Publishing Content QA Lead

4 Months ago • 3 Years + • Game Story Writing/Narrative Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As the Content QA Lead, you'll build and manage a team of QA Analysts (Narrative, Art, and Gameplay), ensuring quality and consistency across all game content. This involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, conducting risk analyses, overseeing QA milestones, and driving continuous improvement. Responsibilities include recruiting, mentoring, and developing the QA team, maintaining strong relationships with external partners, overseeing the QA process across content areas, partnering with other departments to align on quality standards, conducting risk analysis and implementing mitigation strategies, optimizing QA processes, and providing regular updates to stakeholders. The role requires strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a passion for delivering high-quality player experiences.
Must have:
  • 3+ years experience in a similar role
  • Strong knowledge of QA methodologies
  • Excellent leadership and collaboration skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Passion for high-quality player experiences
Good to have:
  • Experience with AAA games
  • Familiarity with content QA tools
  • Basic knowledge of game engines
Perks:
  • Flexible working hours
  • Welcome pack
  • Trainings and courses
  • Merch
  • Private medical healthcare
  • COVID-19 support
  • Psychological care
  • Multisport card
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Social events
  • Healthy selections
  • International working environment
  • Sustainable campus
  • Onsite gym
  • Car and bike parking
  • No dress code
  • Relocation support
  • Paid leave

Job Details

Company Description

To create revolutionary, story-driven RPGs which go straight to the hearts of gamers — this is our mission. Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social media and check out our YouTube channel where we share behind-the-scenes insights and stories direct from our team members!

Job Description

As the Content QA Lead in the Publishing QA department, you will build and manage a team of QA Analysts specializing in Narrative, Art, and Gameplay QA, ensuring the quality and consistency of all game content. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, conducting risk analyses, overseeing QA milestones, and driving continuous improvement. Your leadership will be essential to maintaining content integrity and delivering an outstanding player experience.

Daily Responsibilities

  • Recruit, mentor, and develop a cohesive team of Narrative, Art, and Gameplay QA Analysts. Provide feedback, guidance, and professional growth opportunities.
  • Build and maintain strong communication and relationships with external partners involved in multiple projects, ensuring alignment on quality standards and deliverables.
  • Oversee and drive the QA process across content areas, ensuring narrative elements, art assets, and gameplay features are thoroughly tested.
  • Partner with designers, developers, and project managers to align on quality standards and expectations, acting as a bridge between QA and other departments.
  • Conduct risk analysis, implement mitigation strategies, and ensure timely milestone verification for content-related releases.
  • Continuously optimize QA processes and foster a learning culture. Actively participate in recruiting and onboarding new team members.
  • Maintain transparency on QA status, risks, and opportunities, providing regular updates to stakeholders and ensuring alignment.

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience in a similar role within game development, ideally with a focus on content QA (Narrative, Art, Gameplay), including proven experience in managing teams.
  • Strong knowledge of QA methodologies with a focus on quality standards for narrative, art, and gameplay content.
  • Excellent leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with experience in risk analysis and mitigation for content.
  • Passion for delivering high-quality player experiences through exceptional content QA.

Nice to have
(Please note that these skills are not required to apply for the position)

  • Experience with AAA games or large publishing projects.
  • Familiarity with tools and software in content QA, including automation where relevant.
  • Basic knowledge in various commercial game engines.

Additional Information

Working mode

  • Office-First: working primarily from our Warsaw, Cracow or Wroclaw studio for a minimum of 3 days per week.

Perks & Professional Growth

  • Flexible working hours — start your workday anytime between 8:00 and 10:00 AM.
  • A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team.
  • Trainings, lectures and courses — internal workshops, external training for each employee, ‘Meet a star’ events, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available. There’s always something to learn!
  • Merch — gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!

Health & Well-being

  • Private medical healthcare — a selection of medical plans with dental care to choose from, which are also accessible for your partner and relatives.
  • Support during COVID-19 — regular tests and COVID vaccinations at the studio as well as professional advice and guidance from a specialist doctor.
  • Psychological care — free mental health support and various well-being webinars. 
  • Multisport card — gain access to a wide number of sporting and fitness facilities across the city.

Social Activities & Life in the Office

  • Dog-friendly office — dog owner? Bring your pooch with you and look after them while working! There’s always a furry friend or two to meet at the studio.
  • Social events — we host regular gatherings at the studio where we can all unwind, play games, and just have some fun together.
  • Healthy selections — ​​organic fruit, snacks, muesli, organic honey, vegan milk, and speciality coffee are all at your disposal around the studio. Enjoy!
  • Truly international working environment — a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.

Head office in Warsaw

  • Sustainable campus with an eco ethos — solar panels provide green energy, 2000 plants and an air-filtering system to help provide clean air, electric car charging points, flower meadows, and more green features in the works.
  • An onsite, well-equipped gym with a climbing wall, daily Gym Assistant support and yoga and healthy spine classes.
  • Car and bike parking spaces.
  • A designated space for your bicycle, as well as bicycle repair equipment and showers available whenever you need them.
  • No dress-code — we like to keep it casual.

Relocation support

  • Relocation package – flight ticket, company apartment for your first month, relocating your pet, shipping your belongings: it’s all covered. 
  • Relocation assistance — processing your legalization operations for you, assistance with finding residence, tax settlements - all you need to feel right at home is taken care of.
  • Polish lessons for foreign employees — and for your spouse or partner, too.
  • Paid Leave — from 20 to 26 days of holiday for every team member per year, paid sick leave, and paid maternity & paternity leave.

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About The Company

CD PROJEKT RED is home to over 1000 game-making professionals from all over the globe. We speak many different languages, but share one love — video games.


We are creators of The Witcher series of games, including the acclaimed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Most recently, we have created Cyberpunk 2077 and its spy-thriller expansion Phantom Liberty.


We are headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, with studios in Cracow and Wroclaw. In North America, we operate in Vancouver and will be opening a new studio in Boston to drive development on the followup to Cyberpunk 2077. 


We’re proud to have a gamer-first approach, a diverse & supportive culture, and a focus on mature, meaningful storytelling that will inspire gamers for years to come.


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