Employer description & source details
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 traditional or AI-assisted tools based on coverage, maintainability, speed, and value. Establish automation standards, coding practices, test architecture, reporting, observability, and quality gates that can scale with the game and organization. Partner with Engineering and QA to prioritize automation, improve testability, integrate testing into CI/CD, and establish shared ownership of automated tests, ensuring automation is part of the definition of done for every feature. Provide hands-on technical leadership through framework design, prototypes, code reviews, automation implementation, and test-script development. Mentor manual testers as they develop coding and automation skills, while defining metrics for coverage, stability, flakiness, execution time, 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 supports—not replaces—strong exploratory and risk-based testing. 8+ years of experience in QA, test automation, or quality engineering, including 4+ years leading or building automation teams. Proven experience creating automation strategies, frameworks,
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