Location
London

Hours
Full Time - 6 months contract

Salary
Competitive salary

About the Role
Hutch is a mobile games developer and publisher with studios in central London, Dundee, and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile, with games played by over 300 million people and new titles in development. We prioritise our people, offering a supportive environment where you can create great games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. Our small, empowered teams work collaboratively to take on creative and technical challenges, focusing on transparency, continuous learning, and community at the core.

We are looking for a QA Embedded Tester to join our London team for a 6-month contract. Reporting to the QA Project Lead, you will work embedded within a small mobile games development team in an agile environment. You will own the testing of one of our mobile games, performing in-house testing and regression. The role requires excellent communication skills, strong technical ability, self-motivation, and organisation. Our QA philosophy emphasises close collaboration with developers and production teams, focusing on bug prevention rather than detection.

Key Responsibilities:
- Design and execute functional and regression test plans (manual testing)
- Work embedded within the development team completing in-house testing and bug regression
- Attend and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily scrums
- Report on build status
- Track bug process and manage bug databases
- Implement bug prevention methods
- Conduct proactive risk analysis to identify key testing areas

Experience
- Proven experience working embedded within a development team in the mobile games industry
- Knowledge of game development life cycles
- Detail orientated with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills

About you
- Self-motivated and well organised
- Passionate about QA and quality games
- Collaborative team player comfortable working in an agile environment

Qualifications
- Education in Computer Science, Games Design or similar is a bonus
- Experience with JIRA or other bug tracking systems is advantageous
- Mobile games testing experience (iOS/Android) - functional and non-functional testing preferred
- Good understanding of Agile development and testing methodologies
- Understanding of the Free-to-Play business model, mobile games market, and exposure to licensing is a plus