Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and enthusiastic associate producer to help coordinate, and prioritize test engineering for one of our development projects.   The ideal candidate is a highly organized individual with outstanding communication abilities, and proven production experience.   In addition, this person will need to have passion for creating epic games, and a strong desire to push the state of the art for testing games.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate communication, create consensus on priorities, and synchronize schedules between the development team, quality assurance (QA), and the test engineering team.
  
• Risk management – Identify roadblocks, and work with respective teams to mitigate early.
  
• Work with development and quality assurance (QA) teams’ leadership to determine backlog of work.
  
• Ensure key stakeholders are kept up to date on project status, and direction.
  
• Act as the Scrum Master for the team.
  
• Contribute to a positive working environment.
  
• Additional responsibilities, as assigned by management.
  

Requirements

• A minimum of 1 year in a production, or leadership position
  
• Experience working through the entire ship cycle of a product
  
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills
  
• Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting to senior management
  
• Experience gathering customer requirements
  
• Knowledge of agile software development processes, and project management
  
• Able to deal with ambiguity, and embrace change
  
• Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative
  
• Passion for video games
  

Pluses

• ScrumMaster certification
  
• Experience testing software, especially games
  
• Familiarity with a programming language (C++, C#, etc)
  

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