QA Test Lead (Dayshift)

Amber Studio is the largest independently-owned Romanian game development studio, offering premium creative and development services.

Experience and Qualifications

• Previous exposure to Quality Assurance Processes and Methodologies.
• 1 – 2 years of proven experience in leading a QA team in various phases of its development, from pre-alpha to live deployments.
• Demonstrated understanding and proven aptitude in people management, communication and customer driven focus.
• Demonstrated understanding and proven aptitude in workload management, problem solving, research and analysis and project planning and execution.

Personal Traits
• Highly self-driven and a proactive leader.
• A passion for delivering high quality games.
• An overall passion for mentoring his team members and growing them professionally.
• Ability to learn, plan and be organized.
• Open and honest approach to challenges.
• A strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Very good communication skills in English, both verbal and written.
• Understanding of business needs and pressures in relation to testing operations.
• Provide a positive role model, in terms of both work performance and attitude.
• Creative solving of technical problems.

Nice to have
• Experience with test automation methodologies.
• Previous experience with mobile and web platforms (Android, iOS, Windows, Facebook).
• Previous experience with testing freemium games as well as the ability to analyse monetization systems.

Key Roles

• Provides task breakdown, planning, dependencies and time estimates for team’s assignments.
• Interfaces with the domain experts (e.g. development and production teams).
• Responsible for self and the staff members in the team based on request (people management, task management).
• Responsible for initiating communication between teams (local and external).
• Is responsible for the effective use of test hours on his area of influence (this includes adding or removing tasks on high risk issues).
• Validates issues under his area of influence and ensures quality standards are met.
• Understands the purpose of test automation. Provides insight on what processes can be automated to ensure a basic level of efficiency.
• Mentors individual contributors within project team; ensures all have professional development plans.

What We Offer

- An attractive salary along with meal tickets
- Medical Services Package
- Professional and friendly working environment
- Relaxation areas with all sorts of activities