Quality Assurance (QA) Lead

Summary
We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented, hands-onQuality Assurance (QA) Lead to guide day-to-day testing efforts for our upcoming video game title. In this role, you will combine leadership responsibilities with direct testing work-driving quality across the project by identifying issues, implementing and improving testing practices, and working closely with cross-disciplinary teams. This is a key role in ensuring the game meets our high standards of performance, functionality, and player experience.
Core Responsibilities

• Own daily QA operations across multiple test areas, including planning, task assignment, and issue prioritization.
• Work directly in the game to test features, systems, and content across various platforms and development builds.
• Lead and mentor a small team of in-house and/or outsourced QA testers, setting clear expectations and delivering ongoing feedback.
• Partner with production, design, engineering, and art teams to triage bugs, clarify issues, and validate fixes.
• Build and maintain detailed test plans, test cases, and regression sweeps.
• Champion the player experience by driving usability and edge-case testing.
• Identify risks, provide test coverage analysis, and help shape the overall quality strategy for the project.
• Support milestone submissions with thorough smoke and regression testing.
• Contribute to improving QA tools, workflows, documentation, and standards.

Core Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in QA for video games, with at least one product cycle in a lead QA role.
• Experience testing on multiple platforms (PC, console, etc.).
• Proven ability to lead small teams and coordinate with other departments.
• Strong bug-writing, test documentation, and communication skills.
• Solid understanding of the game development cycle and various QA methodologies.
• Comfortable working in JIRA, TestRail, or similar test case and bug tracking tools.
• Have informed qualitative opinions on state-of-the-art 3rd person open-world gameplay, coupled with tactful feedback delivery.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.

Description

• Full time job with benefits
• Role is on-site in San Rafael, CA OR Santa Monica, CA

The base pay range for this position is $80,000 to $120,000 per year. Actual compensation is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer a competitive package of benefits including vacation time, sick time, company holidays, parental leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) match to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.