QA Analyst, Narrative

Role Overview

**What You Will Do ** You will work within Narrative Design & Writing to ensure narrative content is functional, cohesive, and immersive across the entire player experience.

**Feature QA **

• Execute manual testing for all gameplay features, validating functionality, performance, and player experience.
• Conduct regression, integration, and exploratory testing to ensure stability across builds.
• Document, track, and prioritize issues in JIRA, providing clear and actionable feedback to developers and designers.
• Maintain detailed and up-to-date test cases and plans for all pod content. Narrative QA
• Story Development Support: Review and validate Story Documents, Outlines, Breakdowns, Capsules, and Scripts for narrative consistency and logic.
• Character & World Documentation: Assist with QA passes on Character Bios, Story Bibles, Character Bibles (with Art), and Style Guides (with Design) to ensure alignment between writing, design, and art.
• Narrative Tools & Systems: Test Narrative Design Documentation, Feature Wrappers, Narrative Design Specs, Presentation Decks for completeness and cross-discipline clarity.
• Implementation Testing: Validate Narrative Mission Flows, 4X Branching Missions, ARPG Branching Quests, Dialogue, Objectives, and Script Implementation for correct triggers, progression logic, and localization integration.
• Player-Facing Copy QA: Ensure quality and tone consistency for in-game text including Character, Ship, Building, and Location Descriptions, Asset Naming, and Ancillary text (Modals, Strings, Push Notifications).
• Narrative-as-a-Service Support: Collaborate with live-ops and content pods to QA ongoing narrative updates and Pod Support content.
• Cinematic & VO Support: Assist with Cutscene Blocking, Barks, Walk & Talks, and Voiceover Direction verification (e.g., line delivery, text/audio sync, timing)

Requirements

**You Bring **

• 2+ years of QA experience within narrative-driven or content-heavy game projects, with a strong focus on story validation, dialogue systems, or branching content.
• Deep understanding of narrative structure, story logic, and character consistency, with the ability to identify pacing, continuity, or tonal discrepancies across multiple narrative assets.
• Familiarity with narrative tools and pipelines, including script editors, dialogue trees, localization systems, and in-engine narrative implementation workflows.
• Hands-on experience testing branching missions or quests, ensuring progression logic, objective triggers, and player-choice outcomes function as intended.
• Strong attention to grammar, tone, and style, with the ability to maintain consistent narrative voice across in-game text, descriptions, and UI copy.
• Experience working with localization and VO pipelines, verifying text/audio synchronization, subtitle accuracy, and language integration.
• A passion for storytelling in games and an eye for narrative detail, ensuring every piece of dialogue, text, and cinematic moment supports the player experience.

Benefits

Bonus Features (What We Can Do For You)

• Medical Plan
• Vision Plan
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401K w/ Matching Contribution
• Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave