QA Analyst (Narrative)

What You Will Do

You will work within Narrative Design & Writing to ensure narrative content is functional, cohesive, and immersive across the entire player experience.

Feature QA

• Execute manual testing for all gameplay features, validating functionality, performance, and player experience.
• Conduct regression, integration, and exploratory testing to ensure stability across builds.
• Document, track, and prioritize issues in JIRA, providing clear and actionable feedback to developers and designers.
• Maintain detailed and up-to-date test cases and plans for all pod content.

Narrative QA

• Story Development Support: Review and validate Story Documents, Outlines, Breakdowns, Capsules, and Scripts for narrative consistency and logic.
• Character & World Documentation: Assist with QA passes on Character Bios, Story Bibles, Character Bibles (with Art), and Style Guides (with Design) to ensure alignment between writing, design, and art.
• Narrative Tools & Systems: Test Narrative Design Documentation, Feature Wrappers, Narrative Design Specs, Presentation Decks for completeness and cross-discipline clarity.
• Implementation Testing: Validate Narrative Mission Flows, 4X Branching Missions, ARPG Branching Quests, Dialogue, Objectives, and Script Implementation for correct triggers, progression logic, and localization integration.
• Player-Facing Copy QA: Ensure quality and tone consistency for in-game text including Character, Ship, Building, and Location Descriptions, Asset Naming, and Ancillary text (Modals, Strings, Push Notifications).
• Narrative-as-a-Service Support: Collaborate with live-ops and content pods to QA ongoing narrative updates and Pod Support content.
• Cinematic & VO Support: Assist with Cutscene Blocking, Barks, Walk & Talks, and Voiceover Direction verification (e.g., line delivery, text/audio sync, timing)

Requirements:
• 2+ years of QA experience within narrative-driven or content-heavy game projects, with a strong focus on story validation, dialogue systems, or branching content.
• Deep understanding of narrative structure, story logic, and character consistency, with the ability to identify pacing, continuity, or tonal discrepancies across multiple narrative assets.
• Familiarity with narrative tools and pipelines, including script editors, dialogue trees, localization systems, and in-engine narrative implementation workflows.
• Hands-on experience testing branching missions or quests, ensuring progression logic, objective triggers, and player-choice outcomes function as intended.
• Strong attention to grammar, tone, and style, with the ability to maintain consistent narrative voice across in-game text, descriptions, and UI copy.
• Experience working with localization and VO pipelines, verifying text/audio synchronization, subtitle accuracy, and language integration.
• A passion for storytelling in games and an eye for narrative detail, ensuring every piece of dialogue, text, and cinematic moment supports the player experience.

Benefits:
• Full-time contract.
• Medical healthcare
• Multisport card.
• Stable employment and professional growth in an international environment.
• Informal and casual work atmosphere, far from corporate standards.
• Friendly and open-minded teams.
• Chillout areas with free fruits and drinks, arcades, gaming consoles, and board games.