Development Game QA Lead 6-month contract

As a Development Game QA Lead at Endava Games you will own the test plan and coordinate QA efforts to provide coverage as needed by the development and publishing teams. 

• 100% Remote position. 
• Working with a multinational team on AA or AAA games in an Unreal Studio. 
• Get to experience working on diverse projects within the game space. 
• Reports to: Quality Assurance Manager at Endava Games. 

Responsibilities  

Lead and support a team of Games QA Testers at Endava Games Be the representation of Quality and Game Testing support on your product! 

QA Support and Leadership:  75% 

• Be the key Quality practices leader in team and product meetings.  
• Gather testing requirements and pass down the day to day focus to the rest of your QA team. 
• Active support and management of the QA database for your product. 
• Review all issues entered by your team to ensure that the highest quality standards are met and that best practices are being used. 
• Build test and support plans alongside your QA Manager to ensure your games quality is in the best shape possible. 
• Participate in the definition and improvement of ENDAVAs QA standards workflows and reporting. 
• Produce QA reporting on a daily weekly and milestone cadence. 

Project Management: 15% 

• Coordinate daily tasks build delivery downtime and report and flag any quality issues to product owners and department managers. 
• Monitoring daily test results and team productivity. Review daily tasks and team flags in a regular cadence. 
• Build and maintain project documentation and team spaces based on latest product information. 
• Provide clientfacing/client centric breakdown of project health and own the test teams progress. 

Resource Management: 10% 

• Onboard train and mentor new and current testers on ENDAVA process and QA best practices. 
• Coaching and team performance management. Provide real time feedback during testing. 
• Meet with your team 1 on 1 and help with their career development when possible. 
• Participate in future hiring rounds of the QA department to help ENDAVA build a strong and wellrounded team! 

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications 

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience as Games QA Lead in the games industry. 
• Minimum 4 years of testing experience in games on multiple platforms. 
• Shipped at least 2 console or PC games in the acting role as QA Lead. 
• Selfmotivated driven and strong client facing skills. Wellorganized and maintains high standards even under pressure 
• Production pipeline tools mastery such as Jira Confluence and other test case management systems. 
• Strong communication skills in English in both oral and written. 

Desired Qualifications 

• Experience in managing Remote Teams. Know what a healthy team looks like. 
• Development QA experience inengine support for Unreal Unity or equivalent. Building creating maintaining gyms and/or working with CI/CD tools. 
• Having a passion for games games development and game franchises. A strong believer in quality quality products and the QA process. 
• Strong emotional intelligence and a people first approach to team management. 
• Understand what KPIs are good indicators of Quality for a product in test. 
• Technical skills such as VBA/Macro document automation Jira analytics and/or dabbling in any programming languages are a plus! 

Additional Information :

Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

• Finance: Competitive salary package share plan company performance bonuses valuebased recognition awards referral bonus;   
• Career Development: Career coaching global career opportunities nonlinear career paths internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
• Learning Opportunities: Complex projects rotations internal tech communities training certifications coaching online learning platforms subscriptions passiton sessions workshops conferences;
• WorkLife Balance: Hybrid work and flexible working hours employee assistance programme;
• Health: Global internal wellbeing programme access to wellbeing apps;
• Community: Global internal tech communities hobby clubs and interest groups inclusion and diversity programmes events and celebrations.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Contract