QA Manager - Unannounced Project

Game Companies; Culver City (CA); On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely is seeking a QA Manager to lead Automation & Services QA for a cross-platform Strategy/MMO title on PC and Mobile. You will oversee a small Automation team using Nunu AI as its foundation, and manage Services QA across backend testing, analytics, accounts and payments.

This leadership role owns QA across Automation, Server Scalability, Build and Release, Web Admin Tools, and Cloud Operations pods, partnering with Engineering, Production and the wider QA organisation to ensure release

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, software development or a related field.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing QA teams or technical testing functions, and 2+ years leading testing initiatives across development and release cycles.
• Proven experience managing test automation, including strategy, backlog ownership, maintenance, delivery and measurable return on investment.
• Strong understanding of backend and API testing, service integrations, data validation and the risks associated with accounts, analytics and payments.
• Experience overseeing performance, load or scalability testing, and working with Engineering on service reliability and recovery testing.
• Working knowledge of test environments, cloud-hosted services, build and release pipelines, and deployment validation.
• Strong grounding in risk-based testing, defect management and QA tooling such as Jira, test management systems and reporting dashboards.
• Technical judgement to review testing and automation approaches, challenge assumptions and communicate effectively with engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to manage people, capacity, priorities and costs, with strong communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting PC and Mobile releases and live-operation workflows, including patch validation, incident response and ongoing quality monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop QA teams, aligning their work with project goals, quality standards and development priorities.
• Own QA planning and delivery across your pods, and communicate quality risks and trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Lead the automation strategy, roadmap and backlog, prioritizing by risk and ROI so Nunu AI delivers sustainable, high-value coverage.
• Integrate automation into build and release pipelines with Engineering, and keep manual testing where automation doesn’t fit.
• Own the QA approach for backend functionality, integrations, scalability and resilience, working with Engineering to make services testable and quality measurable.
• Cover accounts, authentication, payments, analytics pipelines and admin tools, plus load and disaster recovery testing.
• Ensure Services QA has reliable environments, including the Beta Environment, so backend changes are validated before deployment.
• Own release process testing and give go/no-go recommendations backed by clear evidence and risks.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation strategy

Backend testing

API testing

Test automation

Stakeholder management

Job description

Quality Assurance (QA)

5+ years

Technical Engineering

QA Manager

Scopely is looking for a QA Manager to lead Automation & Services QA for an ambitious, cross-platform Strategy/MMO title on PC and Mobile.

You will lead a small Automation team using Nunu AI as its foundation, alongside Services QA, covering backend testing, environment setup, analytics, accounts and payments. This internal role owns QA across the Automation, Server Scalability, Build and Release, Web Admin Tools, and Cloud Operations Pods, partnering closely with Engineering, Production and the wider QA organisation.

What You Will Do

QA Leadership & Pod Ownership

• Lead and develop QA teams, aligning their work with project goals, quality standards and development priorities.
• Own QA planning and delivery across your pods, and communicate quality risks and trade-offs to stakeholders.

Automation Strategy & Management

• Lead the automation strategy, roadmap and backlog, prioritizing by risk and ROI so Nunu AI delivers sustainable, high-value coverage.
• Integrate automation into build and release pipelines with Engineering, and keep manual testing where automation doesn’t fit.

Services QA Management

• Own the QA approach for backend functionality, integrations, scalability and resilience, working with Engineering to make services testable and quality measurable.
• Cover accounts, authentication, payments, analytics pipelines and admin tools, plus load and disaster recovery testing.

Environment & Release Readiness

• Ensure Services QA has reliable environments, including the Beta Environment, so backend changes are validated before deployment.
• Own release process testing and give go/no-go recommendations backed by clear evidence and risks.

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, software development or a related field.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing QA teams or technical testing functions, and 2+ years leading testing initiatives across development and release cycles.
• Proven experience managing test automation, including strategy, backlog ownership, maintenance, delivery and measurable return on investment.
• Strong understanding of backend and API testing, service integrations, data validation and the risks associated with accounts, analytics and payments.
• Experience overseeing performance, load or scalability testing, and working with Engineering on service reliability and recovery testing.
• Working knowledge of test environments, cloud-hosted services, build and release pipelines, and deployment validation.
• Strong grounding in risk-based testing, defect management and QA tooling such as Jira, test management systems and reporting dashboards.
• Technical judgement to review testing and automation approaches, challenge assumptions and communicate effectively with engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to manage people, capacity, priorities and costs, with strong communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting PC and Mobile releases and live-operation workflows, including patch validation, incident response and ongoing quality monitoring.

Experience with AI-assisted test automation, particularly Nunu AI, would be an advantage.

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award‑winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world‑class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet‑driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.

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