QA Lead (9-month contract)

The QA Lead will build and improve processes with publisher QA, internal QA, lead producers and directors. As well as communicating with the internal QA team as a whole in order to share knowledge and improve the QA group across the board. Actively participate in daily hands-on testing of complex features, builds, and gameplay systems to maintain deep project knowledge and ensure test coverage aligns with real-world play scenarios. Champion best practices for testing, testing processes and testing tools facilitating knowledge sharing between scrum groups. The QA Lead will assess and provide feedback on milestones and project status and direction, overseeing the creation, management and monitoring of tasks communicating status to the relevant stakeholders. They will partner with the dev team to proactively define and prioritize work to support the project. Ensure consistent knowledge-sharing, learning, documentation, as well as improving tools and processes as necessary for your team to excel. The candidate will troubleshoot and adapt to solve problems in dynamic, high-energy situations; providing daily leadership and development of an embedded QA team/s for end-to-end QA while proactively assessing and communicating the needs or progress of development partners, and how they relate to the QA team's priorities and tasks. Oversee the creation and maintenance of training, testing tools, plans, and supporting documentation.