Escape Velocity Entertainment

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qa-engineer

Escape Velocity Entertainment is a gaming company focused on developing video games that blend new genres with diverse characters and inclusive gameplay. Their aim is to create games that are accessible to players of all skill levels and backgrounds, providing both challenge and choice within rich, engaging worlds. They emphasize diversity, equity, and inclusion in their game design, ensuring players can reach the stars, have fun, and compete regardless of physical limitations, identity, or social network.

• Lead Quality Assurance for a AAA game development team
• Lead embedded testing teams
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to balance quality, schedule, and risk
• Define global QA strategy, test objectives, quality gates, and risk-based testing methodologies for major project milestones
• Integrate QA into early development planning and the feature lifecycle
• Mentor and develop QA Leads and testers
• Manage internal and external QA resources
• Oversee functional, gameplay, performance, stability, multiplayer, and platform certification testing
• Monitor defect trends and quality risks, prioritizing critical issues through resolution
• Analyze defect data, identify systemic quality issues, and drive root-cause analysis and preventative initiatives
• Communicate emerging quality risks and technical assessments to Production and project leadership
• Establish QA schedules and deliverables for major milestones
• Assess build stability and release readiness
• Coordinate final regression and stabilization during release periods
• Lead first-party certification preparation and track submission risks
• Advocate for quality as senior QA representative within project leadership
• Build cross-disciplinary partnerships for shared quality ownership
• Manage external vendors and co-development QA teams
• Implement data-driven reporting and dashboards for build health, test coverage, and milestone progress
• Improve QA efficiency through automation, tooling, and process retrospectives

Test Manager – Quality Assurance

Test Manager leading QA strategy, teams, and certification for Escape Velocity’s AAA game development project. Managing testing, risk, releases, and quality across global remote teams.

designer

• Collaborate with cross-discipline teams to plan and create level content
• Present and pitch ideas to internal and external teams
• Design and develop maps, arenas, objectives, and combat spaces from concept to final blockout
• Create blockouts communicating flow, scale, player positioning, sightlines, cover, and traversal
• Iterate rapidly based on playtest data and team feedback
• Playtest in-progress work of others and provide feedback
• Collaborate with Mechanics and AI Designers and Engineers to create unique gameplay mechanics and improve tools
• Work with Environment Artists to transition gameplay blockouts into polished environments without compromising gameplay integrity
• Own the design and construction of engaging, readable, strategically rich spaces supporting core mechanics, combat, and movement systems

Senior Level Designer

Senior Level Designer creating strategic maps, arenas, and combat spaces for Escape Velocity’s remote game studio. Building gameplay blockouts and collaborating with designers, engineers, and artists.

artificial-intelligence

• Create exciting new enemies for a unique, high-mobility action game
• Create design specs and technical documents
• Work alongside designers and engineers on NPC creation, scripting, and behaviour trees
• Collaborate with producers to plan future work and identify dependencies
• Analyze user data, feedback, and heatmaps to understand game AI functioning and required changes
• Pitch detailed new AI designs to leads and directors

Senior Game AI Designer

Senior Game AI Designer creating enemies, NPC behaviors, scripting, and behavior trees for Escape Velocity’s high-mobility action game. Analyzing player data and pitching AI designs.

A brand new video game development studio comprised of AAA development veterans!

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Test Manager – Quality Assurance

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Senior Level Designer

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Senior Game AI Designer

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