Test Manager – Quality Assurance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Lead the Quality Assurance efforts for a AAA game development team.

• Head embedded testing teams.

• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to manage quality, scheduling, and risk.

• Establish a global QA strategy, define test objectives, quality gates, and implement risk-based testing methodologies for significant project milestones.

• Incorporate QA into early development planning and throughout the feature lifecycle.

• Mentor and nurture QA Leads and testers.

• Oversee both internal and external QA resources.

• Supervise functional, gameplay, performance, stability, multiplayer, and platform certification testing.

• Track defect trends and quality risks, prioritizing critical issues until resolution.

• Analyze defect data to identify systemic quality issues, driving root-cause analysis and preventive measures.

• Relay emerging quality risks and technical assessments to Production and project leadership.

• Develop QA schedules and deliverables for key milestones.

• Evaluate build stability and readiness for release.

• Coordinate final regression and stabilization during release phases.

• Lead preparations for first-party certification and monitor submission risks.

• Champion quality as the senior QA representative within project leadership.

• Foster cross-disciplinary partnerships for shared ownership of quality.

• Manage external vendors and co-development QA teams.

• Implement data-driven reporting and dashboards to track build health, test coverage, and milestone progress.

• Enhance QA efficiency through automation, tooling, and process retrospectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software QA.

• More than 3 years of experience managing teams in game development.

• Proven success in shipping at least one major AAA title through the complete development lifecycle.

• Proficiency in developing testing strategies.

• Expertise in risk-based testing.

• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies.

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership.

• Familiarity with Unreal audio features, including Audio Mixer, MetaSounds, Sound Cues, Submixes, Quartz, and spatialization plugins (preferred).

• Knowledge of platform-specific audio constraints and certification considerations (preferred).

• Experience in developing editor tools and automating pipelines (preferred).

• Background in supporting large-scale content teams and multi-project shared technology (preferred).

• Experience with console certification, multiplayer/online services, and live-service operations (preferred).

• Familiarity with Jira, TestRail, automation, and telemetry (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote opportunities, accommodating team members from nearly anywhere in the world.

• Generous paid time off (PTO) allowance.

• Studio closure during summer and winter holidays, distinct from the PTO allowance.

• Private medical and dental healthcare coverage.

• Private mental health support program.

• Generous annual health and wellbeing allowance.

• Discretionary studio bonus.

• Top-tier technology for your home setup.

• Additional benefits based on your region.

• Freedom to determine your optimal working and leisure balance.

• Equal opportunity employer.