Senior QA Lead

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**Craft:** Your role within our Kingdom

We are looking for an amazing Senior QA Lead with strong communication skills and the ability to guide, mentor, and develop a team of QA Specialists, whilst building a strong working relationship with everyone. We want to provide a safe environment for self-growth, which supports personal goal setting and offers constructive feedback, helping the team get the best out of their career through mentorship and training.

You will develop and train King's highly skilled QA team to deliver QA standard methodologies and testing, so having a QA background is meaningful. You’ll help with hiring, retention, onboarding new staff, helping to run performance reviews, and identifying any performance issues in the teams preventing them from reaching their best outcomes.

You will also be a part of our QA leadership team in Barcelona, helping to move our strategy forward, and continuously evolving the Central QA services we provide to our games.

Core responsibilities

1. Line manage, mentor and coach your team to improve their efficiency so that they become more productive over time
2. Analyze our different testing service processes and determine solutions where required
3. Hold 1-to-1 meetings with team members and stakeholders to ensure effective communication
4. Work closely with our Central QA team to optimize resource utilization to meet testing demands
5. Build objectives and key results for strategic directions based on team needs and process improvements
6. Create accurate action plans, estimations, and reports for future initiatives
7. Ensure your team has the resources they need to succeed
8. Deliver quality work with a good pace, balancing speed and quality
9. Promote awareness of team development and dynamics for long-term success
10. Help teams recognize healthy and unhealthy dynamics and mediate conflicts to find win-win solutions

Skills to create thrills

• Ability to build strong working relationships with peers and lead a team of 10-15 highly skilled people
• Practical experience in hiring and training QA Specialists, ensuring role clarity and alignment with company objectives
• Extended knowledge of QA processes, including Regression, Exploratory, and Performance testing
• People-oriented approach, empowering team members to perform at their best
• Strong project management skills to drive QA initiatives successfully
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills, capable of engaging large groups
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including proficiency in English (spoken and written)

About King

King is the game developer behind the Candy Crush franchise and other mobile hits like Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, holding this position for the last two years, with 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. Since its acquisition by Activision Blizzard in 2016, King employs nearly 2,000 people across studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

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