Test Manager – Quality Assurance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Escape Velocity Entertainment

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51 - 200 employees

🎮 Gaming

Gaming

Escape Velocity Entertainment is a gaming company focused on developing video games that blend new genres with diverse characters and inclusive gameplay. Their aim is to create games that are accessible to players of all skill levels and backgrounds, providing both challenge and choice within rich, engaging worlds. They emphasize diversity, equity, and inclusion in their game design, ensuring players can reach the stars, have fun, and compete regardless of physical limitations, identity, or social network.

📋 Description

• Lead Quality Assurance for a AAA game development team • Lead embedded testing teams and partner with cross-functional leadership to balance quality, schedule, and risk • Define global QA strategy, test objectives, quality gates, and risk-based testing methodologies for major project milestones • Integrate QA into early development planning and the feature lifecycle • Mentor and develop QA Leads and testers • Manage internal and external QA resources • Oversee functional, gameplay, performance, stability, multiplayer, and platform certification testing • Monitor defect trends and quality risks; prioritize critical issues through resolution • Analyze defect data, identify systemic quality issues, and drive root-cause analysis and preventative initiatives • Communicate emerging quality risks and technical assessments to Production and project leadership • Establish QA schedules and deliverables for major milestones; assess build stability and release readiness • Coordinate final regression and stabilization during release periods • Lead first-party certification preparation and track submission risks • Represent QA within project leadership and advocate for quality • Build cross-disciplinary partnerships and shared quality ownership • Manage external vendors and co-development QA teams • Implement reporting and dashboards for build health, test coverage, and milestone progress • Improve QA efficiency through automation, tooling, and process retrospectives

🎯 Requirements

• US-based candidate able and willing to work from Wednesday to Sunday every week • 7+ years in software QA • 3+ years managing teams in game development • Proven track record of shipping at least one major AAA title across the full development lifecycle • Expertise in developing test strategies, risk-based testing, and Agile methodologies • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership • Nice to have: Experience with Unreal audio features (e.g., Audio Mixer, MetaSounds, Sound Cues, Submixes, Quartz, spatialization plugins) • Nice to have: Experience with platform-specific audio constraints and certification considerations • Nice to have: Experience building editor tools and pipeline automation • Nice to have: Experience supporting large-scale content teams and multi-project shared technology • Nice to have: Experience with console certification, multiplayer/online services, and live-service operations • Nice to have: Familiarity with Jira, TestRail, and technical QA solutions like automation and telemetry