QA Engineer

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🔥 27 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

👻 Ghost score 21%

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Mackin Talent

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Mackin Talent is an international recruitment and staffing firm that specializes in placing world-class STEM talent across the globe. The company provides a range of services including managed staffing (SOW & RPO), virtual bench and remote workers, direct-hire executive search, workforce planning, talent retention, and learning and development. Mackin works with companies of all sizes—from global tech firms to startups—delivering customized, relationship-focused solutions for contingent and permanent hiring needs.

📋 Description

• Run smoke and regression test passes on nightly, stable and release-candidate builds, and report a clear go / no-go signal to the release ship captain • Verify launch-blocking fixes in per-fix clone builds and on the release branch before and after they are picked • Test the application in top-traffic supported worlds, covering travel between worlds, avatars, voice, social features and multiplayer sessions • Reproduce crashes, hangs, ANRs, out-of-memory kills and performance regressions reported from production, and file actionable bugs with repro steps, device logs and video • Test cloud-streamed builds on mobile and PC alongside native Quest builds, and flag surface-specific issues • Create and maintain test plans, test cases and release checklists • Help triage incoming bug reports by confirming, deduplicating, assessing severity and routing them to the appropriate on-call rotation • Identify repetitive manual checks that could be automated and contribute to automated test coverage where practical

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional QA experience on games, VR/AR or large-scale consumer applications, or equivalent • Hands-on experience testing on Android-based devices, including sideloading builds and capturing logs with adb / logcat • Proven experience running regression and release test passes against a fixed release schedule • Excellent bug reporting: concise, reproducible reports with clear steps, expected vs. actual results, severity and supporting evidence • Experience writing and maintaining test plans and test cases • Experience reproducing crashes, stability and performance issues from telemetry or user reports • Comfortable working independently, prioritising under release pressure, and communicating risk clearly to engineers and release owners • Experience testing VR applications, ideally on Meta Quest headsets • Familiarity with Unity, including reading Unity logs and understanding common engine-level failure modes • Experience testing multiplayer, social or user-generated-content (UGC) platforms • Experience testing cloud game or application streaming • Experience with performance and memory profiling tools (e.g. OVR Metrics Tool, Perfetto, Unity Profiler) • Scripting or test automation experience (e.g. Python, Unity Test Framework) • Experience working in live-service (Live Ops) release processes

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Healthcare contribution • Inclusion in company pension scheme • Work laptop and phone • 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays • Potential for career progression for top performers