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What You Will Do
- Own end-to-end quality strategy for your cluster, ensuring high confidence releases and strong player experience across all pods
- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing QA team, including hiring, mentoring, and driving performance excellence
- Demonstrate excellence in team management, task management, and cross-pod coordination, ensuring optimal planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple workstreams
- Define and drive test strategy, coverage, and risk-based validation approaches across features, content, and technical initiatives
- Champion a shift-left approach, actively contributing during design and early development phases to identify risks, gaps, and quality concerns
- Approach validation with a product and player-first mindset, evaluating features not just from a QA perspective but from an end-user and business impact standpoint
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Art to influence quality decisions, ensuring alignment with player expectations and business goals
- Establish, maintain, and analyze quality metrics and reports (defect leakage, coverage, cycle time, live issues), ensuring data is tracked effectively and used to drive continuous improvement
- Own release quality and risk assessment, providing clear recommendations and participating in Go/No-Go decisions
- Drive automation and efficiency initiatives, including leveraging modern tools and exploring AI-driven approaches to improve scalability and effectiveness
- Manage and collaborate with external QA partners, ensuring clear expectations, high-quality output, and effective utilization
- Maintain strong visibility across stakeholders by proactively communicating progress, risks, and blockers
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of QA experience, including 3+ years in a QA leadership or people-management role
- Proven ability to build, lead, mentor, and upskill QA teams while driving performance and accountability
- Strong experience in team planning, task prioritization, capacity management, and cross-functional coordination across multiple pods or workstreams