Senior Tech QA Analyst - Audio
CD PROJEKT RED14 hours ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Own stability, performance, and quality validation for shared audio systems throughout the development lifecycle.
- Create test strategies and coverage plans for technically complex audio features.
- Investigate audio issues and perform root-cause analysis using C++, Unreal Engine, Wwise, and profiling tools.
- Monitor CPU usage, memory, streaming, and runtime audio performance.
- Design and maintain automated tests, functional test environments, debugging tools, and internal QA infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Audio Code, Sound Design, Music, and QA teams to evaluate technical solutions and make quality recommendations.
- Improve testing pipelines, workflows, and QA practices by researching and integrating new technologies.
- Coordinate technical QA efforts across in-house and external teams.
- Document technical findings, conduct knowledge-sharing workshops, and mentor QA team members.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in technical QA, software testing, or game development focused on complex technical systems.
- Proven experience owning quality, stability, and performance for technical features across the development cycle.
- Strong practical knowledge of Unreal Engine and C++, including the ability to read, investigate, and debug production code.
- Proficiency with Wwise, including technical debugging and performance profiling.
- Experience with Unreal Insights, PIX, or Razor for analyzing performance data, logs, and traces.
- Experience designing and implementing automated or programmatic testing solutions, pipelines, and internal tools.
- Demonstrated ability to perform root-cause analysis across complex systems.
- Ability to design comprehensive test strategies and coverage plans and make data-driven quality recommendations.
- Preferred experience in game audio technology, technical audio, or Audio QA for a shipped PC or console title.
- Preferred hands-on programming experience, test framework and internal QA tool development, CI or development-pipeline integration, audio programming knowledge, advanced Wwise skills, and experience creating debug levels, instrumentation, or visualization tools.
Benefits
- Office-first role based primarily at the Warsaw studio, with full-time or hybrid work options.
- Relocation support includes flights, a first-month company apartment, pet relocation, belongings shipment, legalization assistance, residence support, tax settlement assistance, and Polish lessons.
- Private medical healthcare, dental care, rehabilitation, life insurance, annual cancer-prevention screenings, and psychological and psychiatric support.
- Sports card, menstrual leave, parents’ support programs, and a company-supported summer camp for children.
- Training, lectures, courses, workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning.
- Cafeteria benefits, medical packages, vouchers, shop and cinema codes, public-transport reimbursement, and company gifts.
- Dog-friendly office, social events, canteens, bicycle facilities, electric-car charging points, and a gym with climbing wall, yoga, boxing, and other activities.
- Employment contract in Poland (umowa o pracę).
About CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED is a Warsaw-headquartered game development studio building story-driven role-playing games for PC and consoles. It is the creator of The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077, and funds itself by selling premium titles and expansions worldwide. Founded in 2002, the studio operates globally with teams in Poland and a growing hub in Boston working on new installments and original IP.