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Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social media and check out our YouTube channel and Beyond the Game Blog where we share behind-the-scenes insights and stories direct from our team members!\n CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a QA Lead to join theCyberpunk 2 project. In this role, you will manage a gameplay QA team within the project, adapting the project QA strategy into clear team plans, priorities and measurable outcomes.\nYou will be responsible for developing a high-performing QA team, ensuring reliable milestone verification, maintaining visibility on gameplay quality status and risks, and continuously improving QA workflows, tools, reporting, and gameplay testing practices within your area of ownership.\nYou will collaborate closely with Production, Development, Tech, Shared Development Services, QA Experts, other QA Managers, and cross-functional teams to support gameplay integrity, engine and tools quality, performance, stability, gameplay consistency, and development pipeline reliability.\nPlease submit your CV in English. Candidates must demonstrate English proficiency at a minimum C1 level.\nResponsibilities:\nLeading, mentoring, and developing the gameplay QA team while fostering accountability, role clarity, and continuous skill growth.\nAdapting & Implementing the overarching Cyberpunk 2 QA strategy into practical testing approaches, measurable outcomes, and clear team priorities.\nOwning testing execution and milestone verification, ensuring tasks are completed on time and meet gameplay quality standards.\nMonitoring gameplay quality metrics, KPIs, and bug trends to identify risks early and build practical mitigation plans.\nPartnering with development, production, and external QA vendors to coordinate dependencies, gameplay requests, and alignment.\nMaintaining clear, data-informed reporting on quality status, blockers, and project readiness for all relevant stakeholders.\nDriving continuous improvements in QA workflows, tools, testing frameworks, technical documentation, and overall team effectiveness.\nProviding direct assistance with complex investigations, issue analysis, and debugging workflows when required.\n 5+ Years Previous experience Leading or Managing QA Teams\n5+ Years Experience with direct performance management and career development\nStrong knowledge of testing methodologies, bug workflows, defect management, test planning, test coverage, QA practices, and quality reporting.\nExperience with game engines and editors, preferably Unreal Engine.\nStrong understanding of game development lifecycles and the ability to develop and execute testing strategies covering integration, stress, performance, stability, tools, engine, platform, and technical feature validation.\nExperience working with QA metrics, KPIs, bug trends,\nExperience with performance analysis, profiling tools, crash analysis, memory investigations, platform-specific testing, or console development environments.\nExperience with Unreal insights, engine profiling, crash debugging\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly present technical quality status, risks, blockers, priorities, and recommendations.\nExperience creating and maintaining test documentation, test plans, test reports, dashboards, or quality summaries.\nExperience improving QA workflows, reporting models, dashboards, technical metrics, or test management processes\nExperience working with external QA vendors, distributed QA teams, or cross-location development teams.\nStrong ownership, accountability, emotional maturity, and ability to work effectively under pressure, ambiguity, and changing priorities.\nStrong alignment with RED values and the ability to act as a role model in communication, decision-making, collaboration, and leadership.\nAvailability to work 10:00 AM-6:00 PM is required to maintain several hours of overlap with the Boston team.\nNice to have:\nExperience working on AAA Titles. \nExperience with User Experience Research (UXR), focus groups, usability testing, and gathering player feedback to inform product and design decisions\nExperience with automation frameworks, automated test authorship, build verification, CI/CD pipelines, or technical validation workflows.\nExperience with performance, stability, tools, engine, platform, and technical feature validation.\nInterest in the Cyberpunk universe and passion for delivering high-quality player experiences in large-scale RPGs.\n Working mode\nIn-office in a hybrid or full-time capacity in Warsaw, Poland.\nRelocation to Poland is required for those residing abroad.\nWorking hours 10:00 AM-6:00 PM is required to maintain several hours of overlap with the Boston team.\nRelocation Support\nRelocation package - flight ticket, company apartment for your first month, relocating your pet, shipping your belongings - it’s all covered. \nRelocation assistance - processing your legalization operations for you, assistance with finding residence, tax settlements - all you need to feel right at home is taken care of.\nPolish lessons for foreign employees - and for your spouse or partner, too.\nHealth & Well-Being\nPrivate medical healthcare - a selection of medical plans with dental care and unlimited rehabilitation to choose from, which are also accessible for your partner and relatives.\nLife insurance - comprehensive pension and insurance plans to protect you and your loved ones.\nAnnual screenings for cancer prevention covered by the company.\nPsychological and psychiatrist care - free mental health support and various well-being initiatives.\nSports card - gain access to a wide number of sporting and fitness facilities across the city.\nMenstrual leave - employees who menstruate can take one extra day off when experiencing period pain.\nRED Parents Network - 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There’s always something to learn!\nREDs have access to the cafeteria platform through which they can receive subscription benefits, additional medical packages or vouchers and codes to shops, cinemas, and public transport reimbursement.\nGifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!\nSocial Activities & Life in the Office\nDog-friendly office - dog owner? Bring your pooch with you and look after them while working! There’s always a furry friend or two to meet at the studio.\nSocial events - we host regular gatherings at the studio where we can all unwind, play games, and just have some fun together.\nHealthy selections - canteens.\nTruly international working environment - a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.\nSustainability is an ongoing commitment for us, and our campus has electric car charging points, green zones, and much more. Read all about it on our Beyond the Game Blog.\nA designated space for your bicycle, as well as bicycle repair equipment and showers available whenever you need them.\nAn onsite, well-equipped gym with a climbing wall, daily Gym Assistant support, and yoga and boxing classes.\nNo dress-code - we like to keep it casual.\nEstimated pay range for this position: 23 900 - 32 800 PLN gross monthly. 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