Game Security Engineer (QA)

Ubisoft

Düsseldorf, Germany

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