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This role can be remote in the US and Canada, or hybrid in Culver City.\nYou will lead the automation strategy for a live game, building the people, processes, frameworks, and tooling required to scale quality across frequent releases and a large, active player base. You will partner closely with Engineering, QA, Live Operations, and other disciplines to establish a development culture where automation is a shared responsibility and a core component of product quality.\nAt Scopely, we create and operate games played by millions of people around the world. This role is an opportunity to shape how quality engineering evolves from the ground up for a high-scale live mobile game.\nWhat You Will Do\nDefine and execute the QA automation strategy for a live mobile game, including scalable frameworks, tooling, standards, and quality gates.\nBuild and lead an automation team from the ground up, including hiring, team structure, processes, mentorship, and career development.\nDesign, build, and implement automated testing across UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, mobile, and live-operations workflows.\nEvaluate automation approaches, frameworks, platforms, and traditional or AI-assisted tools based on coverage, maintainability, speed, and value.\nEstablish automation standards, coding practices, test architecture, reporting, observability, and quality gates that can scale with the game and organization. \nPartner with Engineering and QA to prioritize automation, improve testability, integrate testing into CI/CD, and establish shared ownership of automated tests, ensuring automation is part of the definition of done for every feature.\nProvide hands-on technical leadership through framework design, prototypes, code reviews, automation implementation, and test-script development.\nMentor manual testers as they develop coding and automation skills, while defining metrics for coverage, stability, flakiness, execution time, and defect detection.\nCommunicate quality risks, automation progress, and investment needs while partnering with Product, Live Operations, Marketing, Customer Support, Localization, and external development teams.\nChampion quality and release excellence across the organization while ensuring automation supports-not replaces-strong exploratory and risk-based testing.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n8+ years of experience in QA, test automation, or quality engineering, including 4+ years leading or building automation teams.\nProven experience creating automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure for complex products, ideally from the ground up.\nExperience evaluating automation approaches and tools, integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and scaling quality practices for frequent live releases.\nHands-on programming experience in one or more languages; C# preferred.\nStrong understanding of testing methodologies, automation architecture, coding practices, testability, and software development lifecycles.\nExperience mentoring manual testers in coding, automation, and automated test-script development.\nProven ability to align Engineering and QA around automation, shared quality ownership, and continuous improvement.\nExperience with mobile testing and familiarity with traditional and AI-assisted testing tools; game-testing experience preferred.\nExperience with test management, defect tracking, source control, build systems, CI/CD, and release-management tools.\nStrong communication, organization, analytical, stakeholder-management, and distributed-team leadership skills.\nBonus Points\nExperience working on a live mobile, free-to-play, or core game.\nExperience with mobile-device farms, emulators, simulators, or cloud-based device testing.\nExperience testing Unity, Unreal, or other game-engine-based products.\nExperience with API, backend-service, data, performance, load, or reliability automation.\nExperience automating live events, remote configuration, experimentation, monetization, or service-driven game features.\nFamiliarity with AI-powered test generation, test maintenance, visual validation, defect triage, or code-assistance tools.\nExperience establishing automation metrics, quality dashboards, and engineering quality gates.\nExperience working across internal and external development partners.\nAbout Scopely\nScopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry - bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.\nFounded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team - including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses - Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.\nRecognized multiple times as one of the \"100 Most Influential Companies in the World\" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's \"World's Most Innovative Companies\" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good - creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.\nScopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/. \nNotice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @scopely.com.\nShould you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact . Our job applicant privacy policies are available here: California Privacy Notice and EEA/UK Privacy Notice.\nEmployment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. 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