Full-Time Lead QA

Main Goal: Maintaining and building upon the quality standards of PCF development projects by leveraging QA best practices and tools.

Crucial part of the QA Leadership team, working directly with developers and serving as a point of contact between feature owners, QA, and Production.

Collaboration: All branches of QA, Production, Developers / Feature Owners

Duties:

• Assigns, delegates, and supports individuals in their tasks, monitoring and reviewing progress.
• Provides constructive feedback and clear communications to enhance behavior and performance.
• Evaluates direct reports during periodic performance reviews.
• Fosters an engaging atmosphere and ensures a healthy work-life balance.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively with other Leads, Directors, departments, and project stakeholders.
• Follows the Director’s guidance/vision and implements it.
• Represents QA as a key pillar in project development.
• Identifies and reports on highest priorities and key QA health metrics.
• Monitors and improves project bug database health.
• Ability to proactively run and summarize feedback from internal playtests.
• Needs to thrive in a custom engine tool-driven environment, where automation, reusability, and scalability are expected.
• Use tools and scripts (Python) to test within the engine’s bespoke toolset.
• Be technically astute using and navigating a suite of tools that may need debugging and changing scripts or environments to test every type of game build scenario.

Must Have Qualifications:

• Strong emotional intelligence with capacity to coach and mentor ICs and Managers
• Expert understanding of project life cycle and its phases
• Strong reporting acumen with a keen understanding of key stakeholders
• Professional experience with multiple types of testing (FQA, LQA, Compatibility, Compliance, etc.)
• Expert in various QA best practices and methodologies
• Familiarity with a wide variety of tools used in QA testing
• Ability to forecast and mitigate risks
• Passion for video games and interest in developments in the gaming industry

Software: Gsuite Jira Confluence TestRail PS Neighborhood Xbox Manager

Experience: At least 7 years experience working in console / PC games including prior experience in any leadership capacity

Nice to Have Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in shooters or multiplayer games, either as a developer or player
• ISTQB certification
• Certification/Education in gaming-related fields
• Management experience outside of QA
• Game development experience

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