Job Specifications
Location: Remote within the UK or Europe
Salary range: £35,000 - £45,000 - compensation outside the UK will be adjusted based on location.
Please note: We are unable to sponsor international visas at this time.
Our Role:
We're looking for a QA Engineer with a strong instinct for how products should behave and a natural curiosity for finding where they might break. You'll work closely with our Development, Product, and Design teams to help us deliver a smooth, high quality experience to our users.
You don't need to be highly technical on day one, but you do need a solid understanding of how to test effectively, how users think, and how features behave in real world scenarios. We value a thoughtful, user focused approach to testing far more than deep automation expertise. We do desire you to have the aptitude and the enthusiasm to learn automation and technical tooling, we'll support you as you grow those skills.
At Nexus Mods, the most important qualities you can bring are a problem solving mindset, curiosity, and a positive, collaborative attitude. In this role, we expect you to be self-driven, proactive, and comfortable performing the core responsibilities of a QA Engineer as part of a fast moving, agile team.
Responsibilities:
Raise risks, identify gaps, and advocate for quality throughout the development lifecycle
Own quality control throughout your team by helping to improve processes, aligning with product and streamlining testing
Perform both functional and non-functional testing in planned and exploratory formats across both our website and desktop application
Learn to build and maintain automated end-to-end tests as part of our CI/CD pipelines
Provide clear, actionable feedback to developers and contribute to discussions around feature behaviour and edge cases
Requirements
Experience in designing, writing and executing test plans - including when formal requirements are limited and critical thinking is required to identify test scenarios
Understanding of software development life cycles and the ability to contribute actively throughout sprint activities
Some foundational knowledge or exposure to automated testing tools, plus a willingness to develop these skills
A tester's mindset: curious, skeptical, and focused on real-world user impact
Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate quality concerns clearly
ISTQB Foundation Level certification
Bonus Skills
Experience using GitLab for issue tracking
Experience testing desktop applications
Experience with test automation tools, ideally with Javascript/Typescript in Playwright
An understanding of games modding and knowledge of Nexus Mods.
Benefits
We work a 4-day week of 32 hours, with no reduction in pay
An allowance of £25 each month to spend on video games
Employee Assistance Programme
Private BUPA healthcare for you and your family
A very flexible training budget
Regular social events throughout the year. Participation is optional!
About Nexus Mods
Established in 2001, Nexus Mods is the largest video game modding platform on the internet—a household name in the PC gaming ecosystem.
65M+ registered members
750K+ mods for 3,500+ games
18B+ mod downloads
We're currently focused on product modernisation, driving growth and building infrastructure for the next 10 years of community-powered modding.
How We Work:
At Nexus Mods, engineers don't disappear into silos. You'll join a cross-functional product pod. An autonomous, outcome-focused team with everything needed to help ship real impact: Product Manager, Tech Lead, Backend/Frontend Engineers, App Developers, Designers, QAs, Community & Content.
Pods own strategy, discovery, delivery, and results. That means you're not just handed tickets, you help shape what gets built, test ideas with users, and see your work reach millions of gamers worldwide.
Diversity and Inclusion
We celebrate diversity and want you to bring your whole self to work.
Supporting an incredible community of tens of millions of users, we thrive on engaging as many views as possible to improve our platform. We see no reason why our culture should be any different.
About the Company
Nexus Mods is the world’s largest games mod site, hosting over 500,000 files and home to over 14,000,000 passionate community members. Transforming users gaming experience and extending the life of existing titles through the hard work and dedication of mod authors worldwide.
Founded in 2001, Nexus Mods has seen rapid growth year on year and established itself as a global platform to showcase user-created video game modifications. With over 2.5 billion downloads we have one of the most engaged communities in the world.
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