QA Strategy & Quality Systems Lead

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

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.