QA Manager

50 Minutes ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The QA Manager will lead a team of QA Engineers, driving gameplay testing and polish efforts for games. This involves creating test strategies, executing tests, and reporting defects. Responsibilities include resource planning, test plan creation, collaboration with game teams, and integrating automation solutions. The role also involves reporting on defect patterns, providing recommendations, and mentoring the team. The team is focused on creating community-driven gaming experiences, developing live service multiplayer games, and original IPs, with studios and teams spread across multiple locations.
Must have:
  • Experience in quality assurance teams management
  • Experience managing manual testers
  • Experience in QA within the Games industry
  • Experience in shipping titles from a QA leadership position
  • Deep knowledge of QA test practices
  • Excellent English written and verbal skills
Good to have:
  • Experience preparing quality metrics and engaging stakeholders
  • Experience communicating with development teams
  • Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and managing QA Engineers

Job Details

DESCRIPTION

Welcome to Amazon Games Bucharest! Joining the ranks of the existing development teams in Orange County, Montreal, San Diego and Seattle, we’re excited to expand Amazon Games’ commitment to creating and publishing incredible games, and we’re on the lookout for talented folks to join us as we grow.

We are looking for an experienced quality assurance leader with a track record of delivering QA services on both in development & live titles. In this role, you will closely collaborate with development teams and QA partners, and drive gameplay testing & polish effort on the game, through test strategies, test executions & defect reporting. This is an opportunity to set a functional quality benchmark on Amazon Games titles.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead and manage a team of QA Engineers, fostering career growth, job expertize building and strong team culture
• Resource planning and resource management to correctly cover the assigned project on its timeline
• Test strategy, analyze game scope and features, drive and deliver test plans creation with value based test cases on assigned project.
• Partner with game teams and Dev QA, and sync on design intents and quality expectations on all game areas.
• Partner and integrate automation solutions and available test and game data in test strategy, resource planning and test executions
• Deliver complete testing coverage, ensure the reporting of all quality defects on assigned project with high accuracy and efficiency
• Deliver internal project reports, highlighting defect patterns and quality risks and provide recommendations to Production partners
• Constantly deep dive on team’s activity, obsessing over defects diversity, their quality and accuracy in providing actionable insights for Production teams.


About the team
At Amazon Games, our ambition is to create bold new experiences that foster community in and around our games. Our team of game industry veterans is developing and publishing live service AAA multiplayer games and developing original IPs, including New World: Aeternum and an upcoming title based on The Lord of the Rings, with our studios and teams in Seattle, Orange County, San Diego, Montreal, and Bucharest. Amazon Games also publishes best-in-class games in close collaboration with developers, leading with Lost Ark from Smilegate RPG, THRONE AND LIBERTY from NCSOFT, and King of Meat from Glowmade, as well as the next major entry in the Tomb Raider series from Crystal Dynamics.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in quality assurance teams management
- Experience managing manual testers
- Experience in QA, in the Games industry, with evidenced Triple A HD titles testing.
- Significant experience in shipping titles from a QA leadership position.
- Deep knowledge of QA test practices for the full development life cycle, including test strategy definition, test plans & test cases creation, JIRA management, resource investment and test executions monitoring.
- Excellent English written and verbal skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience preparing quality metrics and effectively engaging with stakeholders to set and drive quality goals
- Experience in communicating with development teams across all job functions to collect feature design intentions and quality expectations and translate that into test strategy and test plans.
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of QA Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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About The Company

Amazon Game Studios is the publishing studio of Amazon, with the MMO 'New World' being one of its major releases.

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