Sr. Manager, QA Engineering & Automation

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work across US/Canada

Hybrid option in Culver City

Leadership role in QA automation

Work with AI-assisted testing tech

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a senior QA Automation leader to define and drive the automation strategy for a live AAA mobile gaming project.

You will build and mentor a team, establish scalable frameworks, and partner with Engineering, Product, and Live Operations to ensure quality across releases.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in QA or quality engineering; 4+ years leading automation teams.
• Experience developing automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure for complex software products.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and supporting frequent production releases.
• Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages; C# is a strong advantage.
• Solid understanding of testing methodologies, automation architecture, and coding standards.
• Proven ability to mentor manual testers into coding, automation, and test-script development.
• Experience aligning Engineering and QA around shared quality ownership and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with mobile testing environments and AI-assisted testing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the overall QA automation strategy and establish scalable frameworks, tools, and quality gates for a live mobile game.
• Build and lead an automation engineering team, overseeing recruitment, onboarding, mentorship, and career progression.
• Design, develop, and implement automated testing solutions covering UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, mobile, and live-ops workflows.
• Assess and select automation frameworks, platforms, traditional testing solutions, and AI-assisted tools based on value and scalability.
• Establish automation architecture, coding standards, reporting, observability, and quality metrics for continuous delivery.
• Collaborate with Engineering and QA teams to improve testability and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide hands-on leadership through framework development, prototyping, code reviews, and test-script creation.
• Mentor manual QA professionals to transition into coding and automation.
• Define and monitor key quality indicators like coverage, execution time, stability, and defects detected.

Skills

QA automation strategy

Team leadership

CI/CD pipelines

C# programming

Automation frameworks

Mobile testing

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Test management systems

Source control

Job description

Accountabilities

• Define and execute the overall QA automation strategy, establishing scalable frameworks, tools, testing standards, and quality gates for a live mobile game.
• Build and lead an automation engineering team, overseeing recruitment, team structure, onboarding, mentorship, performance development, and career progression.
• Design, develop, and implement automated testing solutions covering UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, mobile, and live-operations workflows.
• Assess and select automation frameworks, platforms, traditional testing solutions, and AI-assisted tools based on their effectiveness, scalability, maintainability, and business value.
• Establish automation architecture, coding standards, reporting mechanisms, observability practices, and quality metrics to support continuous delivery.
• Collaborate with Engineering and QA teams to improve testability, prioritize automation initiatives, integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and embed quality checks into the development lifecycle.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership through framework development, prototyping, code reviews, automation implementation, and test‑script creation.
• Mentor manual QA professionals in programming and automation, helping them develop the technical skills needed to contribute to automated testing initiatives.
• Define and monitor key quality indicators, including test coverage, execution time, test stability, flakiness, and defect detection effectiveness.
• Communicate quality risks, automation progress, and resource requirements to stakeholders across Product, Live Operations, Marketing, Customer Support, Localization, and external development partners.
• Champion release excellence and a proactive quality culture, ensuring automation complements exploratory and risk‑based testing rather than replacing it.

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of professional experience in QA, test automation, or quality engineering, including 4+ years of experience leading or building automation teams.
• Demonstrated experience developing automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure for complex software products, ideally from the ground up.
• Strong background in evaluating automation technologies, integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and supporting frequent production releases.
• Hands‑on programming experience in one or more languages, with C# considered a strong advantage.
• Solid understanding of software testing methodologies, automation architecture, coding standards, software development lifecycles, and testability principles.
• Proven ability to mentor manual testers and support their transition into coding, automation, and automated test‑script development.
• Experience aligning Engineering and QA teams around shared quality ownership, automation adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with mobile testing environments and both traditional and AI‑assisted testing solutions.
• Experience with test management systems, defect tracking platforms, source control, build systems, CI/CD tools, and release management processes.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to coordinate distributed teams effectively.
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying quality risks and driving technical improvements.

Additional assets:

• Previous experience working on live mobile games, free‑to‑play titles, or core gaming products.
• Familiarity with mobile device farms, emulators, simulators, and cloud‑based device testing platforms.
• Experience testing products developed with Unity, Unreal Engine, or other game development technologies.
• Knowledge of API, backend services, data, performance, load, and reliability testing automation.
• Experience automating live events, remote configurations, experimentation, monetization systems, and service‑driven game features.
• Familiarity with AI‑powered test generation, test maintenance, visual validation, defect triage, and code‑assistance solutions.
• Experience building automation metrics, quality dashboards, and engineering quality gates.
• Previous collaboration with external development studios and international engineering teams.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to lead and build a QA automation function from the ground up.
• Remote working opportunities across the United States and Canada, with a hybrid option available in Culver City.
• The chance to contribute to an upcoming AAA mobile gaming project.
• A strategic leadership position with significant influence over engineering quality standards, automation architecture, and release processes.
• Opportunities to work with modern automation frameworks, emerging AI‑assisted testing technologies, and scalable development infrastructure.
• Collaborative, cross‑functional environment involving Engineering, QA, Product, and Live Operations teams.
• Professional development opportunities through team leadership, technical innovation, and organizational impact.