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Deployment Manager
1 year ago
GSN Games (A Scopely Company) is looking for a Deployment Manager to work with our Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem and The Walking Dead: Road to Survival game teams in India.
About Scopely : (GSN Games, part of Scopely since 2021)
Founded in 2011, Scopely (www.scopely.com) is one of the fastest-growing private mobile games companies today, having tripled revenues from 2018 to 2020. The company has one of the most diverse mobile games portfolios in the industry with success across both casual and core games—from social player vs player (PVP) to mid-core role-playing games (RPG) to massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy— and is known for its ability to build loyal and engaged player communities with a dedication to long-term, player-first experiences. It is Home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including “Star TrekTM Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Scrabble® GO,” “WWE Champions” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.
It’s proprietary technology platform Playgami supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry. Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies, Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and has global operations in Australia, Boston,Barcelona, Bengaluru, Boulder, Dublin, London, Kyiv, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Seoul, Seville,Shanghai, Singapore, San Francisco, Tokyo, Washington D.C., with additional game studio partners in seven countries across four continents.
Scopely acquired GSN Games from Sony Pictures Entertainment in October 2021 and subsequently GSN Games' successful free-to-play mobile game titles: Tiki Solitaire Tripeaks,Bingo Bash and GSN Casino are an important part of Scopely’s portfolio.
About Looney Tunes :
Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem has delighted fans for the last 4 years on iOS and Android,and is actively working to identify further expansion opportunities. The game has grossed over 100M in revenue and upwards of 40M downloads since launch. It’s a mobile RPG with over 225+ characters, and a ton of content, in-depth features, live events and is continuing to create fun and immersive experiences for our players.
About The Walking Dead - Road to Survival :
RTS has grossed more than $100 million / year on iOS and Android and is actively working to identify further expansion opportunities. It’s a mobile RPG with over 1000 characters, and an immense amount of content and mature features, which are ever-expanding.
What You'll Do :
- Develop QA Resource Plans, including but not limited to Alpha / Beta / Final build criteria signoff, Capacity Planning, Certification, and Risk Management.
- Create documentation for SDK testing tutorials, device coverage matrices, and new feature spec breakdowns.
- Setup and own projects in the JIRA bug database, setting up dashboards, and communicating issues to partners.
- Setup projects and approve testing plans and new test cases in Test Rail (test management system).
- Be responsible for GDF gate sign-offs on behalf of QA and own the Release Criteria process for the entire team.
- Manage test accounts across HockeyApp, Facebook, Google Play, and Test flight Beta as well as others.
- Train and manage remote and external functional QA testing teams and their output.
- Support and train the external development QA testing teams and their output to interact seamlessly with the other functional QA vendors.
- Responsible for organizing and maintaining all build and build distributions for your projects to the appropriate audience at the appropriate time based on project needs including core team, functionality QA, localization, localization QA, licensors and to all internal Scopely stakeholders for review.
- Plan, lead, and own the localization and localization QA planning and execution.
- Project set-up and execution in localization tool including teams, structure, languages, build generators and project structures based on project needs. (GRIDLY)
- Partner with localization partner on translation plan and execution incl. ensuring all required materials are available such as glossaries, GDD, reference build, content context, string comments/instructions/limits where applicable and more. Ensure all translator queries are addressed. Ensure dev is receiving the translations in a correct and timely format.
- Partner with localization QA partner on Localization QA plan and execution incl. ensuring flows, cheats, appropriate checklists, facebook logins, tool access and more is set up. Manage daily workflow, answer localization QA queries, track velocity against progress tracker and provide direct fixes from localization tools to Dev.
- Manage your projects listing in iTunes Connect, the Google Play Developer Console and other submission tools including the input of IAPs, Leaderboards, Achievements, and the submission/release of each new version.
- Manage the tracking and distribution of submission specific information for your project to ensure that Production, Marketing, Deployment, and Account teams are aligned on the specifications of each version release and receive updates on 1st party review status.
- Build and maintain strong relationships within the QA teams, external vendors and all development partners
- Partner with Deployment team to ensure that projects are remaining up to date with latest legal requirements, data privacy requirements, Facebook, etc.
What you need :
- Degree level education or equivalent experience.
- Passion for mobile games and experience working on games as a live service.
- 4 years of managerial experience in a functionality QA PM or Manager function that encompasses iOS and Android projects.
- Minimum 5 years of QA experience.
- Proven ability to manage a test team both internally and remotely.
- Experience working in an internal or distributed QA environment and manage remote teams.
- Strong and demonstrated knowledge of project management, software development methodologies
- Previous experience of building test plans, capacity plans to support those test plans and execute against them.
- Communicate in a clear and concise manner both written and verbally.
- Proactively identify risks, changes needed and execute solutions, with appropriate sense of urgency.
- Proficient with setting up and navigating through JIRA, Google Docs, Google Sheets/Excel, and a build distribution management system (HockeyApp preferred)
- Familiarity with the Google Play Developer Console, iTunes Connect, Amazon Developer Console, and other 1st party submission tools.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
More About Our Benefits :
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 entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional, and financial well-being for employees- we’ve got our employees covered.
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