Software Developer in Test - Old School RuneScape

Are you interested in joining one of the world’s biggest MMOs? Do you want to work on a unique and large-scale project and tackle some of the most interesting challenges in online gaming? Then you’re in the right place!

We’re in the early stages of a major product update on Old School RuneScape and looking for an SDET to take part in setting the foundation of test automation to enable Old School RuneScape to run for the next 20 years, In line with our mission of creating forever games, you will support the game teams in ensuring high quality and availability for our players.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build, and evolve test automation frameworks, integration test frameworks, and internal tools for Jagex games.
• Architect and write code to improve the quality of the automation toolchain.
• Standardize reporting of key performance metrics to assess impact/value.
• Work with other disciplines to understand customer requirements and update the team roadmap to reflect priorities.
• Mentor QA Engineers and other developers to effectively use the frameworks in writing test cases for games.
• Collaborate with the game teams on the adoption and support of automation frameworks as part of their development/release pipeline.
• Participate in design/code reviews, measure code coverage, assess overall system quality, and ensure the efficiency of automated test frameworks.

What we're looking for:

• Demonstrable experience with performance and load testing, integration and API testing
• Working knowledge of AWS
• Experience with monitoring, metrics and using data for insights
• Programming skills in Python with willingness to learn other languages
• Focus on automation and integrating testing in CI/CD
• Ability to work across multiple product engineering teams
• Deep understanding of selenium or cucumber for web user testing
• Gatling, JMeter, Locust

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise.
If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.