Sr. Manager, QA Engineering & Automation

Accountabilities

• Define and execute the overall QA automation strategy, establishing scalable frameworks, tools, testing standards, and quality gates for a live mobile game.

• Build and lead an automation engineering team, overseeing recruitment, team structure, onboarding, mentorship, performance development, and career progression.

• Design, develop, and implement automated testing solutions covering UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, mobile, and live-operations workflows.

• Assess and select automation frameworks, platforms, traditional testing solutions, and AI-assisted tools based on their effectiveness, scalability, maintainability, and business value.

• Establish automation architecture, coding standards, reporting mechanisms, observability practices, and quality metrics to support continuous delivery.

• Collaborate with Engineering and QA teams to improve testability, prioritize automation initiatives, integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and embed quality checks into the development lifecycle.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership through framework development, prototyping, code reviews, automation implementation, and test-script creation.

• Mentor manual QA professionals in programming and automation, helping them develop the technical skills needed to contribute to automated testing initiatives.

• Define and monitor key quality indicators, including test coverage, execution time, test stability, flakiness, and defect detection effectiveness.

• Communicate quality risks, automation progress, and resource requirements to stakeholders across Product, Live Operations, Marketing, Customer Support, Localization, and external development partners.

• Champion release excellence and a proactive quality culture, ensuring automation complements exploratory and risk-based testing rather than replacing it.

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of professional experience in QA, test automation, or quality engineering, including 4+ years of experience leading or building automation teams.

• Demonstrated experience developing automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure for complex software products, ideally from the ground up.

• Strong background in evaluating automation technologies, integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and supporting frequent production releases.

• Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages, with C# considered a strong advantage.

• Solid understanding of software testing methodologies, automation architecture, coding standards, software development lifecycles, and testability principles.

• Proven ability to mentor manual testers and support their transition into coding, automation, and automated test-script development.

• Experience aligning Engineering and QA teams around shared quality ownership, automation adoption, and continuous improvement.

• Familiarity with mobile testing environments and both traditional and AI-assisted testing solutions.

• Experience with test management systems, defect tracking platforms, source control, build systems, CI/CD tools, and release management processes.

• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to coordinate distributed teams effectively.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying quality risks and driving technical improvements.

Additional assets:

• Previous experience working on live mobile games, free-to-play titles, or core gaming products.

• Familiarity with mobile device farms, emulators, simulators, and cloud-based device testing platforms.

• Experience testing products developed with Unity, Unreal Engine, or other game development technologies.

• Knowledge of API, backend services, data, performance, load, and reliability testing automation.

• Experience automating live events, remote configurations, experimentation, monetization systems, and service-driven game features.

• Familiarity with AI-powered test generation, test maintenance, visual validation, defect triage, and code-assistance solutions.

• Experience building automation metrics, quality dashboards, and engineering quality gates.

• Previous collaboration with external development studios and international engineering teams.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to lead and build a QA automation function from the ground up.

• Remote working opportunities across the United States and Canada, with a hybrid option available in Culver City.

• The chance to contribute to an upcoming AAA mobile gaming project.

• A strategic leadership position with significant influence over engineering quality standards, automation architecture, and release processes.

• Opportunities to work with modern automation frameworks, emerging AI-assisted testing technologies, and scalable development infrastructure.

• Collaborative, cross-functional environment involving Engineering, QA, Product, and Live Operations teams.

• Professional development opportunities through team leadership, technical innovation, and organizational impact.