Lead QA Engineer

PlaySimple Games; Bangalore Rural; Presencial; INR 4.200.000 - 7.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

PlaySimple Games in Bangalore North, India, seeks a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to champion quality across product teams. You will define the QA strategy, drive automation initiatives, and mentor a growing QA organization in an Agile environment.

You will partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to raise delivery quality, implement AI-assisted testing, and establish metrics that inform leadership decisions.

Formación

• 10+ years of software quality assurance experience with a track record in leading QA teams.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, release management, and Agile delivery.
• Experience in people management, coaching, and career growth for QA teams.
• Ability to balance quality, business priorities, and delivery timelines with risk-based decisions.
• Driving test automation, QA tooling, and AI-assisted testing practices to boost velocity.

Responsabilidades

• Define and drive the overall QA strategy, roadmap, and quality vision across teams.
• Own QA planning, sprint allocation, workload balancing, and capacity management.
• Establish quality standards, release governance, and testing processes.
• Drive quality metrics, dashboards, trend analysis, and leadership reporting.
• Lead automation, QA tooling initiatives, and AI adoption for productivity.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing QA teams through coaching.
• Define hiring frameworks and participate in interviews; support onboarding.
• Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to improve delivery quality.

Conocimientos

QA leadership

Agile QA

Performance management

Test strategy

AI in testing

Stakeholder management

Quality metrics

Herramientas

Automation frameworks

AI-assisted testing tools

CI/CD tooling

Descripción del empleo

Bangalore North, India | Posted on 11/12/2026

We are one of India’s most exciting & fast-growing mobile gaming companies. Founded in 2014, and creating a global mobile gaming landscape in partnership with Modern Times Group (MTG), our Vision is to create simple, impactful casual game experiences at a massive scale. Since our inception, we have built a worldwide network of chart-topping games, and powerful tech & analytics infrastructure to turbocharge their growth. Our product portfolio consists of evergreen hits like Daily Themed Crossword, WordTrip, WordJam, WordRoll, TileMatch, Jigsaw, Wordy, 2248 Number Merge,Word Search Solitaire and Many more.

Asa Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, you will define the quality vision,strategy, and roadmap across teams. You will lead large-scale qualityinitiatives including the integration of AI-driven testing and automationcapabilities mentor engineers, and ensure that quality remains a coreengineering principle across the organization.

What’s required of you

• 10+ years of software quality assuranceexperience, with a proven track record of leading, mentoring, and developing QAteams.
• Strongunderstanding of software testing methodologies, QA principles, releasemanagement, and cross-functional delivery in Agile environments.
• Demonstratedexperience in people management, including performance management, coachingteam members, supporting career growth, and building high-performing QAorganizations.
• Pragmaticdecision-making ability to balance high-quality standards, business priorities,and delivery timelines while making informed, risk-based decisions.
• Experiencedriving test automation, QA tooling, and innovation, including evaluating andintegrating AI-assisted testing practices to improve team velocity andefficiency.
• Strongcommunication and stakeholder management skills, with the proven ability toinfluence cross-functional decisions through data, metrics, and clear qualityinsights.
• Provenexperience in QA planning, resource allocation, and capacity management, with atrack record of scaling quality frameworks across multiple teams.

What we are looking for

• Define and drive the overall QA strategy,roadmap, and quality vision across multiple teams and products.
• Own QA planning, including sprint POCallocation, workload balancing, and capacity management.
• Establish quality standards, testing processes,and release-governance mechanisms across teams.
• Drive quality metrics, dashboards, trendanalysis, and leadership-level reporting.
• Lead initiatives around automation frameworks,QA tooling, productivity improvements, and AI adoption.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing QAteams through coaching, feedback, and succession planning.
• Define hiring frameworks, participate ininterviews, and establish onboarding and capability-development programs.
• Partner with engineering, product, and businessteams to improve delivery, quality, and operational excellence.

AI Skills

• Deep understanding of emerging AI capabilitiesin software testing.
• Ability to evaluate new tools, workflows, andindustry practices.
• Passion for continuously evolving the QAfunction through innovation.