High standard of verbal and written English communication.
Strong focus and attention to detail.
Team player with the ability to work independently.
Experience managing a QA team in a AAA environment.
Proven record in building staffing plans and managing departmental budgets.
Minimum 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance for AAA PC and Console games.
Responsibilities
Manage team budget planning and headcount justifications.
Drive adherence to QA processes and workflows.
Improve operational efficiency through partner utilization.
Analyze data to formulate strategic performance improvement plans.
Audit and update Test Plans as necessary.
Timely and accurate reporting of data to QA leadership.
Formulate and assess risk strategies for multiple projects.
Benefits
Works in an independent AAA game company aiming to redefine the gaming industry.
Opportunity to partner with one of the largest publishers.
Focus on creating a healthy and rewarding workplace culture.
Engagement in innovative game creation processes.
Full Job Description
QA Manager
What are the job's responsibilities?
Manage and oversee your teams' operational budget planning, justifying necessary headcount and backfill requisitions, travel expenses, IT hardware.
Drive effective process usage within the QA team, ensure processes and workflows are well implemented, understood and followed by team members.
Deliver operational efficiencies through the effective use of partners.
Gather operational data to create strategic plans to drive team performance improvements in areas such as efficiency, cost, quality, etc.
Auditing Test Plans and making changes when necessary.
Ensure data and information is provided timely and accurately to QA leadership.
Formulate risk strategies; identify risks and all dependencies, including identifying critical paths and interactions.
Assess and control risk on multiple projects in conjunction with the overall departmental project plan escalate conflicts and other risks to upper management and/or stakeholders when necessary.
Analyze, quantify and plan the departmental resources needed for the successful execution of the projects in your location.
Participate in PM studio-wide process adoption as required.
Provide an accurate forecast of the controllable R&D expenses (staffing, CAPEX, contracted services, etc.).
Regularly measure the effectiveness of necessary change and formulate action plans to course correct or increase effectiveness.
What are the minimum requirements?
A high standard of verbal and written English.
Superb levels of focus and attention to detail.
A team player but also with the ability to work alone.
Experience managing a QA team in a AAA QA environment.
Experience in building staffing plans and managing departmental budgets.
Minimum 7 years' experience working on AAA PC and Console games as a Quality Assurance Manager.
What are some brownie points?
Experience in testing Unreal environments is an asset.
