Senior QA Engineer

PlaySimple Games; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PlaySimple Games is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to lead QA efforts across complex systems, leveraging AI tools and automation to optimize testing workflows. You will drive process excellence, ensure release readiness, and mentor QA engineers to raise testing quality.

The role demands 7–10 years of QA experience, strong SDLC knowledge, and proven leadership in coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable gaming products.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of software quality assurance experience.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, testing methodologies, and release management.
• Proven leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across teams.
• Track record of improving product quality and team effectiveness.
• Experience leading QA strategy, automation frameworks, and standards.

Responsibilities

• Act as QA POC for large or risky features with backlog prioritization.
• Drive release readiness and provide risk reporting with mitigations.
• Analyze support trends to improve test coverage and prevent bugs.
• Define and execute overall QA strategies, automation, and standards.
• Review product specs early to provide strategic feedback.
• Champion AI-driven testing tools and workflows to boost velocity.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to optimize delivery.
• Mentor QA engineers to elevate testing design quality.

Skills

QA Leadership

SDLC Knowledge

Testing Methodologies

Stakeholder Management

Ambiguity Management

Quality Improvement

Automation Frameworks

AI Tools

Tools

Automation Frameworks

AI Tools

Job description

Bangalore North, India | Posted on 08/07/2026

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.

We are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer who can leadquality efforts across complex systems, drive process excellence, and leverageemerging AI tools and automation to optimize testing workflows and empowerengineering teams to build scalable, reliable products.

What’s required of you

• 7-10 years of experience in software qualityassurance.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, testingmethodologies, and release management.
• Strongleadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Abilityto manage ambiguity and drive alignment across teams.
• Demonstrated success in improving product quality and team effectiveness .

What we are looking for

• Sprint Leadership & POC: Act as QA POC forlarge/risky features managing backlog prioritization, cross-team dependencies,and end-to-end readiness.
• Release Readiness & Risk Reporting: Drive production quality andprovide clear feature-readiness reporting with active risks, blockers, andmitigation plans.
• Customer Quality Insights: Analyze supporttrends and recurring customer issues to continuously improve test coverage andprevent repeat bugs.
• Strategy & Best Practices: Define andexecute overall QA strategies, automation frameworks, and testing standardsacross teams.
• Requirements & Risk Assessment: Review product specs early toprovide strategic feedback and lead cross-functional risk assessmentdiscussions .
• AI & Innovation: Champion AI-driven testing tools, workflows, andautomation to improve team velocity and efficiency .
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with engineering and productleaders to optimize delivery workflows and overall engineering standards .
• Mentorship: Coach and mentor QA engineers across teams to elevatetechnical skills and test design quality .

AI Skills

• Strong understanding of AI-enabled QA practices.
• Ability to evaluate and improve AI-assistedtesting approaches.
• Experience driving adoption of modern QAworkflows.
• Ability to mentor teams on AI-assisted qualitypractices.