Escape Velocity Entertainment

Studio QA Director

Escape Velocity Entertainment

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Oversee and elevate the overarching quality standards for ambitious competitive, real-time multiplayer titles.
  • Guide the studio’s QA discipline to new heights, inheriting and iterating on established QA processes.
  • Partner closely with the Associate QA Director to drive day-to-day project testing and execution.
  • Focus on high-level studio strategy, QA budgeting, and ensuring live service operations run flawlessly across PC, console, and mobile platforms.
  • Shape the strategic QA infrastructure of a well-funded studio and guide testing strategy through pre-launch, launch, and years of live service content.

Requirements

  • Exceptional communication skills, capable of advocating for quality at the executive level while fostering a collaborative environment with production and development teams.
  • Extensive senior-level leadership experience (Director or equivalent) in game development QA, with a proven track record of shipping and sustaining large-scale, cross-platform live service games on PC, consoles, and mobile.
  • Deep expertise in managing and mentoring senior QA staff and overseeing large, distributed internal and external testing teams.
  • Comprehensive understanding of live service release management, including the intricacies of testing client features alongside backend services.
  • Expert-level knowledge of modern QA tools and environments, including a deep understanding of JIRA or similar programs with a focus on bug/defect tracking, as well as experience using UE4/UE5, Perforce, and Agile Development methodologies.
  • A strong sense of purpose and self-motivation, with an eye toward continuous improvement in both you and the people you work with.
Benefits
  • A generous PTO allowance
  • Summer and Winter holidays studio closure (separate to PTO allowance)
  • Private Medical & Dental Healthcare
  • Private Mental Health scheme
  • A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance
  • Discretionary Studio Bonus
  • Top range tech for your home set up
  • Other benefits based on your region
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
QA processeslive service release managementbug trackingdefect trackingAgile Developmentgame development QAmentoringtesting client featuresbackend servicescross-platform live service games
Soft Skills
communication skillsleadership experiencecollaborative environmentself-motivationcontinuous improvement