Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and enthusiastic producer to help coordinate, and prioritize test engineering across development teams. The ideal candidate is a highly organized individual with outstanding communication abilities, and proven experience in production. In addition, this person will need to have passion for creating epic video 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 development teams, quality assurance (QA), and the test engineering team.
  
• Risk management – Identify roadblocks, and work with respective teams to mitigate early.
  
• Work with leadership across teams to determine backlog of work.
  
• Work with key stakeholders to improve development processes.
  
• Ensure stakeholders are kept up to date on project status, and direction.
  
• Act as a member of the test engineering team’s leadership.
  
• Contribute to a positive working environment.
  
• Mentor junior production staff.
  
• Additional responsibilities, as assigned by management.
  

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years’ in a production position
  
• Experience working through the entire product lifecycle of a product in a production role
  
• Exceptional communication skills, comfortable communicating with engineers, and executives
  
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills
  
• Experience gathering customer requirements
  
• Knowledge of agile software development processes, and project management
  
• Outstanding networking skills
  
• Able to deal with ambiguity, and embrace change
  
• Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative
  
• Passion for video games
  

Pluses

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

Want to apply?