Open World QA Analyst

We're looking for an experienced and motivated professional to join our Witcher 4 QA team as an Open World QA Analyst, with a strong focus on Community systems. In this role, you’ll be primarily responsible for testing and validating the behaviors, interactions, and overall quality of NPC communities across the open world - ensuring they feel alive, coherent, and reactive within a dynamic game environment.

If you have a solid background in QA and enjoy working with complex systems (especially around AI behaviors, crowds and emergent interactions) and you’re passionate about creating believable, immersive worlds - this role is for you.

We believe diverse voices make for better games. If you're someone who thrives on cross-team collaboration, enjoys solving complex systemic challenges, and cares deeply about how players experience living, breathing communities within the open world,  we’d love to hear from you.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop QA test plans and strategies with a strong focus on Community systems and hubs, including NPC behaviors, daily routines, social interactions, and systemic reactivity within the open world.
• Write and maintain test cases and checklists covering NPC communities, crowd dynamics, behavioral states, schedule consistency, and interactions with players, quests, and environmental conditions.
• Create, organize, and maintain clear documentation to support team-wide knowledge sharing - including NPC/system behaviors, edge cases, regression reports, and cross-system dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with AI, world design, level design, and technical teams to verify correct implementation of NPC logic, community behaviors, and their interactions with streaming, quest states, and regional systems.
• Conduct thorough testing of emergent gameplay scenarios, including how NPCs react to player actions, disruptions (e.g. combat, time changes), and transitions such as save/load, fast travel, and streaming boundaries.
• Identify, debug, and report issues related to NPC logic, behavior consistency, state persistence, and systemic interactions, track resolutions, and verify fixes.
• Analyze data and assess risks related to scalability, performance, and stability of NPC systems, especially in high-density areas and complex gameplay states.
• Provide actionable, constructive feedback on believability, readability, and consistency of NPC communities, helping ensure that hubs feel alive, reactive, and coherent within the game world.
• Perform hardware-focused testing to ensure stable performance of community systems, including crowd density, AI processing, and streaming behavior across platforms.

• Minimum 4 years of experience in a similar role, preferably focused on open world or systemic gameplay.
• Proven experience creating and verifying detailed test plans and checklists.
• Skilled in documenting test processes and managing bugs using JIRA, TestRail, or similar tools.
• Experience in testing NPC behaviors, AI systems, or simulation-based features is highly valued.
• Solid debugging skills and a structured approach to identifying root causes in complex, multi-system environments.
• Familiarity with region-based logic and open world systems.
• Ability to identify, track, and report issues related to traversal, dynamic content, and environment interactions.
• Experience with hardware variability testing across different platforms and configurations.
• Strong analytical skills and a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Clear, respectful communicator and reliable team player.
• Proactive mindset and ownership—ability to drive testing areas independently and follow through on complex topics.
• Fluent in English.
• Passion for immersive game worlds, with an eye for how NPC systems translate into player experience.
• Solid understanding of the video game market, with a focus on open world games and their design trends

Nice to Have

• Experience testing games across multiple platforms (PC, consoles).
• Experience with NPC crowd systems, scheduling systems, or AI state machines.
• Familiarity with debugging tools, logs, or scripting tools used in game development
• Understanding of performance considerations related to AI and high-density environments.
• Experience in working in game dev studio
• Exposure to commercial game engines, especially Unreal Engine or Unity.
• Basic knowledge of automation tools or scripting for QA purposes.

Working mode

In-office in a hybrid or full-time capacity in Warsaw, Poland.

Relocation Support

• Relocation package — flight ticket, company apartment for your first month, relocating your pet and family, shipping your belongings. It’s all covered.
• Relocation assistance — processing your legalization operations for you and  tax settlements — all you need to feel right at home is taken care of.
• Polish lessons for foreign employees — and for your spouse or partner, too.
• Paid Leave — from 20 to 26 days of holiday per year, and paid sick leave.

Health & Well-Being

• Private medical healthcare — a selection of medical plans with dental care and unlimited rehabilitation to choose from, which are also accessible for your partner and relatives.
• Life insurance — comprehensive pension and insurance plans to protect you and your loved ones.
• Annual screenings for cancer prevention covered by the company.
• Psychological and psychiatrist care — free mental health support and various well-being initiatives.
• Sports card — gain access to a wide number of sporting and fitness facilities across the city.
• Menstrual leave — employees who menstruate can take one extra day off when experiencing period pain.
• RED Parents Network — support for working parents, including childcare benefits, and family-friendly events.
• RED Summer Camp for Kids — a fun summer program for children aged 5–12, majoritively paid by the company.

Perks & Professional Growth

• A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team.
• Trainings, lectures, and courses — workshops and trainings for each employee, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available. There’s always something to learn!
• REDs have access to the cafeteria platform through which they can receive subscription benefits, additional medical packages or vouchers and codes to shops, cinemas, and public transport reimbursement.
• Gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!
   

Social Activities & Life in the Office

• Dog-friendly office — dog owner? Bring your pooch with you and look after them while working! There’s always a furry friend or two to meet at the studio.
• Social events — we host regular gatherings at the studio where we can all unwind, play games, and just have some fun together.
• Healthy selections — ​​canteens.
• Truly international working environment — a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.
• Sustainability is an ongoing commitment for us, and our campus has  electric car charging points, green zones, and much more. Read all about it on our Beyond the Game Blog.
• A designated space for your bicycle, as well as bicycle repair equipment and showers available whenever you need them.
• An onsite, well-equipped gym with a climbing wall, daily Gym Assistant support, and yoga and boxing classes.
• No dress-code — we like to keep it casual.

 

Estimated pay range for this position: 7 600 – 12 200 PLN gross monthly.
Final offers are dependent on job-related factors like experience and qualifications.

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