Senior QA Automation & Tooling Lead — Remote

Scopely; United States; Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely is seeking a Senior QA Manager, Automation & Tooling to lead the automation strategy for a live game. This role can be remote in the US and Canada, or hybrid in Culver City, driving automation across UI, API, and live-ops workflows with a focus on scale and quality.

You will hire and mentor an automation team, define standards, integrate testing into CI/CD, and partner with Engineering, Live Operations, and product teams to ensure automation is a shared responsibility and part of the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of QA, test automation, or quality engineering.
• 4+ years leading or building automation teams.
• Hands-on programming in one or more languages; C# preferred.
• Experience evaluating automation approaches and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with mobile testing and AI-assisted testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the QA automation strategy for a live mobile game, including scalable frameworks, tooling, standards, and quality gates.
• Build and lead an automation team from the ground up, including hiring, team structure, processes, mentorship, and career development.
• Design, build, and implement automated testing across UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, mobile, and live-operations workflows.
• Evaluate automation approaches, frameworks, platforms, and AI-assisted tools based on coverage, maintainability, speed, and value.
• Establish automation standards, coding practices, test architecture, reporting, observability, and quality gates for scale.
• Partner with Engineering and QA to prioritize automation, integrate testing into CI/CD, and share ownership of automated tests.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through framework design, prototypes, code reviews, and test-script development.
• Mentor manual testers as they develop coding and automation skills, while defining metrics for coverage, stability, flakiness, and defect detection.
• Communicate quality risks, automation progress, and investment needs while partnering with Product, Live Operations, Marketing, Customer Support, Localization, and external development teams.
• Champion quality and release excellence across the organization while ensuring automation complements exploratory testing.

Skills

QA experience

Automation leadership

CI/CD integration

C# programming

Tools

Automation frameworks

Testing tools

Job description

Scopely is seeking a Senior QA Manager, Automation & Tooling to lead the automation strategy for a live game. This role can be remote in the US and Canada, or hybrid in Culver City, driving automation across UI, API, and live-ops workflows with a focus on scale and quality.

You will hire and mentor an automation team, define standards, integrate testing into CI/CD, and partner with Engineering, Live Operations, and product teams to ensure automation is a shared responsibility and part of the