QA LEAD

6 Months ago • 3 Years + • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

Larian Studios seeks a QA Lead to oversee and improve QA operations for multiple concurrent projects. Responsibilities include assigning tasks, fostering a positive team environment, conducting performance reviews, maintaining QA knowledge, facilitating postmortems and improvements, identifying and proposing solutions to issues, and creating/maintaining test plans. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years' experience in QA leadership, strong communication skills (English fluency is essential), expertise in cross-cultural collaboration, and a passion for video games. The role involves daily interaction with an international team.
Must have:
  • 3+ years QA leadership experience
  • Positive team attitude
  • Game production pipeline understanding
  • Strong written/verbal communication (English)
  • Cross-cultural team leadership
  • Task delegation skills
  • Critical analysis abilities
Good to have:
  • Jenkins and Perforce knowledge
  • Programming/scripting experience
  • Software/tool QA experience
  • JIRA, Confluence, Google Sheets familiarity
  • RPG genre expertise

Job Details

  • Location:
    Quebec
  • team: Quality Assurance
  • position: Full -time

QA Lead

With multiple awards to our name, Larian Studios has proven that we’re dedicated to delivering high-quality role-playing games. As we move on to new projects, the studio that brought you Baldur’s Gate 3 & Divinity: Original Sin 2 is looking for a QA Lead to join the team and help us in crafting the high caliber games our fans have come to expect

Responsibilities

• Perform consistent daily observation, research, review, and reporting of operations process adherence for all current assigned projects
• Assign tasks within the local QA team, and nurture a healthy working environment in alignment with company values
• Participate in the performance review process, help gather feedback, and share it with other QA teams internationally
• Maintain, advance, and promote knowledge in the field of quality assurance
• Gather feedback and data to create and facilitate both project postmortems and ongoing improvements
• Proactively identify possible issues, propose solutions, and plan goals for the QA department
• Overview, creation, maintenance, and prioritization of Test Plans for multiple, concurrent projects

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in QA operations in a leadership position
• Positive and team-oriented attitude
• Understanding of game production pipeline and tools
• Good judgment to estimate the significance and consequences of the bugs
• Rigorous and methodical, autonomous and resourceful approach
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English
• Expertise in cross-cultural business and remote team interaction and leadership
• Excellent ability to delegate tasks across a team
• Exceptional critical analysis skills
• Passion for video games

Nice to Have

• Basic knowledge of Jenkins and Perforce
• Experience in programming and/or scripting
• Experience in QA in software and tools
• Familiar with JIRA, Confluence, and Google Sheets
• Familiar with the RPG genre and you have played many RPGs extensively and critically 

We are looking for highly motivated individuals with ever-evolving skillsets and passion for player experience. If you want to contribute to making amazing RPG experiences, we would love to hear from you.

* Due to the global nature of our operations and the need to engage daily with an international team, fluency in English is essential for this position at Larian.

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