About this role
What you'll do
- Own QA delivery across the project or projects under your responsibility.
- Define project-level QA strategies, testing approaches, quality goals, and delivery expectations.
- Lead, support, and develop QA Leads and senior members of the QA team.
- Establish testing priorities, quality gates, and milestone readiness expectations.
- Review testing coverage, quality risks, delivery confidence, and project health.
- Own project-level QA reporting, forecasting, and stakeholder communication.
- Make resource planning and allocation decisions to support project needs.
- Manage escalations relating to quality, delivery, staffing, and operational concerns.
- Partner closely with Production, Development, and leadership teams to support project success.
- Drive continuous improvement across QA processes, workflows, tools, and methodologies.
- Support recruitment, career development, succession planning, and capability growth within the QA department.
- Ensure QA practices align with studio objectives, production goals, and business priorities.
What You Bring
- 12+ years of experience in QA within the games industry.
- Shipped at least 5 AAA titles through a full development cycle.
- Proven experience managing QA teams on large-scale game development projects.
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, production processes, and project delivery practices.
- Experience defining QA strategies, quality objectives, and testing approaches at project level.
- Demonstrated success managing resources, priorities, and delivery expectations across multiple teams.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and people development skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Experience managing project-level quality risks, delivery concerns, and escalation paths.
- Ability to make informed decisions in complex and fast-moving development environments.
- Passion for quality, continuous improvement, and team development.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting multiplayer, live-service, or large-scale AAA productions.
- Experience with certification, compliance, and release management activities.
- Experience managing external QA partners, vendors, or outsourcing relationships.
- Strong understanding of Perforce, development pipelines, and game production workflows.
- Familiarity with Hunt: Showdown and its development challenges.
- Experience contributing to departmental strategy or organisational growth initiatives.