Sr. Manager, QA Engineering & Automation
Culver, CA - USA
Job Summary
Scopely is looking for a Senior QA Manager Automation & Tooling to join our team supporting a soon-to-be-announced AAA mobile game title. This role can be remote in the US and Canada or hybrid in Culver City.
You 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.
At 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.
- Define and execute the QA automation strategy for a live mobile game including scalable frameworks tooling standards and quality gates.
- Build and lead an automation team from the ground up including hiring team structure processes mentorship and career development.
- Design build and implement automated testing across UI API integration regression end-to-end mobile and live-operations workflows.
- Evaluate automation approaches frameworks platforms and traditional or AI-assisted tools based on coverage maintainability speed and value.
- Establish automation standards coding practices test architecture reporting observability and quality gates that can scale with the game and organization.
- Partner 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.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through framework design prototypes code reviews automation implementation and test-script development.
- Mentor manual testers as they develop coding and automation skills while defining metrics for coverage stability flakiness execution time and defect detection.
- Communicate quality risks automation progress and investment needs while partnering with Product Live Operations Marketing Customer Support Localization and external development teams.
- Champion quality and release excellence across the organization while ensuring automation supportsnot replacesstrong exploratory and risk-based testing.
- 8 years of experience in QA test automation or quality engineering including 4 years leading or building automation teams.
- Proven experience creating automation strategies frameworks tooling and infrastructure for complex products ideally from the ground up.
- Experience evaluating automation approaches and tools integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and scaling quality practices for frequent live releases.
- Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages; C# preferred.
- Strong understanding of testing methodologies automation architecture coding practices testability and software development lifecycles.
- Experience mentoring manual testers in coding automation and automated test-script development.
- Proven ability to align Engineering and QA around automation shared quality ownership and continuous improvement.
- Experience with mobile testing and familiarity with traditional and AI-assisted testing tools; game-testing experience preferred.
- Experience with test management defect tracking source control build systems CI/CD and release-management tools.
- Strong communication organization analytical stakeholder-management and distributed-team leadership skills.
- Experience working on a live mobile free-to-play or core game.
- Experience with mobile-device farms emulators simulators or cloud-based device testing.
- Experience testing Unity Unreal or other game-engine-based products.
- Experience with API backend-service data performance load or reliability automation.
- Experience automating live events remote configuration experimentation monetization or service-driven game features.
- Familiarity with AI-powered test generation test maintenance visual validation defect triage or code-assistance tools.
- Experience establishing automation metrics quality dashboards and engineering quality gates.
- Experience working across internal and external development partners.
For candidates in CA CO NJ NY and WA the annual salary range is provided addition to base pay employees may be eligible for equity bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare benefits retirement benefits pet insurance paid holidays paid Scopely free days and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience.
CA CO NJ NY and WA Annual Salary Range
$112200 - $165300 USD
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company home to many of the worlds 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.
Founded 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 Scopelys 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.
Recognized multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World by TIME magazine and one of Fast Companys Worlds 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.
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Scopely is expanding the possibilities of play through game experiences that aim to inspire community, connection and competition. Inspire play, every day.