League of Geeks – Digital Games Quality Assurance Placement

Four-month placement opportunity for a Western Australian digital games practitioner.

Posted

Tuesday, 5 May 2026

A paid four-month Quality Assurance (QA) placement is available for a Western Australian digital games practitioner through the Screenwest Professional Development – Placements Program. The placement will be working for a games studio on multiple digital games titles.

Applications close Tuesday, 12 May 2026 at 5pm AWST.

About the attachment

Dates: Monday, 18 May 2026 – Friday, 11 September 2026

Location: Remote working from home (WFH) arrangement for Western Australia based practitioners

Production Company: League of Geeks, based in Melbourne

This four-month QA placement offers a structured entry point into professional game quality assurance, aligned with the objectives of a Practitioner building a career in game development. By participating in guided QA work across two live titles and one title currently in development, the Practitioner will gain firsthand experience of the distinct demands present at different stages of the development lifecycle.

Working across multiple projects simultaneously exposes them to varied genres, platforms, and audience expectations, developing the adaptability and contextual judgement that distinguishes a capable QA professional, and game developer.

The placement is further strengthened by direct mentorship from a Production Director with over ten years of game development experience, ensuring the Practitioner receives guided, industry-grounded feedback on their work and professional development.

Beyond this primary mentorship, daily collaboration within a world-class development team provides organic exposure to the full spectrum of disciplines building the cross-functional communication skills and studio literacy essential for a sustainable career in games..

Responsibilities

Under the expert guidance of Production Director Ally McLean Hennessy you will be tasked with:

Exploratory Testing: The Practitioner will develop the ability to perform unscripted, intuition-driven testing to identify defects that structured test cases may not cover, building a critical investigative mindset.
Test Plan Creation and Documentation: The Practitioner will learn to design, write, and maintain comprehensive test plans that clearly define scope, objectives, test cases, entry and exit criteria, and risk areas for a given build or feature.
Bug Reporting and Bug Lifecycle Management: The Practitioner will become proficient in writing clear, reproducible, and actionable bug reports using industry-standard tools (Jira), and will understand how defects are triaged, prioritised, assigned, and verified through to resolution.
Regression Testing: The Practitioner will gain experience in systematically re-testing previously validated features following code changes, patches, or new builds to ensure existing functionality has not been compromised.
Project Management and Collaboration Tools: The Practitioner will build working proficiency in Jira for issue tracking and sprint workflows, and Miro for visual test planning, mapping, and collaborative documentation within a production pipeline.
Cross-Functional Communication: The Practitioner will develop the ability to communicate effectively with designers, engineers, artists, and producers, translating QA findings into language appropriate for each discipline and contributing constructively in team discussions.
Live Service QA Practices: Through supporting two live titles, the Practitioner will gain exposure to the specific pressures and processes of live operations QA, including hotfix validation, update verification, and prioritisation under time-sensitive conditions.
Smoke Testing and Build Verification: The Practitioner will learn to perform rapid, high-level checks on new builds to confirm core functionality before deeper testing begins, developing judgement about critical-path features.
Risk-Based Testing Prioritisation: The Practitioner will develop the ability to assess which areas of a build carry the highest risk and allocate testing effort accordingly, a skill essential for working within real production timelines.

This role may involve contact with children as part of the League of Geeks (LoG) playtesting program. LoG makes a range of games including games for children. As part of the development process, LoG is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children. The successful applicant will be supported to meet child safety standards as part of their employment at LoG, including a Working with Children Check and child safety training. All successful applicants undergo pre-employment screening including referee checks.

WA First Nations practitioners and WA practitioners from historically underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

The Production Company will select the successful applicant. Screenwest provides administration support.

Key requirements

In addition to meeting the eligibility requirements in the Professional Development – Placements and Screenwest Terms of Trade, you must have:

A basic workstation set up and ability to WFH remotely.
Capability to work core business hours in AEST timezone.
Experience developing and testing a publicly released digital game.
Be thorough and have a high attention to detail.
Great organisational and time management skills.
A pro-active nature and demonstrate initiative.
Excellent communication, creative collaboration and teamwork skills.
A commitment to working in a professional, inclusive and supportive environment.
A current Working With Children Check or be willing (and able) to obtain one.

Special consideration will be given to applicants who have experience in: