QA Manager

What you'll do

• Own QA delivery across the project or projects under your responsibility.
• Define project-level QA strategies, testing approaches, quality goals, and delivery expectations.
• Lead, support, and develop QA Leads and senior members of the QA team.
• Establish testing priorities, quality gates, and milestone readiness expectations.
• Review testing coverage, quality risks, delivery confidence, and project health.
• Own project-level QA reporting, forecasting, and stakeholder communication.
• Make resource planning and allocation decisions to support project needs.
• Manage escalations relating to quality, delivery, staffing, and operational concerns.
• Partner closely with Production, Development, and leadership teams to support project success.
• Drive continuous improvement across QA processes, workflows, tools, and methodologies.
• Support recruitment, career development, succession planning, and capability growth within the QA department.
• Ensure QA practices align with studio objectives, production goals, and business priorities.

What You Bring

• 12+ years of experience in QA within the games industry.
• Shipped at least 5 AAA titles through a full development cycle.
• Proven experience managing QA teams on large-scale game development projects.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, production processes, and project delivery practices.
• Experience defining QA strategies, quality objectives, and testing approaches at project level.
• Demonstrated success managing resources, priorities, and delivery expectations across multiple teams.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and people development skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience managing project-level quality risks, delivery concerns, and escalation paths.
• Ability to make informed decisions in complex and fast-moving development environments.
• Passion for quality, continuous improvement, and team development.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting multiplayer, live-service, or large-scale AAA productions.
• Experience with certification, compliance, and release management activities.
• Experience managing external QA partners, vendors, or outsourcing relationships.
• Strong understanding of Perforce, development pipelines, and game production workflows.
• Familiarity with Hunt: Showdown and its development challenges.
• Experience contributing to departmental strategy or organisational growth initiatives.