QA Lead

Навыки

• Agile
• Коммуникация
• Jira
• Лидерство
• Ручное тестирование
• Ответственность за результат
• Scrum

О компании и продукте

• Sakura Games is an international game development outsourcing company founded in Cyprus. Since 2018, we have built full-cycle mobile games for the global market — casual and midcore titles for international clients — and we also support live games, build prototypes, and handle porting projects. We currently run more than 10 projects in parallel, each with a dedicated cross-functional Scrum team. QA is delivered through external vendors, and we are now building an internal QA function to own quality across the company. We are looking for a QA Lead to take ownership of this function

Задачи

• You will manage around 8 QA specialists working across several external vendors, drive the efficiency and quality of their work, build unified QA processes, and help project teams make better quality-related decisions
• Build and continuously improve QA processes for mobile game projects across the company
• Define unified standards for testing, test documentation, bug reporting, and release checks
• Plan QA activities across project stages: prototypes, active development, releases, live support, and porting
• Define where testing coverage is sufficient and where additional checks are needed
• Introduce QA metrics and quality reporting, and use them to drive decisions
• Recommend tools, approaches, and practices that improve testing efficiency and quality
• Vendor & team management
• Manage the work of around 8 QA specialists delivered through several external vendors
• Set clear expectations, KPIs, and SLAs for vendors
• Monitor task delivery, timelines, reports, bug reports quality, test coverage, and overall testing quality
• Review test documentation created by external QA teams and provide actionable feedback
• Evaluate vendor performance and coordinate QA capacity across multiple projects
• Optimize testing processes and QA-related costs across the project portfolio
• Quality ownership & expert support
• Support teams in choosing the right testing approach for features, releases, prototypes, and live updates
• Review test plans, checklists, regression suites, and release checklists
• Participate in bug triage and help teams prioritize defects based on severity, impact, and project risks
• Assess QA risks and evaluate build readiness for release
• Help identify gaps in testing coverage and suggest practical improvements
• Test game features, builds, releases, and prototypes selectively, with focus on high-risk areas
• Support functional, regression, smoke, sanity, exploratory, and compatibility testing through planning, review, and targeted execution
• Validate game mechanics, UI/UX, progression, economy, monetization, ad integrations, analytics, and technical stability when needed
• Release & collaboration
• Participate in release planning and help teams make informed go / no-go decisions

Требования

• This is primarily a leadership and process ownership role, but we expect the QA Lead to stay close to the product: review test documentation, support bug triage, assess test coverage, challenge testing approaches, and occasionally perform hands-on testing when deeper context or expert validation is needed
• QA processes & strategy
• Stay close to project quality without becoming the primary hands-on tester on every project
• Hands-on involvement
• Perform hands-on testing when expert validation, deeper product context, or urgent release support is needed
• 5+ years of experience in QA within the mobile game development industry
• 2+ years of experience as a QA Lead / QA Manager
• Experience testing mobile games, including stores, SDKs, payments, IAP, ads, and analytics
• Experience in test planning across different systems, devices, OS versions, network conditions, and performance constraints
• Strong understanding of the full game development cycle: from prototype to release and live support
• Experience building or improving QA processes
• Strong expertise in manual testing and the ability to guide others on testing depth, coverage, and approach
• Experience reviewing test documentation and improving test design
• Experience working on multiple projects in parallel
• Solid understanding of Scrum / Agile processes
• Experience with Jira or similar task trackers
• Experience with test management tools such as TestRail, Xray, or similar
• Ability to create clear and useful test documentation: checklists, test plans, regression suites, and release checklists
• Structured mindset, ownership, responsibility, and strong communication skills
• English at B2 level or higher for working with international vendors and clients

Будет плюсом

• Experience working in a game development outsourcing company
• Proven experience managing external QA teams or vendors: coordinating their work, quality, and timelines
• Ability to evaluate vendor performance and control testing-related costs at scale
• Experience with Unity-based projects
• Experience with soft launch and preparing games for release on the App Store / Google Play
• A pragmatic view on automation and tooling in game QA — understanding where it pays off, such as build smoke tests, backend checks, economy / IAP / analytics validation, device-farm compatibility runs, or Unity test tooling, and where manual testing remains the better choice
• Interest in exploring AI-assisted testing is a plus, as we are open to investing in this area
• Part-time remote work
• Salary in US dollars
• Zero bureaucracy, minimal micromanagement and streamlined approvals
• Small friendly agile teams
• English lessons in groups of 3-4 participants

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