Senior QA Manager

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • Game Production • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior QA Manager at King, you'll lead and manage a team of QA specialists, ensuring the exceptional quality of Candy Crush Soda Saga and other mobile games. Responsibilities include resource planning, coordinating releases, overseeing live operations, partnering with technical leads, and constantly improving team workflows. You'll foster career growth within the team, build a strong QA culture, and ensure flawless quality in recurring game updates. The ideal candidate possesses broad experience leading high-performing QA teams, deep expertise in QA practices within the games industry, and a proven track record of releasing live titles successfully.
Must have:
  • Lead and manage QA teams
  • Resource planning & management
  • Coordinate release process
  • Ensure efficient live operations
  • Partner with technical leads
  • Improve Ways of Working
  • Deep QA industry expertise
Good to have:
  • Mobile game development experience
  • Experience preparing quality metrics

Job Details

Craft:

Job Description:

Want to create the world’s best mobile games? Have you got the skills to make that happen? We’re looking for a Senior QA Manager to join our Kingdom. Our games are adored by hundreds of millions of people, and you’ll be helping build them. As well as contribute to the engines, systems and platforms that make them play brilliantly on any platform.

Your role within the Kingdom

If you want to create amazing user experiences and entertainment for millions of players to enjoy on the go then this is the right job for you. As a part of the Candy Crush Soda Saga team, you will own the QA craft and guide the team to ensure our game is brilliant to play and has crushing (pun intended) quality. We are looking for an experienced QA leader with a passion for levelling up teams and a track record of releasing live titles with flawless quality.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Lead and manage a team of QA specialists, fostering career growth and development, strong craft culture and building expertise

  • Resource planning and management to provide optimal QA coverage given our operational needs across the game

  • Coordinating the release process, taking accountability for the success of recurring game updates

  • Ensuring live operations are carried out in a timely and efficient manner

  • Partner with technical leads across the game organization to align on quality expectations

  • Constantly deep dive in team’s activity, relentlessly looking to improve Ways of Working

Skills to create thrills

  • Broad experience in leading high performing QA teams

  • Deep knowledge in recruiting, hiring and managing teams of QA Specialists

  • Experience in mentoring/coaching team members to improve their skills, and make them more effective.

  • Deep expertise of QA practices within the games industry

  • Complete understanding of the full development cycle, including test strategy definition, planning, acceptance criteria and test execution

  • Proficient English written and verbal skills

Bonus points

  • Experience in mobile game development

  • Track record of recurring releases of live titles

  • Experience preparing quality metrics and effectively engaging with stakeholders to set and drive quality goals 

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

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