Remote QA Manager - Hardware & Firmware for PlayOS

Nex; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Flexible working hours and vacation

Growth opportunities

Cutting-edge gaming tech exposure

Job summary

Nex is seeking a QA Manager to own end-to-end quality across hardware, firmware, PlayOS, and game experiences for Nex Playground. This role blends hands-on testing with shaping test strategy, release criteria, and overall quality.

You will ensure hardware revisions work seamlessly with PlayOS and games, partner with engineering and game cells to identify risk, prevent regressions, and support confident release decisions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA experience in system-level testing or hardware-software integration.
• Ability to design risk-based test strategies and perform exploratory testing.
• Experience validating firmware or OTA update flows with rollback scenarios.
• Skills in analyzing performance, reliability, and intermittent issues with logs and traces.

Responsibilities

• Own validation for hardware bring-up and compatibility across revisions and PlayOS versions.
• Define test strategy for firmware and PlayOS updates, including upgrade/downgrade paths.
• Establish quality gates, entry and exit criteria, and evidence-based go/no-go decisions.
• Coordinate external QA partners and vendors for deliverables.
• Communicate quality status and release risk clearly across teams.
• Champion testing practices and raise the quality bar across teams.

Skills

Hands-on QA

Risk-based testing

OTA updates

Performance analysis

Automated tests

Cross-functional comms

Tools

ADB

CI/CD

Device logs & traces

Linux debugging

Job description

Nex is seeking a QA Manager to own end-to-end quality across hardware, firmware, PlayOS, and game experiences for Nex Playground. This role blends hands-on testing with shaping test strategy, release criteria, and overall quality.

You will ensure hardware revisions work seamlessly with PlayOS and games, partner with engineering and game cells to identify risk, prevent regressions, and support confident release decisions.