QA Engineer [Game Security] (f/m/d)

Company Description

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown!

Job Description

Join our team as a Game Security Engineer (QA), where you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, stability, and effectiveness of our game security and anti-cheat solutions. You will work closely with an agile team of software developers and security engineers, contributing to robust QA processes that protect our games and players.

In this role, you will focus on test automation, attack simulation, and CI/CD-driven quality assurance for game security systems, helping us detect issues early and continuously improve our defenses. Design, implement, and maintain automated testing solutions for game security space

What you will do:

• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing solutions for the game security domain
• Actively reproduce and test real-world attacks on games
• Reproduce and validate known attack scenarios to ensure reliable detection and prevention
• Analyse and investigate malicious software, cheats, and abnormal game behaviour
• Maintain, monitor, and improve a complex CI/CD and testing infrastructure
• Plan, execute, and continuously improve pre-release security testing processes
• Collaborate closely with Game Security Engineers, Developers, and build teams to ensure early detection of defects
• Contribute to test strategies, tooling, and documentation to continuously raise security and quality standards

Qualifications

What you bring:

• 3+ years of experience in software development, QA engineering, or test automation
• Hands-on experience testing or analyzing malicious software, i.e.:
  • Configuring and operating secure test sandboxes
  • Operating specialized software for observing, dumping, and analyzing payloads
• Experience with security-focused testing scenarios (e.g. cheat injection, behavioral analysis, adversarial test cases)
• Strong proficiency in Python; working knowledge of C++
• Solid understanding of test automation frameworks and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Analytical mindset with strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Strong interest in game security, reverse engineering, and adversarial thinking

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us

Additional Information

What we offer:

• Relocation support: We offer financial support in form of a cash allowance and assistance with accommodation search and settle-in support via our relocation partner, for international candidates we offer visa assistance
• Ubisoft Blue Byte Academy: We offer multiple opportunities for you to discover your full potential and develop yourself in various areas. Guest speakers from the industry, workshops, and access to our training and development platform as well as to our in-house library
• Discounted and free games: Discount on employee game orders & free Ubisoft games on Ubisoft Connect
• Monthly Mobility Budget: 80€ per month that can be used on bicycle lease, parking spot rental or public transportation ticket
• Up to 350€ childcare support per child per month
• Company Pension Scheme: We offer an attractive company pension scheme
• Gym subsidy: We contribute 50% (up to a maximum amount of 25€) towards the monthly cost of a gym membership of your choice
• 26 days paid vacation per year
• Corporate Benefits web portal: Employee discount program for affiliated retailers, shops, and service providers

Ubisoft offers the same job opportunities to all, without any distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability, or age. Ubisoft ensures the development of an inclusive work environment which mirrors the diversity of our players’ community.

For further information, please check https://duesseldorf.ubisoft.com.