Job Description

Position Overview

• Location Type: Onsite (San Rafael, CA OR Santa Monica, CA)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: $80,000 - $120,000 per year (Base pay range)

This role seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented Quality Assurance (QA) Lead to guide day-to-day testing efforts for an upcoming video game title. The lead will combine leadership responsibilities with direct testing work, driving quality across the project by identifying issues, implementing and improving testing practices, and working closely with cross-disciplinary teams. This is a key role in ensuring the game meets high standards of performance, functionality, and player experience.

Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years of experience in QA for video games, with at least one product cycle in a lead QA role.
• Platform Testing: Experience testing on multiple platforms (PC, console, etc.).
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead small teams and coordinate with other departments.
• Communication: Strong bug-writing, test documentation, and communication skills.
• Knowledge: Solid understanding of the game development cycle and various QA methodologies.
• Tools: Comfortable working in JIRA, TestRail, or similar test case and bug tracking tools.
• Gameplay Understanding: Informed qualitative opinions on state-of-the-art 3rd person open-world gameplay, coupled with tactful feedback delivery.
• Adaptability: Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.

Responsibilities

• Daily Operations: Own daily QA operations across multiple test areas, including planning, task assignment, and issue prioritization.
• Direct Testing: Work directly in the game to test features, systems, and content across various platforms and development builds.
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a small team of in-house and/or outsourced QA testers, setting clear expectations and delivering ongoing feedback.
• Collaboration: Partner with production, design, engineering, and art teams to triage bugs, clarify issues, and validate fixes.
• Test Planning: Build and maintain detailed test plans, test cases, and regression sweeps.
• Player Experience: Champion the player experience by driving usability and edge-case testing.
• Risk Management: Identify risks, provide test coverage analysis, and help shape the overall quality strategy for the project.
• Milestone Support: Support milestone submissions with thorough smoke and regression testing.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to improving QA tools, workflows, documentation, and standards.

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Company Information

• Benefits: Full-time job with benefits including vacation time, sick time, company holidays, parental leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) match. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.