CAREERS

If you’re interested in working with us, please send your resume and any other information you think is important to jobs@theresearchcentaur.com.

WHY BECOME A CENTAUR?

We’re passionate about games, and hand-select our staff to best fit with our culture, our skills, and our philosophy. Once someone becomes a Centaur, we work with them to continuously develop their skillset. We believe in crafted, individualized service for our clients; so why not crafted, individualized roles for our employees, too?

We’ve worked on fantastically creative and diverse games with amazing developers (Check out our clients page!) and we want to collaborate with fantastically creative and diverse people, so please apply now!

We have a San Diego office in a great neighborhood. It’s smack-dab in the middle of award-winning restaurants, and we’re steps away from the bay and trolley. We believe in work/life balance and growth, plus there are other benefits, too. Just ask us about them if you’re curious!

QA Lead The Behemoth/The Research Centaur is looking for a QA Lead! This person will assist in helping plan and test The Behemoth games from start to finish as well as working with various external client titles through The Research Centaur. We need someone with proficient communication and team collaboration skills as well as a focus on independence and innovation within the department. What you’ll be doing: Design and lead testing for games, mobile applications, and websites for various mobile, PC, VR, and console platforms.

Create budgets and maintain QA headcount estimates and staffing requests.

Guide and help continue to build our team of specialists to form a uniquely diverse set of skilled centaurs.

Test the game yourself and also provide post-release support for customers, if needed.

Collaborate with test specialists, development, and production to improve process and software.

Help run The Research Centaur’s unique services for both internal and external developers and be sensitive to developer’s needs in order to create lasting relationships. Your experience: Proficient use of written language; correct use of spelling and basic English-language grammar; Demonstrates ability to effectively review and edit defects.

Experience with functional testing (black, white, or gray box), test plan design, and bug writing best practices.

Proficient ability to budget, headcount, and KPI reporting/tracking for a project.

Can collaborate and lead/mentor a team of 4+ individuals.

Ability to change schedules or needs based on new information or changes. Can communicate any impending issues.

Experience liaising with managers, developers, external test teams or other teams.

Familiarity with various platforms and their needs for testing Some things we like to see, but aren’t necessary to apply: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience/college-level coursework/professional training/certification in related field.

3+ years QA experience or 4+ shipped titles with QA credits. Inclusion as core member of a game test team (Senior or Lead level tester).

Tradeshow experience (PAX, Comic-con etc.)

We have a warehouse so sometimes we might need help prepping for shows. This means we might ask you to lift a max of 50 pounds and/or work with tools and electronics (We can show you how if you’ve never done it)

Enjoys playing indie games and gaming in general

Availability for some overtime work as requested. We try not to do overtime, like, at all. But sometimes it happens.

QA Tester A contracted full-time testing position through our contingent staffing partner with potential for permanent hire. We treat all employees like family, contract or not and include the same type of growth and work/life balance focus for everyone. What you’ll be doing: Follow, complete, and update assigned test cases.

Perform effective exploratory/ad hoc testing on assigned areas of software on various platforms.

Detect, research, and document software defects in a bug tracking system. Confirm fixes. Your experience: Familiarity with at least one, and ability to test all, of these product types and platforms: games, mobile applications, websites, Xbox One, PlayStation®4, PC, Steam, VR.

Familiarity with Functional testing and bug writing best practices.

Proficient written and verbal communication skills, with good knowledge of spelling and grammar.

Ability to collaborate and support a team, as well as work individually when needed. Some things we like to see, but aren’t necessary to apply: We have a warehouse so sometimes we might need help prepping for shows. This means we might ask you to lift a max of 50 pounds and/or work with tools and electronics (We can show you how if you’ve never done it).

Ability to provide tradeshow support if needed; local or sometimes requiring travel.

Availability for some overtime work as requested. We try not to do overtime, like, at all, But sometimes it happens.

Ability to lead small groups in specific test tasks.

1 year game industry experience or 1+ shipped and credited game title or equivalent experience.

If you have additional or unusual abilities, please be sure to let us know, we’re always searching for talent!

Some of us can weld, program, build things, design things, or do other cool stuff. Please send your resume and any other materials you feel are important to jobs@theresearchcentaur.com. We will keep your materials on-file and will contact you if we feel you are a good fit for us.

You Tell Us!

We’re a multi-functional team. Do you think we could use your help in another role?

Let us know!