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Sr. Manager, QA Engineering & Automation
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Role overview
Lead the quality automation strategy for a live mobile game, building the team, frameworks, and practices needed to support frequent releases and a large player base. The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical direction and close partnership across engineering, QA, and live operations.
Responsibilities - Set standards, tooling, frameworks, and quality gates for automated testing across mobile, UI, APIs, integration, regression, and end-to-end workflows. - Build and develop an automation team, including hiring, team structure, mentorship, and career growth. - Integrate automated tests into CI/CD, improve product testability, and establish shared ownership of quality with engineering and QA. - Provide technical leadership through framework design, prototypes, code reviews, and test implementation. - Track coverage, stability, flakiness, execution time, and defect detection; communicate risks and investment needs to stakeholders. - Evaluate automation platforms and traditional or AI-assisted approaches while preserving exploratory and risk-based testing.
Requirements - At least 8 years in QA, test automation, or quality engineering, including 4 or more years building or leading automation teams. - Experience creating automation strategy, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure for complex products. - Hands-on programming ability; C# is preferred. - Knowledge of testing methods, automation architecture, coding practices, software lifecycles, and CI/CD integration. - Experience mentoring manual testers in coding and automated test development. - Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder leadership skills, including work with distributed teams. - Familiarity with mobile testing, test management, defect tracking, source control, build systems, and release management.
Nice to have
Experience with live, free-to-play, or core games; device farms or cloud device testing; Unity or Unreal; backend, performance, load, or reliability testing; and automation for live events, remote configuration, experimentation, or monetization.