IT quality assurance specialist supporting Desjardins, a financial - services cooperative. Developing test strategies, executing manual and automated tests, and improving Agile quality practices.
About the role
- Test Manager leading QA strategy, teams, and certification for Escape Velocity’s AAA game development project. Managing testing, risk, releases, and quality across global remote teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead Quality Assurance for a AAA game development team
- Lead embedded testing teams
- Partner with cross-functional leadership to balance quality, schedule, and risk
- Define global QA strategy, test objectives, quality gates, and risk-based testing methodologies for major project milestones
- Integrate QA into early development planning and the feature lifecycle
- Mentor and develop QA Leads and testers
- Manage internal and external QA resources
- Oversee functional, gameplay, performance, stability, multiplayer, and platform certification testing
- Monitor defect trends and quality risks, prioritizing critical issues through resolution
- Analyze defect data, identify systemic quality issues, and drive root-cause analysis and preventative initiatives
- Communicate emerging quality risks and technical assessments to Production and project leadership
- Establish QA schedules and deliverables for major milestones
- Assess build stability and release readiness
- Coordinate final regression and stabilization during release periods
- Lead first-party certification preparation and track submission risks
- Advocate for quality as senior QA representative within project leadership
- Build cross-disciplinary partnerships for shared quality ownership
- Manage external vendors and co-development QA teams
- Implement data-driven reporting and dashboards for build health, test coverage, and milestone progress
- Improve QA efficiency through automation, tooling, and process retrospectives
Requirements
- 7+ years in software QA
- 3+ years managing teams in game development
- Proven track record of shipping at least one major AAA title across the full development lifecycle
- Expertise in developing test strategies
- Expertise in risk-based testing
- Expertise in Agile methodologies
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership
- Experience with Unreal audio features, such as Audio Mixer, MetaSounds, Sound Cues, Submixes, Quartz, and spatialization plugins (nice to have)
- Experience with platform-specific audio constraints and certification considerations (nice to have)
- Experience building editor tools and pipeline automation (nice to have)
- Experience supporting large-scale content teams and multi-project shared technology (nice to have)
- Experience with console certification, multiplayer/online services, and live-service operations (nice to have)
- Familiarity with Jira, TestRail, automation, and telemetry (nice to have)
Benefits
- Fully Remote, supporting team members nearly anywhere in the world
- Generous PTO allowance
- Summer and Winter holidays studio closure, separate from PTO allowance
- Private Medical & Dental Healthcare
- Private Mental Health scheme
- Generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance
- Discretionary Studio Bonus
- Top range tech for your home set up
- Other benefits based on your region
- Autonomy in determining how best to work and play
- Equal opportunity employer
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