QA Director in a Metaverse Project

As a Director, QA you will own the QA process for a large team, including people, process, and support for ongoing game development. You will also work with scrum masters, producers, and other leaders from teams across the company to craft and execute the Test Strategy that will help reach high-quality results.

Additionally, you will partner with teams to arrive at better, more efficient solutions to everyday problems and streamline delivery; support the QA Discipline leadership and help inform the long-term vision of the company's Quality Assurance. You will also lead vendors in performing black-box testing on features that need additional support. 

Responsibilities:

Oversee the QA organization for early-stage game development at the company

Create the vision for QA approach & philosophy in early-stage development across the company games and experiences

Deliver a comprehensive quality strategy for the BU that informs development strategy across all early-stage game development teams

Work with leadership of pre-production game teams to design and staff their QA organizations

Identify, recruit, interview, and hire QA leaders to help teams scale effectively

Mentor, onboard, and develop PQLs for the individual game teams, and oversee the results of the QA lead on those teams as they build their organizations

Build the central QA team that supports prototype team & central technology efforts and directly manage & guide the work of individual contributors on that team

Develop strategic  frameworks that empower teams to be held accountable for upholding quality and player impact as an essential factor in decision-making

Develop new QA leaders through mentorship and coaching

Mentor & manage QA professionals Establish partnerships with engineering, design, and art teams across the BU through which BU approach to quality is iterated and improved upon 

10+ years Quality Assurance Experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.4+ years managing QA professionals 

Experience managing managers

Experience building or refactoring scaled QA organizations

Experience leading teams within game development

Experience with product development pipelines and workflowsExperience with strategic goal setting, tactical execution

Experience working with remote testing teams

Experience shipping games on multiple platforms 

Development experience across several platforms; mobile, console, and PC.

Preferred Licenses/certifications: ISTQB Foundation LevelISTQB Agile Tester or ICAgile Agile Testing (ICP-TST)ISTQB Advanced Test Manager

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