Development Game QA Lead Bucharest

Development Game QA Lead
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Job Description

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 game’s quality is in the best shape possible.  
• Participate in the definition and improvement of ENDAVA’s 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
  - facing/client centric breakdown of project health and own the test team’s 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
  - rounded team! 

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.  
• Self-motivated, driven, and strong client facing skills. Well-organized 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,
  - engine 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! 

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,
  - based recognition awards, referral bonus;   
• Career Development: Career coaching, global career opportunities,
  - linear 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,
  -
  - on sessions, workshops, conferences;
• Work-Life 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.