Sr. Manager, QA Engineering & Automation

CA - Canada. Posted 15 days ago

The role

You will lead the automation strategy for a live mobile game. You will build and lead an automation team, including hiring, processes, and mentorship.

What you will do

Define and execute the QA automation strategy for a live mobile game.
Build and lead an automation team from the ground up.
Design, build, and implement automated testing across various workflows.
Evaluate automation approaches, frameworks, platforms, and tools.
Establish automation standards, coding practices, and quality gates.
Partner with Engineering and QA to prioritize automation and integrate testing into CI/CD.
Provide hands-on technical leadership through framework design and code reviews.
Mentor manual testers in coding and automation skills.
Communicate quality risks, automation progress, and investment needs.
Champion quality and release excellence across the organization.

Required qualifications

8+ years of experience in QA, test automation, or quality engineering.
4+ years leading or building automation teams.
Proven experience creating automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure.
Experience evaluating automation approaches and tools.
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages.
Strong understanding of testing methodologies, automation architecture, coding practices, testability, and software development lifecycles.
Experience mentoring manual testers in coding, automation, and automated test-script development.
Proven ability to align Engineering and QA around automation and shared quality ownership.
Experience with mobile testing.
Familiarity with traditional and AI-assisted testing tools.
Experience with test management, defect tracking, source control, build systems, CI/CD, and release-management tools.

Nice to have

C# preferred
game-testing experience preferred
Experience working on a live mobile, free-to-play, or core game
Experience with mobile-device farms, emulators, simulators, or cloud-based device testing
Experience testing Unity, Unreal, or other game-engine-based products
Experience with API, backend-service, data, performance, load, or reliability automation
Experience automating live events, remote configuration, experimentation, monetization, or service-driven game features
Familiarity with AI-powered test generation, test maintenance, visual validation, defect triage, or code-assistance tools
Experience establishing automation metrics, quality dashboards, and engineering quality gates
Experience working across internal and external development partners

About the company

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company. They create, develop, publish, and live-operate a diversified portfolio of games played by millions of people.