Senior SDET

Who We Are

Second Dinner is an award-winning independent game development studio that is here to make the most fun games in the world. Not super fun games. Not SUPER DUPER fun games. We mean the MOST fun games. In fact, our game MARVEL SNAP has earned multiple Mobile Game of the Year Awards (Game Awards, DICE), Best Strategy Game (IGN), and the Apple Design Award for Innovation!

Second Dinner is a remote-first studio, so while we are headquartered in Irvine, California, most of our team is fully remote across the United States. We want the most talented teammates wherever they call home. A diverse team with varied perspectives makes us a better company and will help us make better games. If you can bring something new to the table and expand our point of view, thats a huge upside.

Our Engineering Team:

At Second Dinner, we believe that great people in a great work environment will lead us to great games and player experiences. In engineering, we empower our team to build and innovate with best in class tools in ways they havent been used before. Our goal is to simplify the game development process and redefine what is possible in game development.

Your Role:

As a core member of our automation and testing initiatives, you’ll own the direction, evolution and integration of them within the larger MARVEL SNAP team. You will report to the Lead Engineer of the Tools and Client Platform team and collaborate with analysts, engineers, and artists to create test suites, build pipelines, and develop tools to ensure we deliver the highest quality games possible to our players! If you’re passionate about testing, automation, validation, and continuous integration, then wed love to hear from you!

**Please attach your cover letter AND resume as one document**

What You’ll Do:

• As an automation superhero, you’ll identify, design, and deliver technical solutions (frameworks, tests, API hooks, tools) that increase test effectiveness, coverage, and overall development velocity

• Build and enhance continuous integration and delivery pipelines to support game design teams across MARVEL SNAP 

• Ownership of the long term development and roadmapping.

• Implement metrics, analyze test data to identify patterns, and report on risk status to help enhance software quality

• Help optimize the existing manual testing efforts and develop new opportunities using automation that will empower the QA team to be more effective and efficient

• Automate everything; from command lines to operating systems, simple to complex processes and anything else you can think of to improve the player experience
  

What You’ll Need:

• To be able to work independently charting the course for the company in test and automation

• Passion for empowering teams with best in class automated testing tools, frameworks, and test harnesses to improve operations

• Knowledge of industry’s best testing practices, including regression, acceptance, functional, and load testing

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipeline solutions and continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Action

• Experience leading testing automation initiatives

• High levels of empathy and support for team members

• An agile mindset, a desire for constant improvement of tooling, automation and process to improve the quality of our products and the lives of our teammates

• Ability to navigate projects in a start up environment with some level of uncertainty and a seek and solve mindset

• Experience with test automation in Unity

• Passion for playing and making great games

Nice to Have, But Not Necessary:

• Proficiency with .NET, Mobile Devices, and AWS

The total compensation for this position includes a new hire offer base salary range of $130,000 to $170,000 USD + equity + comprehensive benefits + potential for discretionary performance bonuses.

Individual pay within this salary range may span multiple levels within the discipline and is determined by assessed job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training. It also factors in market demands and business needs. The disclosed range is not adjusted based on location and may be subject to change or modification based on business needs in the future. Your recruiter can answer any questions about new hire total compensation during the hiring process.

An overview of the benefits and perks at Second Dinner:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans

• 401(k) contribution with no waiting period

• 16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period

• Home office improvement bonus

• Paid Vacation & Sick time

• Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year

• Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT

• Company Winter Holiday shutdown (Dec 25-Jan 1)

• Company Summer Holiday shutdown (week of July 4)

• Company Events - In-person Summer all-hands gathering, in-person holiday party, and virtual events throughout the year

When can you expect to hear back from us?
We will do our best to ensure you arent waiting too long, and you will be informed of the outcome either way. Please keep an eye out for an email from us. Note: We are anticipating interviews for this role to start in January 2025.

We are an equal opportunity employer that places high value on diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, disability status, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military status, or veteran status. 

You must be eligible to work in the United States to be considered for this position.