Lead QA - Delicious World

What you'll be up to

“Drive the entire QA process on a successful live game”

As our Lead QA you will own the entire QA structure within the game studio, responsible for running our successful live game: Delicious World, with a focus on player experience.

Next to that, you’re responsible for:

• Setting up a QA roadmap, procedures, and ensuring QA is an integral part of the day-to-day operations within the entire studio, while proactively managing our external QA partners (Outsourced)
• Setting-up, driving and & optimizing a scalable QA process for both live build & release build pipelines (incl. automation)
• Directing, assisting and overseeing testers in testing against design specs, smoke tests and daily bug regression.
• Creating test cases and revising existing scripts.
• Working with the development team in daily stand-ups, retrospectives and reviews, making sure you bring your experience to help learn from their mistakes if an issue has affected player experience.
• Monitoring trends on device distribution, OS version distribution and incorporating a plan how to proactively manage quality.
• Working together with Customer support on the inflow of customer enquiries and help structuring these issues.

When are you doing a good job?

• Lead role: You have maintain and challenge our QA structure, build the roadmap, and procedures, being an integral part of the day-to-day operations within the entire studio, pro-actively managing our external partners
• You show you’re willing to go the extra mile for optimal gamer experience: user experience matters
• Coaching: You have grown the entire team’s sense of ownership, not fully relying on QA to solve their problems.
• Proactively contributed to the prioritization of tasks and suggested production process improvements and long term wins
• When you are generally a nice person to work with and we can have some fun too

What makes us awesome

• We are a medium-sized stable company with approx. 100 people that has been around for the last 15 years
• You get freedom to build out the platform and suggest improvements in a proper big data environment (70 million events are received in our data stream daily)
• You have the opportunity to move the needle and have an impact on the future growth of the organization. Your work is valued
• You will get lots of opportunity to learn
• Low hierarchy, ability to work autonomous without needless sign-off
• Social culture with good team spirit, eager to learn from your experience
• Have a good work/life balance and work in a family-friendly environment
• Studio Bonus: There is a direct link between the creators’ input and the success or failure of a game. Therefore 5% of the net revenue of a game will be contributed to a studio bonus pool annually, uncapped
• Restaurant card that allows you to purchase a free lunch at places of your choice
• Employee Book Buying Program
• Public transport card
• Language classes
• Sports program (½ off)

Why you're awesome

• You have at least 4years of experience driving QA on F2P mobile and coordinating external QA teams with testing mobile games as well as running various social features.
• You have experience testing within a LiveOps environment. Improving an existing mobile product (e.g. testing new added features, new levels, campaigns, seasonal changes using data analysis)
• You have a proactive attitude & are able to create conditions that enable you (and QA) to be successful
• Player experience is something that’s core to your approach to QA
• You have implemented automated testing in the recent past
• Agile development frameworks is second nature