Senior Quality Analyst (Console)

Sumo India; Maharashtra; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Hybrid work model

22 days holiday

Health insurance

Life insurance

Maternity leave

Paternity leave

Learning days

Gaming subscription

Job summary

Sumo India is seeking a Senior QA professional to own quality across features, systems or areas of a game from development to post-launch. You will collaborate with Development, Design, Art, Audio and Production teams and work with external QA teams to ensure high-quality releases.

The role requires hands-on game QA across multiple stages, strong communication with distributed stakeholders, and experience with console certification processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in game QA across development, release and post-launch phases.
• Ability to own QA for features, systems or areas of a game independently.
• Strong test planning, risk-based testing and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute QA based on requirements, risks, and timelines.
• Review specifications to identify gaps and quality risks.
• Create and maintain test plans, cases and scenarios.
• Perform functional, regression, exploratory and platform testing.

Skills

QA ownership

Console certification

Agile/Scrum

Bug triage

PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo

Game QA end-to-end

Test planning

Communication

Tools

JIRA

Bugzilla

Confluence

MS Teams

Job description

Job Description

Previous relevant experience in game quality assurance is required for this role. We are looking for a Senior QA professional with a strong ownership mindset, responsible for QA across assigned features, systems or areas of a game throughout development, release and post‑launch. You will work closely with Development, Design, Art, Audio and Production teams, and collaborate with external/publisher QA teams where required, to proactively identify quality risks, investigate issues and support high‑quality releases.

Job Requirements

What will you bring with you?

• Strong hands‑on game QA experience, including development, release and post‑launch support.
• Experience independently owning QA for features, systems or areas of a game.
• Good understanding of test planning, risk‑based testing, defect management and release readiness.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Experience supporting post‑launch activities such as patches, DLC/content updates, hotfixes, player‑reported issues, regression and game‑balance changes.
• Console certification/submission experience on at least one platform.
• Strong written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate clearly with distributed and UK‑based stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience across multiple console platforms or first‑party certification requirements.
• Experience working with publishers, external QA or platform stakeholders.
• Exposure to test automation, AI‑assisted QA or specialised QA tooling.
• Experience with multiple game engines.
• Mobile QA experience across iOS and/or Android.
• ISTQB Foundation or equivalent.

Job Responsibilities

• Plan and execute QA based on requirements, risks, priorities and project timelines.
• Review specifications to identify gaps, conflicts, edge cases and quality risks.
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases and test scenarios.
• Perform functional, regression, exploratory, integration, compatibility, platform and play testing, with exposure to performance, network, accessibility, age‑rating and stress/soak testing.
• Validate builds and support BVT, Smoke, LKG, milestone, UAT and release testing.
• Investigate defects with developers to reproduce, diagnose and resolve issues; participate in bug triage, communicate risks and blockers, and provide QA input on release confidence.
• Act as QA point of contact for assigned areas and contribute to QA reporting, retrospectives and process improvement.
• Support mentoring, onboarding and knowledge sharing within the QA team.
• Work effectively under delivery pressure, manage competing priorities and adapt to changing requirements and timelines.

Skills, Mindset & Tools

• Takes ownership of assigned areas, proactively investigates issues, identifies potential solutions and works collaboratively with the team to resolve them.
• Hands‑on experience with PlayStation, Xbox and/or Nintendo Switch.
• Working knowledge of relevant console SDKs/GDKs, development environments, platform requirements and certification processes.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 4/5, Unity or proprietary/custom game engines.
• JIRA, Hansoft, Bugzilla or equivalent defect‑tracking tools.
• Confluence, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, communication and collaboration skills.

What we offer

• Financial: Annual bonus, an employee referral scheme, 1st time home buyer bonus, Wedding bonus.
• Work‑life balance:Hybrid work model, Flexible working, 22 contractual days holiday, 8 festive holidays, 4 statutory holidays, birthday day‑off, 4 weeks of paternity leave, Maternity leave as per law, and options to buy or sell up to a week of annual leave*.
• Health and Wellbeing:Health insurance, life insurance, Mental health service, critical illness cover*, and funded flu vaccines/eye tests.
• Personal Development: Structured pathways, regular appraisals, annual salary reviews, 5 learning days per annum, access to on demand Sumo Developers Conference learning SDCXtra.
• Extra Perks: A variety of in‑studio perks, regular care packages, studio days out (family welcome), sabbaticals (at 5 years of service), and an annual gaming subscription.