About the position
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen. EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC soccer, NHL hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC. As an Automation Software Engineer, you will help the team create quality content while boosting developer efficiency. Our Optima engineers maintain a broad view of the development tools, CI/CD and automation systems and look for ways to improve our capabilities for our development team. We are looking for passionate engineers who enjoy prototyping and planning, collaborating with other engineers, and building DevOps, workflows, and capabilities that allow us to work smarter and more efficiently to bring substantial improvements to our game. Please note, this position will require a hybrid onsite presence in either Victoria BC Canada, or Orlando, FL.
Responsibilities
- Work with design and other engineers to provide feedback and then create clear and estimable technical designs.
- Work with other teams of multiple disciplines to maintain automated tests for the game.
- Monitor and improve the automated test suite.
- Participate and communicate ideas to the Automation team to improve existing automation strategies.
- Develop automated tests as part of the CI/CD process.
- Measurably improve process and best practices to achieve targets across a small team of engineers.
- Interpret requests from your QA and engineering partners, account for and call out any roadblocks or efficiencies your partners may not consider, and propose and apply your creative or technical solutions.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional development experience with OOP Languages, C++, C#.
- Understanding of SDLC, STLC processes, and quality methodologies.
- Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, algorithms, design patterns, test-driven development, CI/CD processes and data structures.
- Contributor to technical architecture and design documents for all sizes of features.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer, Software Engineering, Computer Science Degree or related concentration, equivalent and/or combination of education and work experience.
Benefits
- Vacation (3 weeks per year to start)
- 10 days per year of sick time
- Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave)
- Extended health/dental/vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan to regular full-time employees
- Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.
