QA Manager

Avalanchestudios; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Avalanche Studios Group is seeking a QA Manager to elevate our quality assurance for theHunter: Call of the Wild. This role focuses on shifting QA from reactive firefighting to proactive quality, with emphasis on observability and shared quality ownership across Engineering, Production, Design and LiveOps.

The position is based in Malmö or Stockholm with a hybrid model; you will collaborate closely with multiple disciplines and help scale QA practices while mentoring the team.

Qualifications

• You think at the organizational level, not just within QA.
• You value observability and transparency over process for process's sake.
• You're comfortable in complex, adaptive environments where the answer isn't always obvious.
• You balance structure with the flexibility to iterate and improve.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement across QA practices, workflows and collaboration models with the QA team — and bring the rest of the studio along for the ride.
• Champion quality ownership across disciplines, reducing dependency on late discovery and reactive firefighting.
• Improve operational visibility into quality risks, verification pressure and release readiness through better metrics, telemetry and reporting.
• Identify systemic bottlenecks and recurring failure patterns and find the right solutions for it.
• Evaluate and modernize QA tooling, test infrastructure and verification workflows.
• Build strong collaboration between embedded QA, operational QA functions and QA Partners.
• Support, mentor and grow the people in your team — setting clear expectations, fostering psychological safety and encouraging continuous learning.
• Own people management responsibilities including performance, goal-setting, career development and hiring.

Job description

The Position

At Avalanche Studios Group, we are looking for a QA Manager to join our successful title theHunter: Call of the Wild.

This isn't a role about running a test department. It's about evolving how we build confidence in what we ship. You'll be responsible for moving our quality systems from reactive to proactive, improving production observability, and making quality a shared capability across Engineering, Production, Design and LiveOps. If you're someone who thinks systemically, values learning over blame, and gets energized by meaningful organizational change — we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that this role is based in either our Malmö or Stockholm office three days a week (Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays).

What You'll Do

• Drive continuous improvement across QA practices, workflows and collaboration models with the QA team — and bring the rest of the studio along for the ride.
• Champion quality ownership across disciplines, reducing dependency on late discovery and reactive firefighting.
• Improve operational visibility into quality risks, verification pressure and release readiness through better metrics, telemetry and reporting.
• Identify systemic bottlenecks and recurring failure patterns and find the right solutions for it.
• Evaluate and modernize QA tooling, test infrastructure and verification workflows.
• Build strong collaboration between embedded QA, operational QA functions and QA Partners.
• Support, mentor and grow the people in your team — setting clear expectations, fostering psychological safety and encouraging continuous learning.
• Own people management responsibilities including performance, goal-setting, career development and hiring.

Who You Are

• You think at the organizational level, not just within the walls of QA.
• You value observability and transparency over process for process's sake.
• You're comfortable in complex, adaptive environments where the answer isn't always obvious.
• You balance structure with the flexibility to iterate and improve.
• You understand that sustainable quality systems have to work for the humans inside them.
• You have a track record of improving how teams collaborate around quality, not just how QA teams operate.

The Stockholm location

Our Stockholm office is situated in Södermalm, the beating heart of the city’s game industry.

Our hybrid model requires you to be in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays to foster collaboration and creativity.