Remote QA Manager — Hardware & PlayOS Quality

NEX Inc.; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Vacation policy

Product-driven culture

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 combines hands-on testing with shaping test strategy, release criteria, and the overall quality bar.

You will work closely with engineering and product teams to identify risks, prevent regressions, and support confident release decisions in a remote US setting with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA across hardware, firmware, and PlayOS systems.
• Design risk-based test strategies and perform exploratory testing.
• Coordinate external QA partners and manage release gates.

Responsibilities

• Own validation across hardware revisions and PlayOS versions.
• Develop risk-based test plans for EVT/DVT/PVT.
• Define manual validation and automated checks for OTA releases.
• Establish quality gates and evidence-based go/no-go decisions.
• Drive defect triage and communicate release risk clearly.

Skills

QA experience

Test strategy

Automation

Exploratory testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor management

Firmware/OS validation

Tools

Android debugging

Linux debugging

CI/CD systems

Device logs/traces

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 combines hands-on testing with shaping test strategy, release criteria, and the overall quality bar.

You will work closely with engineering and product teams to identify risks, prevent regressions, and support confident release decisions in a remote US setting with competitive compensation.