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Senior Director, Automation

2K Games is seeking a Senior Director, Automation to champion testing evolution across their studios. This role involves defining, developing, and implementing software solutions for debugging games and associated tools. The director will establish and sustain the vision for automation teams, design and maintain an extensible test automation framework, and collaborate with development and functional test teams to enhance automated testing efficiency. Key responsibilities include leading automation Tech Directors, mentoring teams, and leveraging emerging technologies like AI and machine learning to boost development velocity and product quality. The position also requires participation in automation project planning, providing technical leadership, and collaborating with studio leadership for technical improvements, while maintaining oversight of architectural decisions. The role emphasizes engineering standard methodologies, shared tools, and research into new technologies to enhance game technology.

<div>Who We Are Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment. Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM. At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).&nbsp; &nbsp; What We Need The Sr. Director, Automation works with the SVP of Shared Development Studios and is the champion of evolving testing across our studios. This person will guide the test effort to better define, develop and implement software solutions that will assist in the debugging of 2k games and their associated tools. &nbsp; What You’ll Do <ul> <li>Establish, communicate, and sustain the vision for the automation teams.</li> <li>Design, build and maintain an extensible test automation framework.</li> <li>Work closely with Development and the functional test teams to develop efficient tests through automation.</li> <li>Lead and champion the automation Tech Directors in support of career growth, team mentorship and providing a clear north star.</li> <li>Lead the use of emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and Automation solutions to accelerate development velocity and improve the quality of our products.</li> <li>Participate in proactive automation project planning, and be able to understand the technical breakdown of projects.</li> <li>Collaborate with multi-functional studio leadership to collect and implement opportunities for technical improvement.</li> <li>Responsible for studio engineering standard methodologies, including shared tools and technology.</li> <li>Partner with Technical Directors to research new technologies to continually improve our game technology.</li> <li>Maintain oversight of large architectural decisions being made at the project level.</li> </ul> &nbsp; What Makes A Great Fit <ul> <li>8+ years previous work experience as a technologist.</li> <li>5+ years in a leadership role as a people focused mentor and lead.</li> <li>Knowledge of professional software engineering standards for the full software development process. Including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and live operations.</li> <li>Experience in architecting and building test automation frameworks, preferably for testing large-scale live service games.</li> <li>Proven track record of leading teams focused on extensive testing of games Infrastructure for Load, Stress, Scalability, Performance and Reliability.</li> <li>Ability to offer technical expertise, solution architecture guidance and mentoring to developers on various game / tech teams.</li> <li>The ability to influence Dev culture and a desire to keep communication channels as transparent as possible.</li> <li>Experience creating impactful processes to identify and develop talent within the Automation Department.</li> <li>Successful track record establishing and leading multi-location development operations as well as experience leading implementation management.</li> </ul> &nbsp; As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, to perform their crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if reasonable accommodation are needed. &nbsp; Please note that 2K and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, we only use 2K.com accounts.</div>

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