Nixxes Software is an industry-leading Dutch company specializing in video game design, development and porting.

Working alongside global partners since 1999, our work is fuelled by a love for gaming and commitment to innovation. Our Utrecht based team prides itself on delivering the best possible experience for every gamer, regardless of platform. In July 2021 Nixxes joined PlayStation Studios to focus on delivering the highest-quality gameplay experiences for PlayStation fans.

Job description:

We are looking for a full-time QA tester to strengthen out QA team and help improve the game titles we are working on by verifying the performance, integrity and features of various titles.

You will be working closely with our development team to investigate and report issues, cross check integrity and performance between various platforms and support our developers with day-to-day issues.
This is an in-office position.

Essential Duties and Requirements:

• Working with our development team and external QA to reproduce reported issues.
• Find and report on issues, based on existing test cases.
• Cross check integrity between the various development platforms.
• Cross check performance between various development platforms and systems.
• Analyze and present test results in a clear and coherent manner.
• Support our developers with day-to-day duties.
• Must live in the Netherlands, this is not a remote role.

Competencies, skills & knowledge:

• Great communication skills in written and spoken English.
• A professional work attitude.
• Accurately executing all assigned test cases – and finding gaps in testing.
• Entering concise, detailed bugs into bug database.
• Produce clear and professional documentation from your findings.
• Assessing whether bugs are genuinely per-platform, or global issues.
• Finding, communicating, and most efficiently reproducing symptoms, without trying to speculate the root issue.
• Discrete and understanding about confidentiality issues.
• Working knowledge of most popular console platforms and related hardware.
• Working knowledge of Windows operating systems and related hardware.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Working knowledge of communications, on-line services and the Internet.

Plusses:

• Experience with PC graphics hardware and benchmarking
• Experience testing video game titles on PlayStation 5, PC or other platforms
• (Native) Dutch speaker