Senior Audio QA Lead for Immersive RPGs

CD PROJEKT RED Group; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 158,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Private medical healthcare

Annual screenings

_live dog-friendly office_

Job summary

CD PROJEKT RED Group is seeking a Senior Audio Design QA Analyst to own quality across key areas of our game audio experience. You will collaborate with Sound Design, Music, and other Audio teams to define quality bars and ensure audio supports gameplay, storytelling, and creative intent.

You will drive complex topics to completion, establish testing approaches, provide quality recommendations, and help grow team members while improving QA practices for future titles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in game QA, audio, or a relevant development discipline.
• Critical listening skills to evaluate audio beyond basic functionality, ensuring consistency, balance, creative intent, and alignment with the player experience.
• Deep understanding of interactive game audio systems, including sound effects, ambience, music, and dialogue, and how they interact during gameplay.
• Proficiency in Wwise (or comparable middleware) and modern game engines like Unreal Engine, with the ability to investigate implementation-related audio issues.
• Experience creating and maintaining robust test strategies, test plans, and structured coverage for complex features.
• Ability to assess quality risks and player impact, prioritize issues effectively, and communicate clear recommendations.
• Ability to provide detailed, constructive, and actionable feedback to both creative and technical specialists.
• Experience improving QA workflows, testing approaches, and mentoring less experienced team members.
• Strong spoken and written English.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end responsibility for complex audio features, from early development through final release.
• Define test plans, coverage, and quality benchmarks across all audio domains (SFX, music, dialogue, ambience, systems, mix).
• Assess audio for both technical functionality and creative goals, prioritizing gameplay readability, immersion, and emotional impact.
• Diagnose complex issues across assets, logic, and systems using Wwise, Unreal Engine, and Blueprints.
• Partner with sound/music designers and programmers to communicate risks, offer feedback, and drive solutions.
• Lead testing efforts for major audio features, establishing priorities, validation approaches, and dedicated test environments.
• Provide data-driven quality recommendations and highlight critical blockers requiring pre-release fixes.
• Identify inefficiencies in audio QA processes and drive improvements to testing methodologies and tools.
• Elevate bug reporting quality, maintain documentation, and mentor junior team members on audio testing practices.
• Research advances in interactive audio and modern QA practices to continually refine evaluation methods.

Skills

Critical listening

Wwise

Unreal Engine

QA expertise

English proficiency

Tools

Unreal Engine

Blueprints

Job description

CD PROJEKT RED Group is seeking a Senior Audio Design QA Analyst to own quality across key areas of our game audio experience. You will collaborate with Sound Design, Music, and other Audio teams to define quality bars and ensure audio supports gameplay, storytelling, and creative intent.

You will drive complex topics to completion, establish testing approaches, provide quality recommendations, and help grow team members while improving QA practices for future titles.