Lead QA Tester

Streamline is a creative development studio specializing in full video game development, interactive digital assets, and metaverse creation. Our reputation is we provide experienced professionals to help bring the most demanding projects from concept all the way through production with our technical knowledge of established industry standards for high-performance results along every step. And that means when you come to work at Streamline, expect to be challenged like you’ve never been challenged before.

We are a games company, a creative company, and people who work fast under pressure—a productive attitude is critical to a high-functioning team. Our goal is to keep the process straightforward.

Streamline Values

• Discipline
  Doing what needs to be done – without being told
• Communication
  Double-triple checking information, tasks, project state
• Responsibility
  Delivering work on-time, on-budget, at quality, without having to rework it
• Accountability
  Accepting/learning from failures without blaming others
• Mastery
  Putting in the effort to work, grow, & become the best we can be

Description

The Lead QA will work closely with QA Director and Testing team to take ownership of QA coverage for all Applications/Games/Web products from Planning to Release phase. They are in charge of making sure Test plans are covered efficiently and with highest QA standards.

Your main responsibilities will include to create Test plan, mentor juniors, and provide on-site core-testing support to the team. The Lead QA will also need to track QA team’s performance on daily base and organise various QA reports and participate in production bug triaging discussions.

They will also need to track and maintain the QA KPI for projects and compile them into weekly/monthly reports for production.

Key Accountabilities

Lead QA Tester will be measured according to the metric below, on a five (5) score rating scale:

Accountabilities

• Test Planning
  • To create Test plan for platforms based on Milestone of project from production and to maintain 90% accuracy of utilized resource throughout the test cycle.
    
• Test suite Management
  • To create test suites based on feature requirements for all permutation from golden path and edge case scenarios.
  • To achieve 85% of Game features to be translated to Test suite.
    Remainder 15% can remain adhoc based testing.
    
• Test Reporting
  • To create build and milestone Test report with QA and Task details.
  • As per cadence, requirement is to achieve 100% cadence of build reports.
    
• Mentorship
  • Maintain a detailed tracker and succession planning for strengths and weakness of teammates and action plan to have them covered.
  • Maintain a performance 1:1 with all subordinates at least once a month.
    
• Test executions
  • Should perform Test executions for complex systems with 90% accuracy for bug isolations and bug reports
    
• Risk Assessments
  • Perform periodic risk assessments of Build and milestones.
  • To maintain 1 Risk assessment per week (minimum)

Key Competencies

Lead QA Tester will possess the following competencies: 

Competencies

• Test Methodologies expertise
  • Should have experience and knowledge of all crucial test methodologies required during different phases of testing like – Unit testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing, Performance testing and compatibility testing, SIT and UAT.
• People Management
  • Should have experience in handling small to mid-size teams, to set KPIs for different level of testers and to organize them into performance tracking metrics.
• Communications
  • Should be able to maintain effective communication between Team members and with production team members on all sort of QA activities and build status.
• Documentation
  • Can write documentations on tools and test processes required during QA onboardings, project coverage and Client knowledge on testing.
• Troubleshoot
  • Ability to properly troubleshoot issues and identifying the cause and possible solution of the issue from testing teams at ground level
• Test tools knowledge
  • Should have operational knowledge to work on JIRA, Confluence, MS office, Test Rail etc
    
• Platform knowledge
  • Should have SDK operational knowledge to work on Test kits for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and have basic knowledge on platform related Compliance FTC for one or two consoles