QA Manager: AI-Powered Automation & Backend Services

the hive; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely is seeking a QA Manager to lead Automation & Services QA for a cross-platform Strategy/MMO title on PC and Mobile. You will head a small Automation team using Nunu AI as its foundation, and work with Engineering, Production and QA to own QA across automation, server scalability, build/release, web admin tools and cloud operations.

You will guide QA strategy, plan testing across backend services, accounts, analytics and payments, and drive risk-based testing with robust reporting

Qualifications

• ≥6 years in Quality Assurance or related field.
• ≥3 years leading QA teams; ≥2 years leading testing across development and release cycles.
• Proven experience in test automation strategy, backlog ownership, maintenance and delivery.
• Strong backend and API testing, service integration, data validation and risk in accounts/payments.
• Experience with performance, load, or scalability testing and service reliability.
• Knowledge of test environments, cloud services, build/release pipelines and deployment validation.
• Proficient with QA tooling like Jira, test management systems and dashboards.
• Technical judgement to review and improve testing approaches.
• Ability to manage people, priorities, and budgets with strong communication.
• Experience supporting PC and Mobile releases and live-ops workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop QA teams, aligning their work with project goals, quality standards and development priorities.
• Own QA planning and delivery across your pods, and communicate quality risks and trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Define automation roadmap and backlog, prioritizing by risk and ROI; integrate automation into build and release pipelines.
• Own QA for backend functionality: accounts, analytics, payments, admin tools; ensure testability and measurable quality.
• Ensure reliable environments and release readiness; provide go/no-go decisions backed by evidence.

Skills

QA Leadership

Test Automation

Backend & API Testing

Cloud & Deployment Pipelines

Risk-based Testing

Stakeholder Management

Performance/Load Testing

Tools

Jira

Test Management Systems

Reporting Dashboards

Job description

Scopely is seeking a QA Manager to lead Automation & Services QA for a cross-platform Strategy/MMO title on PC and Mobile. You will head a small Automation team using Nunu AI as its foundation, and work with Engineering, Production and QA to own QA across automation, server scalability, build/release, web admin tools and cloud operations.

You will guide QA strategy, plan testing across backend services, accounts, analytics and payments, and drive risk-based testing with robust reporting