QA Manager.

Games Jobs Direct; Royal Leamington Spa; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game studio in Royal Leamington Spa is looking for a QA Manager to ensure high-quality deliverables and effective team management. The ideal candidate has AAA game development experience, strong communication skills, and a passion for video games. This is a permanent position with a hybrid work model, providing an opportunity to work within a talented team and contribute to the success of world-class games.

Qualifications

• Experience with testing strategies and bug prevention.
• Proven management experience within a QA department.
• Ability to mentor and develop team members.

Responsibilities

• Provide insights and drive key decisions for the project.
• Create bug strategies and track performance metrics.
• Act as an advisor to the Leadership Team.

Skills

Experience working in-house with a development team on current-gen consoles

Full game cycle experience on AAA titles

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Passion for video games

Job description

About the role

As QA Manager you will be working with the Quality Assurance team to deliver high-level deliverables. You will use your observation skills to help ensure that all work is bug free and of the highest possible quality.

Our ideal candidate is a proven QA Manager who is passionate about games, has excellent communication skills, with experience developing robust test strategies and building an effective team.

This is a permanent role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa, with a hybrid work model in place, we're at the studio minimum 3 days a week. Relocation assistance is available if required.

What you’ll do

• Provide deep insight and drive critical decisions that benefit the project
• Understand project requirements to set test strategy for project
• Understand the needs of external partners and ensure these are met by internal QA teams
• Create bug strategies to help deliver features and close out a project
• Identify risks and resolve complex issues via an established process and risk mitigation strategies
• Determine and track performance metrics for the team to measure progress and success
• Act as a trusted resource and advisor to the Leadership Team
• Build an effective team and develop senior leaders for the future
• Mentor and line manage the QA department
• Understand project requirements to set hiring plans and resource allocation for project
• Use an understanding of the development lifecycle and previous shipping experiences to advocate for improvements

What you’ll bring

• Experience working in-house with a development team on current-gen consoles
• Full game cycle experience on AAA titles
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• An eye for detail
• A genuine passion for video games

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world‑class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry's most exciting first‑party game studios.

Playground Games is proud to an equal‑opportunity employer; we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self‑development, career progression, well‑being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

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