This is a full-time role based onsite at Dlala Studios in Witham, Essex.

We're looking for a Senior QA Tester who thinks about quality the way we do, not as a gate at the end of the process, but as something the whole team builds in from day one.

You'll be embedded with our small cross-functional QA team, working alongside designers, programmers, artists, and producers on our new unannounced PC/Console project. You'll find bugs, yes, but more importantly, you'll help the team understand them, prevent them, and not make them again. If you've ever caught yourself playing a game and immediately thinking ‘I wonder how they missed that’, we'd like to meet you.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead exploratory testing across features, systems, and player journeys, getting stuck in early enough to shape things, not just report on them
• Design and evolve test approaches as new mechanics and systems develop
• Write clear, thorough bug reports, good repro steps, honest impact assessment, and a player-first lens
• Write and maintain your own test cases, providing planned full coverage for the project itself, as well as review test plans created by other QA Team members
• Contribute to test strategy across platforms, including performance, compatibility, and certification readiness
• Spot high-value opportunities for automation, including regression and smoke test coverage
• Support playtests and help the team translate player feedback into actionable improvements
• Work with our engineers to improve testability, logging, and CI pipelines

What We're Looking For:

• Solid experience in QA for console, PC, or multi-platform game development with Shipped titles on your CV
• Strong exploratory testing instincts and a critical eye for player experience, edge cases, and systemic risk
• Familiarity with issue tracking tools (Jira) and structured defect management
• Understanding of modern development practices like CI/CD and version control workflows
• A good grasp of performance considerations like frame rate stability and memory constraints
• Confidence communicating and collaborating across disciplines
• Comfortable working in iterative environments
• A strong attention to detail, and the ability to work autonomously within a given task whilst remaining confident to ask questions or seek help, as needed
• A positive presence that is eager to participate in Studio activities

Bonus If You Have:

• Experience with Unity Engine
• Experience with Testrail
• Some scripting or programming ability to support automation
• Knowledge of console certification requirements

Why Dlala?:

We work in an environment where ideas are welcomed, experimentation is encouraged, and quality is treated as a craft rather than a checkbox. You will be encouraged to take ownership of areas of the game related to your discipline and challenged in ways that will help you grow in your career and as a person. We offer flexibility across almost all areas of the working day, and we genuinely invest in our team's wellbeing, not just as a policy, but because it's the right way to work.

If you're passionate about games, endlessly curious about how things break, and motivated to help a team do their best work, we'd love to hear from you.

Location:

This is a full-time role based in-house at our offices in Witham, Essex in England.