Quality Assurance Manager

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

Atomic Arcade is a brand-new video game development studio located in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area led by industry veterans from AAA game and film studios. We are in the process of staffing up our development team with outstanding talent to build our first multi-platform, AAA game - a bold and contemporary new take on the GI JOE Universe starring the legendary character Snake Eyes!

This is an excellent opportunity to not only build an outstanding AAA experience but to also help form the core foundations for the studio and team to build upon. We are proud to be part of Wizards of the Coast which is a division of Hasbro.

What You'll Do:

We’re looking for an expert QA Manager for our development team. In this role you will be crafting, implementing and guiding the quality strategy for our studio and projects, partnering with other discipline leads, innovating and improving our quality processes to deliver an AAA experience for our players. You will leverage your passion for leading and mentoring experienced QA professionals in an exciting, fast-paced environment to build and lead a innovative AAA QA department.

• Build. lead, and mentor a team of QA analysts, providing guidance, training, and feedback that steers them to success.
• Develop and implement a QA strategy for staffing, execution and innovation to ensure our project and product meets our studios AAA standards and project goals.
• Leverage a variety of testing techniques across our product to effectively analyze the quality of our game.
• Identify improvement and innovation opportunities in existing quality approaches and provide recommendations of new ones where they are needed and impactful.
• Create acceptance criteria, identify risks, and plan testing coverage for our teams and game.
• Define and use critical metrics and data to inform testing priorities and outline risks on a project level, providing clear escalation paths for multiple levels of ownership in QA.
• Work with other departments and teams to set and maintain quality bars and standards.

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years of QA experience, with at least 4 years in a leadership/management level having worked through a full development cycle from concept to release.
• Shown capability in leading and developing teams of QA professionals directly embedded with the development team and externally located.
• Strong understanding of the importance of multiple testing strategies, including verification and validation testing, usability testing, security testing, performance testing, first party compliance, accessibility, ect.
• Excellent leadership skills, including mentorship, planning technical roadmaps, making trade-offs, and prioritization
• Ability to design solutions for development and QA when solutions do not exist within the space required
• Exposure/experience with Unreal Engine.
• Experience leading QA in a game development team working with cross functional teams composed of multiple development disciplines.
• Strong proficiency with JIRA.
• Deep understanding of risk, specifically how to identify, classify, report on, and handle it.
• Strong communication skills at the individual and team level and the ability to thrive while working in a fast paced working environment.

Compensation Range, Currency USD:

• Starting Pay Range: $93,600
• Pay Range End: $179,300

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation range for this role. The range listed is just one component of Wizards of the Coast’s total compensation package for employees. Employees may also be eligible for annual and long-term incentives. In addition, Wizards of the Coast provides a variety of benefits to employees. Here’s a look at what your benefits package may include: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Paid Vacation Time & Holidays, Generous 401(k) match, Paid Parental Leave, Volunteer Program, Employee Giving & Matching Gifts Programs, Tuition Reimbursement, Product Discounts, and more.

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