knowledge and improve our skills by learning from each other's success and failures via group discussions, mentoring, and adopting techniques that keep us delivering quality entertainment. In this position you will help build and maintain tools used in development every day.

The E-Commerce team develops the software, services and infrastructure that helps millions of players process transactions worldwide. Whether it's setting up your World of Warcraft subscription or buying a mount, or purchasing a Hearthstone pack in game or on our web shop!

Covid-19 Hiring: We are currently working under a temporary work-from-home model and are continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position but will later be assigned to work full-time at a physical location on-site.

Responsibilities

• Work and collaborate with B&OP teams to embed and establish quality goals, develop test plans and understand risk-based testing.
• Identify and implement technical solutions (tests) increasing test efficiency and coverage, while reducing the cost of test execution.
• Debug and tackle issues in the test runs, partner with the team to identify the root cause and write reports/bugs.
• Analyze test data and results to identify patterns, report on risk status to development partners, and influence software quality.
• Collaborate with analysts and engineers to provide testing guidance.
• Promote quality software among individuals and teams.
• Share ideas, solutions, processes and best practices within the team and across Blizzard, to be part of innovative and exciting products!
• Champion Blizzard's core values, especially "Commit to Quality".
• Test against deployed changes to production.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability (3+ years) within a QA or similar role with a focus on engineering or automation.
• Proven experience as a QA tester with Deep understanding of testing practices and the SDLC.
• Solid understanding of acceptance, functional, regression, exploratory and integration testing.
• Experience working in SCRUM/Agile Environments close to a development team.
• Strong communication skills in both verbal and written formats.
• Experience with API Testing and API Automation (Postman, JUnit, TestNG, Rest Assured SoapUI)
• Experience with Web Testing and Web Automation (Selenium, Cypress, or similar frameworks)
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins)
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Github.

Pluses

• 2+ years of experience working within a professional environment with large testing code bases in Java, Javascript, or C#.
• Experience in Ecommerce technologies/platforms/services to design test for web services (micro-services), web sites (SPAs), security.
• Experience writing scripts to optimize manual workflows.
• Experience with software release management.
• Experience with Linux, Docker containers.
• Cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We've worked hard to champion an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiencesever. Join us!

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $19.23 - $35.58 Hourly. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.