Software Test Engineer
- Redmond, WA
- Contract
- Full-time
Duration: 12+ Months(W2 Only)
Location: Redmond, WA 98052
100% Onsite RoleJob Description:
Job Overview:
We are seeking a passionate and detail-oriented QA Tester to join the Minecraft Education (EDU) team. This role focuses on advocating for quality by ensuring new features, content, and experiences deliver a positive and impactful experience to educators and learners. The ideal candidate will bring a user-focused mindset to testing while collaborating across development, support, and content creation teams.Key Responsibilities:
- Client Architecture Support:
- Validate new EDU features during development stages.
- Test compatibility and overlap between EDU and Bedrock platform updates.
- Identify and report regressions or legacy feature conflicts.
- Content Testing Support:
- Collaborate with EDU content developers to ensure downloadable worlds meet compliance, functionality, and usability standards.
- Provide UX feedback for educational content to enhance learning engagement.
- Collaboration with EDU Support:
- Work with the Support team to triage and replicate customer-reported issues from tickets and social media.
- Assist in debugging, root cause analysis, and creating actionable bug reports for development teams.
- Test Execution & Planning:
- Develop test passes based on feature acceptance criteria.
- Own feature areas and contribute to overall test plan creation.
- Validate bug fixes and assess risks to surrounding systems.
- Collaborate across hardware platforms and environments (PC, tablet, console, etc.).
- Advocate for the user experience with an educational lens, focusing on students, educators, and institutional administrators.
- Experience in manual QA testing, including creation and execution of test passes.
- Familiarity with QA processes such as issue reproduction, defect logging, and validation testing.
- Understanding of root cause analysis and ability to assess risk for adjacent features.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills - both in-person and online.
- Ability to work across a variety of platforms and technologies.
- Experience with Minecraft, particularly in gameplay, mechanics, or modding.
- Background in education, teaching, or working with learning technologies.
- Understanding of user experience in classroom or learning environments.
- Exposure to test areas such as:
- UI/UX
- Accessibility and compliance
- Gameplay mechanics
- Localization and telemetry
- Multiplayer/networking
- Web and companion applications
- Bug tracking and reporting tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira)
- Microsoft Office/Teams for collaboration
- Debug tools (some familiarity helpful, coding/scripting not required)