Lead QA, Yuga Labs

• 8+ years of Quality Assurance Experience, with 3+ years leading QA teams
• Robust leadership experience in a lead QA role within the games industryAbility to lead a test project on a large multi-discipline team in a games as a live service environment
• Ability to translate large-scale and complex cross-discipline goals into cohesive test plans
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders and to relay complex concepts in a digestible manner
• Ability to set strategic goals, but also hold team members to effective tactical execution
• Experience working with distributed/remote testing teams (spanning multiple timezones)
• Experience working with test automation and tooling solutions

Desirable

• Identify project needs and establish QA best practices and processes that take into account the team's resources, roadmap, and quality standards
• Report on metrics using data to guide action for your team
• Create extensive test strategies and test plans which are owned internally and leveraged across external vendors to test and execute at scale
• Define and drive a sustainable cross-discipline test plan while closely communicating with core project team members
• Hold teams accountable for upholding quality and player impact as a factor in decisions
• Plan and execute a preventative-care strategy with cross-discipline leadership
• Develops sustainable test methodologies and drive accountability and ownership across relevant teams to maintain these practices
• Preemptively assess and mitigate long-term risks in a games as a live service environment
• Build and delegate test maintenance strategies for owned content once it has shipped
• Assess and escalate project-level risks and implement improvements and solutions across cross-functional teams
• Utilize project test coverage experience to work with team to build and maintain technical testing solutions that focus on both short and long term sustainability and scalability