Position: QA Lead
Company: Developers Shore
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are looking for QA Lead to join the customer's team.
About the Customer
We’re at the forefront, launching the world's first hyper-realistic virtual office, maximizing employee engagement and brand experience. Our Mission is to help companies offer a complete work experience - bridging the gap between physical and digital. We have a unique core team with human, design, and tech-centered expertise — from brand experience, employee engagement, meetings, events, and gaming to 3D graphics, UE, cloud, networking, DevOps, frontend, and backend design. We are 30 employees spread across the world, with our headquarters in Stockholm.

With us, you will become part of a wonderful group of competent and supportive colleagues where knowledge sharing, and development are prioritized as much as having fun and pleasant at work. Therefore, your personal qualities are important to us, we want to maintain the light-hearted atmosphere we have today.

About the Team
At the moment 10 persons on the team, with Tech-Lead and CTO. The team will grow up to 20 persons during the spring.
No QA team yet, looking for a QA Lead to set up best practices for Quality Assurance.

Assignment description
As the QA Lead, you will help us ensure a high-quality bar for our new hyperrealistic virtual 3D office. You will be responsible for setting up and maintaining a high-quality QA function for our product and working closely with our talented tech team to lead up the best practices for Quality Assurance. In this position, you own the testing process, risk management, and quality evaluation of our product and work closely with our development team to ensure it.

Whether it’s leading a highly technical testing effort or partnering with engineers to create better tooling, you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on our product that will change the way people work.

Responsibilities:
- Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases (both for UAT and QA team members)
- Define the testing processes to ensure fast and accurate qualitative and functional testing working closely with the engineering and DevOps (CI / CD) teams
- Establish and manage our QA team, determining the best QA strategy (internal, outsourced, or hybrid) to align with our business - objectives
- Evaluate, nurture, and grow the skills and the usage of our Quality Assurance staff (Analysts, Engineers, Test Team)
- Be a point of contact for all QA-related communication and an advocate of QA throughout the organization
- Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
- Work directly with Production and Development to track features in development and direct test plans for those features
- Develop and iterate on quality strategies that encompass staffing, technical requirements, product space, and involvement throughout the development lifecycle
- Identify risks to the quality of testing in the product, process, and people and then develop and execute on solving those challenges through internal and external resources
- Maintain and innovate our testing workforce including understanding coverage, practices, and communication of testing
- Plan and implement test automation strategies and tools where appropriate

Must haves:
- 5+ years’ experience within gamedev and at least 2 of those being in leadership roles
- Have experience in leading and being responsible for larger or smaller test projects
- Passion for evaluating, influencing, and improving quality tooling
- Used to working with test strategies, test reporting, and planning
- You are a strong communicator, both with developers at a technical level and with external suppliers and stakeholders
- Experience in the development and management of test automation solutions
- Experience working with DevOps on CI/CD and branch-based testing/tools
- Experience with one or more game engines, preferably Unreal
- Coordinating internal staff and beta group testing in conjunction with the PO
- You are a self-starter and used to working in a multicultural and remote work environment
- Experience in Internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) testing an advantage

Soft Values
Great communication skills, positive attitude, and experience from working with a 100% remote team.