QA Specialist to test (and play!) our mixed-reality games at Valo Motion

Location: Lauttasaari / Primarily on-site

Do you dream of a job where you're not just sitting behind a screen, but actually get to be physically active while testing and improving motion-based games? This might be the job for you.

Key points about the role at a glance

✅ Physically active role. You'll be testing full-body games that involve climbing,

✅ Primarily on-site. The nature of the role means you'll need to be at our office 4+ days a week. You can't test a trampoline remotely.

✅ We're looking for someone with some experience in software or game quality assurance and testing. No strict educational requirements – if you can do the job, you can do the job.

✅ Act as our proxy end user. Beyond catching bugs, you're our most objective voice on how our games actually feel to play. Developers are too close to the work – you bring the fresh perspective.

✅ Small team, real ownership. 14 developers, no bureaucracy. You'll shape how QA is done here, not just follow someone else's process.

👉 We’re looking for a QA Specialist to join our team at Valo Motion, and this role is far from ordinary. You’ll be testing mixed-reality games where you use your body as the controller. Imagine climbing walls, jumping on trampolines, and playing on ValoArena while ensuring our games deliver a fun, seamless, and bug-free experience to players worldwide. Excited yet?

👋 Let us introduce ourselves quickly: our team is working at the intersection of gaming and physical activity. Our products ValoClimb, ValoArena, Groundfall and ValoJump combine mixed-reality games with real-world physical challenges like climbing walls and trampolines, creating engaging gaming experiences that encourage people, especially kids, to move more – while having fun!

If this sounds like the next possible career step for you, read on!

What is the role, and who would you be working with?

As the QA Specialist, you'll be ensuring our games are seamless, fun, and bug-free. This isn't your typical QA role: you'll actively jump, climb, and play to test our mixed-reality games and their unique physical challenges. You'll play a crucial part in delivering high-quality, movement-based gaming experiences for players around the world.

Beyond testing, you'll own and improve our existing quality assurance processes, taking initiative to improve workflows and helping streamline game releases.

👉 Whether it’s climbing walls, bouncing on trampolines, or battling in gaming arenas, your work will combine physical play with systematic problem-solving to ensure every player has an incredible experience!

Check out the behind-the-scenes game development process behind viral game Groundfall!

Your tasks include:

✅ Test our mixed-reality platforms (ValoClimb, ValoArena, ValoJump, Groundfall, ValoApp, Operations Hub) to replicate real-world experiences, identify issues and risks, and suggest improvements to testing processes and release workflows.

✅ Execute and maintain comprehensive functional tests and smoke tests for game updates, new features, and releases.

✅ Perform exploratory testing to uncover hidden issues while suggesting improvements to workflows and processes.

✅ Collaborate with developers and customer success teams to reproduce and troubleshoot bugs and ensure our products meet high-quality standards.

✅ Provide gameplay feedback to the team – acting as a proxy end user to give an objective perspective on how games feel to play.

✅ Maintain and refine QA documentation, ensuring test cases and pre-release checklists are up to date for all products.

✅ Monitor releases that are rolling out, ensuring releases run smoothly and without issues on customer systems.