Join Jagex as a Senior QA Analyst to lead testing for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, an open-world survival game built in UE5. Shape test strategies, mentor teams, and ensure a high-quality, stable experience for players in a live-service environment.
Location: Cambridge, UK – This position can accommodate flexible working options. However, candidates must be based (or be willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our Cambridge office to be able to attend onsite as required.
Are you an experienced QA professional with a passion for multiplayer games and the expertise to ensure quality across complex, interconnected systems at scale?
As a Senior QA Analyst, you’ll take ownership of the testing process for our open-world survival game built in UE5. From base building to combat, progression, persistence, and survival mechanics, you’ll be instrumental in ensuring the stability, performance, balance, and quality that players expect from a living and evolving world.
Working closely with multiple internal teams, you’ll shape our test strategies and drive quality ownership throughout the product. As a senior member of the QA team, you’ll mentor others, lead on process improvement, and help define what great looks like for live-service multiplayer game development.
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Right to Work Statement
This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship for this position, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.
About Jagex: The RuneScape Company
We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.
As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit www.jagex.com.
Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions and values. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities.
Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.
Join us. The next era of RuneScape and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now.
Inclusion & Accessibility Statement
We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.
Proven experience managing QA for multiplayer or live-service products; hands-on expertise in networking, replication, persistence, matchmaking, and server performance testing; strong understanding of open-world and multiplayer testing challenges (streaming, AI, server stability, desynchronization); demonstrated ability to define and drive risk-based test strategies; experience testing compatibility, certification, and performance; in-depth knowledge of QA tooling (JIRA, Xray, TestRail); proven experience mentoring QA team members and improving quality processes.
