About the position
As a QA Lead at Socialpoint, you will be responsible for ensuring the highest quality standards and delivering flawless gaming experiences to our players. You will lead and guide a team of professional QA specialists to implement improvements, processes, and tools to achieve top-notch quality in our live games. This key role involves improving development processes, managing bug prevention and detection, reducing incidents through post mortems, and incorporating quality into the preproduction of new features. Additionally, you will own the roadmap for the QA team, support the Live Ops team in delivering new content, explore opportunities for test automation, and support the professional growth and motivation of your team.
Responsibilities
- Improve development processes from a quality perspective
- Bug management (prevention, detection, tracking)
- Reducing incidents & collecting learnings through post mortems
- Making sure quality is taken into account during preproduction of new features
- Managing test suites & external test runs
- Creating short-, mid- and long-term plans to improve quality metrics
- Owning the roadmap for the QA team
- Supporting the Live Ops team to deliver new content on a daily basis
- Exploring opportunities for test automation
- Supporting direct reports in their professional growth
- Maintaining a high level of motivation, engagement & work/life balance for the team
- Helping the team to collect feedback & identify improvement opportunities
- Hiring & onboarding new talent if needed
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in QA for mobile F2P games
- Experience with leading a QA team in a live game environment
- Experience as people manager (i.e. you were responsible for direct reports)
- Worked on a top grossing game with high-volume, fast-paced live ops
- Excellent communication skills, fluent in English
- Strategic thinking: assessing the situation, creating plans & executing them
- Constantly raising the quality bar for yourself and everyone around you
- Servant leadership, being able to get your team to the next level
- Experience with managing bugs through JIRA
- Managed test plans & runs with Testrails
- Worked in an Agile development environment with cross-functional pods/squads
- Created proposals, presented them to stakeholders & executed on them
Benefits
- Hybrid working from home/office system
- Newest and most powerful devices and equipment
- Spotify Premium account
- 25 days annual leave plus Christmas week
- Private medical insurance for you and your family
- Relocation support
- Choice of latest IOS or Android device
- Monthly meal allowance
- Yearly parent pack
- Free language lessons
- Training budget and internal mobility program
- State of the art gym facilities
- Monthly events to get to know colleagues
- Onsite physiotherapist
- Onsite hairdressers
- Equal opportunity employer