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We're looking for an experienced QA Automation Lead to help elevate quality across our games and platforms by driving automation excellence, mentoring quality engineers, and implementing modern quality engineering practices.\nAbout the Role\nThis is a hands-on leadership role for a highly technical quality professional. Working closely with the QA Manager, you will ensure the highest quality standards across multiple projects by building automation frameworks from the ground up, solving complex testing challenges, and empowering teams through coaching and mentorship.\nWhat You Will Do\nArchitect & Build: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable automation frameworks for web, mobile, and backend services supporting our gaming ecosystem.\nEnd-to-End Testing: Develop automated tests for functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end testing while analysing results to identify root causes.\nPipeline Integration: Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery practices.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with game teams and internal/external QA teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.\nMentorship & Training: Provide technical leadership to the Quality Engineering team, mentoring junior and senior engineers to grow their automation and programming expertise.\nCode Excellence: Conduct code reviews and lead training sessions on quality engineering best practices to promote high standards for maintainability and scalability.\n5+ years of experience in software quality assurance with a strong focus on automation.\nStrong hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, and Python/Java.\nStrong experience in using version control tools like GitHub\nProven experience designing and building automation frameworks from scratch.\nExperience testing mobile applications and web platforms, alongside strong software engineering fundamentals and API testing expertise.\nUnderstanding of Agile development methodologies and excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.\nKnowledge of AI-assisted testing tools and how generative AI can improve test creation, maintenance, analysis, and productivity.\nA strong passion for exploring emerging technologies that enhance software quality.\nBonus Points (Nice to Have)\nExperience testing mobile games, gaming platforms, or live-service products.\nFamiliarity with cloud testing platforms such as BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, Lambda Test, or AWS Farm.\nExperience with performance, reliability, or scalability testing.\nISTQB Automation or relevant quality certifications.\nRequirements\nBachelor's Degree\n5+ years of experience in software quality assurance with a strong focus on automation.\nStrong hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, and Python/Java.\nStrong experience in using version control tools like GitHub\nProven experience designing and building automation frameworks from scratch.\nExperience testing mobile applications and web platforms, alongside strong software engineering fundamentals and API testing expertise.\nUnderstanding of Agile development methodologies and excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.\nKnowledge of AI-assisted testing tools and how generative AI can improve test creation, maintenance, analysis, and productivity.\nA strong passion for exploring emerging technologies that enhance software quality.\nBonus Points (Nice to Have)\nExperience testing mobile games, gaming platforms, or live-service products.\nFamiliarity with cloud testing platforms such as BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, Lambda Test, or AWS Farm.\nExperience with performance, reliability, or scalability testing.\nISTQB Automation or relevant quality certifications.\nHow You Will Measure Success\n30 Days: Map out the existing technical architecture and build strong relationships with cross-functional game teams and external QA partners.\n90 Days: Design or upgrade our core web automation framework and establish a structured code-review process for the QE team.\n6 Months: Achieve a measurable reduction in manual regression cycle times and increase automated test coverage across critical paths.\nReady to level up your career? 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