Lead QA Engineer

Playsimple Games Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Playsimple Games Private Limited in Bengaluru, India is seeking an experienced QA leader to define and drive quality across multiple teams and products. You will own QA strategy, planning, and governance, ensuring timely, high-quality software delivery.

You will build and mentor high-performing QA teams, implement automation frameworks, and collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to elevate quality and velocity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software quality assurance experience including leadership of QA teams.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, release management, and Agile delivery.
• Experience in people management, performance coaching, and building high-performing QA organizations.
• Ability to balance quality, business priorities, and delivery timelines with risk-based decisions.
• Experience driving test automation, QA tooling, and AI-assisted testing practices.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

QA leadership

Testing methodologies

Release management

Agile delivery

People management

Performance management

Coaching and succession

QA planning

Resource allocation

Automation initiatives

QA tooling

AI adoption in testing

Stakeholder management

Quality metrics reporting

Job description

Bangalore North, India | Posted on 07/28/2026

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.

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.