Senior QA Analyst
Software Engineering, IT, Quality Assurance · Full-time
Reykjavík, Iceland
Posted on Sep 18, 2026
As a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst on an EVE Online gameplay team, you will guide testing from early design through release and live monitoring. You will work closely with design, engineering, and production to identify risks, shape test coverage, and help the team deliver reliable, engaging gameplay.
You will develop deep knowledge of your team's gameplay systems and how they interact with the wider game. As an advocate for players, you will contribute to design discussions, challenge assumptions, and provide actionable feedback on gameplay and usability. You will also coordinate outsourced testing while improving how the team builds quality into everyday development.
You will develop deep knowledge of your team's gameplay systems and how they interact with the wider game. As an advocate for players, you will contribute to design discussions, challenge assumptions, and provide actionable feedback on gameplay and usability. You will also coordinate outsourced testing while improving how the team builds quality into everyday development.
- Department
- Quality Assurance
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Reykjavík
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Rohana Razak
Your Tasks
- Own the team's test approach, maintaining test plans, cases, regression coverage, and supporting documentation with input from the team.
- Perform hands-on testing of gameplay features, mechanics, and interactions with existing systems, from design through release.
- Assess quality risks, estimate testing effort, and partner with the producer to ensure adequate testing time and coverage. Coordinate testing across the development team and outsourced testers, providing clear priorities, instructions, and feedback.
- Drive collaboration across teams and encourage shared ownership of quality.
- Manage defects through triage, investigation, prioritization, and verification, helping the team make informed release decisions.
- Review player bug reports, external issue lists, and relevant forum discussions to identify issues within the team's domain.
- Coordinate deployment testing and post-release verification, communicating results and outstanding risks.
- Ensure coverage across PC and Mac, including appropriate platform, performance, and regression testing.
- Monitor relevant code, asset, and data changes, and coordinate access to working test environments, tools, and pipelines.
- Improve testing practices and identify opportunities for automation, contributing to automated tests where appropriate.
Your Profile
- At least five years of software or game testing experience, including coordinating and working effectively with outsourced testers.
- A thorough understanding of development processes and testing throughout the project lifecycle.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate game mechanics, controls, interfaces, player feedback, rules, and rewards.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to reproduce, isolate, and clearly document defects.
- The ability to prioritize testing based on risk and communicate quality concerns clearly.
- Excellent written and spoken English, with strong collaboration skills.
- An organized, methodical, and proactive approach, combined with curiosity and creative problem-solving.
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with Scripting, Python or other programming languages.
- Experience with test automation.
- Experience working in Hybrid development environments.
- Knowledge of EVE Online or experience testing complex multiplayer gameplay systems.
What We Can Offer You
- The challenge of working on ambitious projects with amazingly smart and creative co-workers.
- A multicultural work environment that encourages growth, creativity and innovation.
- Double work station setup and flexible work environment.
- An active fun division that hosts regular events.
- An excellent canteen that offers a weekly breakfast and lunch menu as well as drinks and snacks.
- Discretionary quarterly and annual performance sharing plan.
- Annual sports grant.
- A mobile phone as well as a mobile usage package.
- Home internet.
- A conditional monthly transportation grant.
- Work environment that focuses on employee well-being.
- On-site doctor, free of charge as well as other on-site services at a discounted price.
- Relocation Package.
Please submit your application in English.
About Fenris Creations
Fenris Creations is an independent video game developer headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland, with studios in London and Shanghai. Founded in 1997, the studio is renowned for creating deep, player-driven virtual worlds that connect communities across the globe.
Fenris Creations rose to international acclaim with the launch of EVE Online in 2003, a groundbreaking MMORPG that redefined emergent gameplay and player-driven storytelling. Since then, the company has continued to push boundaries through ambitious game development, technological innovation and immersive online experiences.
At Fenris Creations, we believe great virtual worlds are built through collaboration, curiosity, and courage. We create an environment where respect, open dialogue, and creativity thrive, empowering both our teams and our players to shape meaningful experiences together.
Now independently owned once again as of May 2026, Fenris Creations continues its mission to pioneer the future of virtual worlds and online games.
Our name draws inspiration from Norse mythology and honors the studio’s very first published game concept, Hættuspilið (“Danger Game”), created in 1997.
Join us in building worlds more meaningful than real life.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Screening Call
Stage 2:
Hiring Manager Interview
Stage 3:
Assessments
Stage 4:
Discipline Interview
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