QA Manager - Unannounced Project

The role

You will lead an Automation and Services QA team for a cross-platform Strategy/MMO title on PC and Mobile. You will own QA across Automation, Server Scalability, Build and Release, Web Admin Tools, and Cloud Operations Pods.

What you will do

• Lead and develop QA teams, aligning work with project goals and quality standards.
• Own QA planning and delivery across pods and communicate risks to stakeholders.
• Lead the automation strategy, roadmap and backlog.
• Integrate automation into build and release pipelines.
• Own the QA approach for backend functionality, integrations, scalability and resilience.
• Cover accounts, authentication, payments, analytics pipelines and admin tools.
• Perform load and disaster recovery testing.
• Ensure Services QA has reliable environments.
• Own release process testing and provide go/no-go recommendations.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, software development or a related field.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing QA teams or technical testing functions.
• 2+ years leading testing initiatives across development and release cycles.
• Proven experience managing test automation, including strategy, backlog ownership, maintenance, delivery and measurable return on investment.
• Strong understanding of backend and API testing, service integrations, data validation and the risks associated with accounts, analytics and payments.
• Experience overseeing performance, load or scalability testing, and working with Engineering on service reliability and recovery testing.
• Working knowledge of test environments, cloud-hosted services, build and release pipelines, and deployment validation.
• Strong grounding in risk-based testing, defect management and QA tooling such as Jira, test management systems and reporting dashboards.
• Technical judgement to review testing and automation approaches, challenge assumptions and communicate effectively with engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to manage people, capacity, priorities and costs, with strong communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting PC and Mobile releases and live-operation workflows, including patch validation, incident response and ongoing quality monitoring.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted test automation, particularly Nunu AI

About the company

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company. It creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates a diversified portfolio of games across mobile, web, PC, and console.