About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition.

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $68 billion in 2019 to $150 billion in 2025.

As the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry. The Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, and distributes millions in prizes each month.

Through its philanthropic initiatives, Skillz has harnessed the power of its platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes such as the American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, and NAACP by playing in Skillz tournaments.

Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

What you’ll do:

Effectively split time supervising the local team of QA Testers 70% of the time, while participating in the hands-on testing 30% of your time
Create weekly team performance metrics, consolidated bug reports
Maintain open and excellent communication channels with the other teams across multiple office locations
Maintain a healthy motivation level and consistency in productivity for the local QA team
Execute, maintain and improve the test cases/test plans for game testing
Report and track issues in Jira
Work with Product Management, Engineering, and Developer Success to resolve issues as they’re discovered
Deploy mobile games on iOS and Android devices for testing
Contribute to the mission of QA, raising the bar of quality for every product through process improvements.

Your Skillz:

Have acted in a leadership capacity in previous roles - either as a supervisor, player-coach, or lead
Strongly familiar with mobile platforms (iOS and Android)
2+ years of relevant experience testing mobile apps
Understanding of software testing principles
Ability to execute and improve upon existing QA processes and workflows for testing production games
Experience using defect tracking solutions (such as JIRA) strongly preferred
Excellent written / verbal communication
Experience with TestRail a plus

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.