Test Manager Overwatch Irvine CA

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The concept of Blizzard polish that is the infinite care and loving detail put into every aspect of our games is something we take seriously and pride ourselves on delivering to our players. Its a responsibility shared across the company and its undisputed heart and soul is Blizzard Entertainment Quality Assurance (QA). Blizzard QA is a closeknit team; we care about problem solving providing opportunities for professional growth and succeeding together. We genuinely love what we do for a living and expect the same from everyone who joins us. If your career is ready for its next great challenge get in touch and lets get to work!

The Test Manager at Blizzard oversees QA operations and testing for a product ensuring software quality and process improvement. This role involves managing the endtoend test team aligning with departmental and organizational strategies. The Test Manager establishes standards for crossfunctional teams manages product test schedules and resources and drives a strategic vision for quality assurance. Responsibilities include addressing projectimpacting issues managing team members performance for excellence and promoting software development best practices. This role plays a crucial role in delivering epic gaming experiences for customers and key internal partners.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position with some work onsite and some workfromhome. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine CA.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the endtoend management of the test team for a product or section of a product ensuring alignment with department and organizational strategies across globally distributed teams.
• Establish standards for crossfunctional teams encompassing strategy test and reporting while ensuring the quality of all deliverables workflows and relationships.
• Manage product test schedules team needs dependencies and resources collaborating with key quality stakeholders to incorporate advanced testing methods into the testing strategy.
• Analyze data to report on and shape the quality strategy promote software development best practices and enhance the customer experience.
• Conduct regular business reviews provide qualityrelated services to production leadership and manage the master test plan for the product.
• Lead partner and collaborate on quality initiatives and projects with regional teams partners and stakeholders and QA teams to contribute to the longterm QA vision and foster proactive and engaging communication with stakeholders.
• Partner with teams across Blizzard to lead quality initiatives ensuring project issues are resolved effectively.
• Provide leadership support and guidance to assigned team ensuring their performance is managed effectively and fostering a productive positive collaborative work culture.
• Champion efforts that build synergy trust collaboration and inclusivity within the organization. Own and manage relationships with key partners resources colleagues and leaders ensuring transparency around critical decisions and tradeoffs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance.
• Minimum of 5 years directing the work of individual contributors and multiple levels of leadership and teams.
• Experience with game engines content and asset editors and shared technologies.

Knowledge & Skills

• High School diploma or equivalent required. Bachelors Degree in a related field preferred.
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) specifically QA processes in agile and waterfall development environments.
• Be an expert in one or more software testing methodologies.
• Practical knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle MySQL & SQLServer. Working experience with Jira process.
• Proven ability to analyze interpret and act on data sets and complex workflows.

EXTRA POINTS

• White box testing experience.
• Coding Knowledge: XML / HTML JavaScript Python Java C / C / C# SQL.
• High level of gaming knowledge and/or skill.
• Passion for Blizzards line of products and services.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft Overwatch Diablo and StarCraft Blizzard Entertainment Inc. a division of Activision Blizzard which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industrys most critically acclaimed and genredefining games over the last 30 years with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle Xbox PlayStation Nintendo Switch iOS and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard Inc. is one of the worlds largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty World of Warcraft Overwatch Diablo Candy Crush and Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical emotional and financial wellbeing for Every World weve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fastpaced and will continue to evolve. As such the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other underrepresented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification when in fact they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position please email your request to General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age marital status veteran status or disability status among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical emotional and financial wellbeing for Every World weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical dental vision health savings account or health reimbursement account healthcare spending accounts dependent care spending accounts life and AD&D insurance disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match tuition reimbursement charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation paid sick time floating holidays compassion and bereavement leaves parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs fitness programs free and discounted games and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability legal service ID protection rental insurance and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary fulltime employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting the U.S. the standard base pay range for this role is $77760.00 $143920.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately your specific range and offer will be based on several factors including relevant experience performance and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this roles range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates new hire compensation is negotiable.