Senior QA Lead – Open‑World Multiplayer (Remote/Flexible)

Camwebdir; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Minimum 6% Pension contributions

Life Insurance

Enhanced family leave policies fromday

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave + Bank holidays &

Job summary

Jagex: The RuneScape Company in Cambridge is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to own testing for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a live‑service open‑world multiplayer game built in UE5. You will shape test strategies, drive quality, and ensure stability across systems from base building to combat.

As a senior, you will mentor teammates, collaborate with Live Ops, Localization, and Submission, and help define what great quality looks like for a continually evolving game.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing QA for multiplayer or live-service products, with hands-on expertise in networking, replication, persistence, matchmaking, and server performance testing.
• Strong understanding of open-world and multiplayer testing challenges, including streaming, AI interactions, server stability, desynchronisation, and save/load systems.
• Demonstrated ability to define and drive risk-based test strategies in a live-service environment, collaborating across cross-functional development teams.
• Experience testing compatibility, certification, and performance testing.
• In-depth knowledge of QA tooling (e.g. JIRA, Xray, TestRail) and familiarity with specialist debugging, profiling, or network analysis tools.
• Proven experience mentoring QA team members and contributing to the improvement of quality processes across a development organisation.

Responsibilities

• Own the testing strategy for RuneScape: Dragonwilds’ complex systems, ensuring every system delivers a fair, stable experience for players.
• Define and evolve test strategies leveraging Unreal Engine5, automation, telemetry, and profiling tools, driving quality at a level that matches the ambition of the game.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert across QA and gameplay domains, using player telemetry, defect trends, and exploit analysis to proactively surface risks before they impact players.
• Mentor and develop members of the QA team, raising the bar for multiplayer and live-service testing practice across the organisation.
• Partner across disciplines, from development and design to Live Operations, Localisation, and Submission, ensuring quality ownership and risk communication runs through every stage of development.

Skills

Multiplayer QA

Live-service testing

Networking & server testing

Mentoring

Risk-based testing

QA tooling

Tools

JIRA

Xray

TestRail

Profiling tools

Network analysis tools

Job description

Jagex: The RuneScape Company in Cambridge is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to own testing for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a live‑service open‑world multiplayer game built in UE5. You will shape test strategies, drive quality, and ensure stability across systems from base building to combat.

As a senior, you will mentor teammates, collaborate with Live Ops, Localization, and Submission, and help define what great quality looks like for a continually evolving game.