Contractor Development Game QA Lead

As a Development Game QA Lead at Endava Games, you will own the test plan and coordinate QA efforts to provide coverage for development and publishing teams.

100% Remote position. Working with a multinational team on AA or AAA games in an Unreal Engine.

Get to experience working on diverse projects within the game space. Reports to: Quality Assurance Manager.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of Games QA Testers.
• Be the representation of Quality and Game Testing support on your product.
• QA Support and Leadership:
  • Be the key Quality practices leader in team and product meetings.
  • Gather testing requirements and pass down the day-to-day focus to the rest of your QA team.
  • Active support and management of the QA database.
  • Review all issues entered by your team to ensure high quality standards and best practices.
  • Build test and support plans alongside your QA Manager to ensure your game’s quality.
  • Participate in the definition and improvement of ENDAVA’s QA standards, workflows, and reporting.
  • Produce QA reporting on a daily, weekly, and milestone cadence.
• Project Management:
  • Coordinate daily tasks, build delivery, downtime, and report/flag quality issues.
  • Monitor daily test results and team productivity.
  • Review daily tasks and team flags.
  • Build and maintain project documentation and team spaces.
  • Provide client-facing/client-centric breakdown of project health and own the test team’s progress.
• Resource Management:
  • Onboard, train, and mentor new and current testers.
  • Coaching and team performance management.
  • Provide real-time feedback during testing.
  • Meet with your team 1-on-1 and help with their career development.
  • Participate in future hiring rounds.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience as Games QA Lead.
• Minimum 4+ years of testing experience in games on multiple platforms.
• Shipped at least 2 console or PC games as QA Lead.
• Self-motivated, driven, and strong client-facing skills.
• Well-organized and maintains high standards.
• Mastery of production pipeline tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.).
• Strong communication skills (English, oral and written).

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in managing remote teams.
• Development QA experience (Unreal, Unity, etc.).
• Building, creating, maintaining CI/CD tools.
• Passion for games.
• Strong emotional intelligence and “people-first” approach.
• Understanding of KPIs for product quality.
• Technical skills (VBA, Jira analytics, etc.).

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