SENIOR QA ANALYST

**Location: Remote (US\-based)** **Type: W2 Contract** **Duration: 12 months with potential to extend** **Compensation Range: $85\-$105/HR** We are seeking a **Senior QA Analyst** to help shape the future of gaming for our client, a world\-class streaming leader. We are looking for a deeply curious, relentless tester to challenge assumptions, advocate for the player experience, and collaborate closely with engineering, design, and product teams. As a Senior IC, you will elevate the overall quality culture by mentoring peers, sharing best practices, and driving continuous process improvement. **Responsibilities:** * Define and execute end\-to\-end test strategy across the full development lifecycle for platform tools. * Apply advanced testing techniques (e.g., risk\-based, exploratory, stress/load, chaos) to uncover, isolate, and clearly communicate defects. * Embed with development teams to "shift left" by integrating testing early and continuously (e.g., design reviews, code reviews, testability reviews), accelerating feedback loops and preventing defects before they reach production. * Champion testing craft excellence within the team, mentoring teammates, sharing best practices, and raising the overall quality bar. * Improve process quality and lead root cause analysis for major escapes and live issues, driving actionable process and tooling improvements that prevent recurrence. * Use data to inform quality decisions, leveraging gameplay telemetry, crash/exception logs, performance metrics, and service health signals to surface issues and prioritize work. * Scale impact with test automation and AI\-powered tools, using them to expand coverage, deepen insight, and accelerate feedback loops in CI/CD and live environments. **Qualifications:** * 10\+ years of experience in hands\-on QA / Quality Engineering roles. * Strong ability to use tools and data to debug complex issues, including logs, telemetry, profilers, packet captures, and platform diagnostics. * Experience with game engines and editors (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity), including building and configuring test levels or scenarios. * Experience with non\-functional testing tools (e.g., for load, stress, performance, and connectivity) and the ability to design meaningful scenarios for them. * Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and software testing lifecycle (STLC), and how QA integrates into agile, continuous delivery, and live\-ops environments. * Experience validating developer platforms, SDKs, middleware, or tools used by game teams, including API/SDK integration testing, backward compatibility, and upgrade paths. * Strong collaboration experience with platform, tools, or infrastructure teams to design quality gates in CI/CD, improve diagnosability, and ensure a high\-quality developer experience. Job ID: JN \-062026\-136513 \#LI\-CELLA \#LI\-DC1 \#LI\-Remote Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, S