Senior QA Manager, Games

The School of The New York Times; New York (NY); On-site; USD 176,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Times seeks a Senior QA Manager in the Games Mission to lead the Quality Assurance team. This role involves overseeing the QA strategy, improving automation tooling, and ensuring high-quality product delivery in a dynamic gaming environment. Ideal candidates have significant QA experience and a commitment to software excellence. Join us to help deliver unmatched quality in digital gaming experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a QA Engineer.
• 2+ years managing a QA team.
• In-depth knowledge of software testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of QA leads and engineers.
• Ensure KPI-driven software quality through automated and manual testing.
• Collaborate with engineering to incorporate testing within CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Automation testing

Manual testing

KPI management

Collaboration

Software quality assurance

Tools

XCUI

Espresso

Appium

Playwright

Cucumber

Webdriver.IO

Job description

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The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

About The Role

The New York Times is looking for a Senior QA Manager in the Games Mission to lead the Quality Assurance team.

You will report to the Head of Engineering for the Games Mission, closely working with Engineering, Product and Production and overseeing the QA strategy, automation tooling and product delivery across all the squads.

We have declared ourselves a subscription-first company, staking our future on delivering products that are worth paying for and are unparalleled in its quality and consumer delight. Games are playing an important role towards our vision and we aim to be the premier destination for digital puzzles. This is an important role to deliver high quality products to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of QA leads & engineers to ensure KPI-driven software quality
• Use a combination of automated and manual testing techniques that ensure high-quality software delivery across mobile apps, web and backend APIs
• Establish and maintain QA metrics and reporting dashboards
• Collaborate with engineering to incorporate testing within the CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with other QA leaders across NYT for shared best practices
• In-depth and updated industry knowledge of software testing methodologies and automation frameworks
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as QA Engineer ensuring high quality delivery of complex projects on desktop and mobile web
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of QA engineers
• Experience with modern test automation frameworks such as XCUI, Espresso, Appium, Playwright, Cucumber, Webdriver.IO
• Experience working with cross functional stakeholders and multiple engineering teams with varying skill sets
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing complex mobile applications
• Experience leading globally distributed teams of QA engineers
  
  

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$176,000 - $193,000 USD

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance

• Industries

  Higher Education

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