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QA Director

Demiurge is looking for an experienced, inspirational QA Director, working across multiple projects with internal and external QA Testers to ensure and maintain a stringent level of quality across all of our games beginning early in the development cycle, continuing into long running live operations. You possess a love of games and genuinely care about the quality of the titles you work on. You are comfortable operating at a senior level; coaching, advising and helping your team to grow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Guide and grow the Demiurge QA Testing team through mentorship, feedback and training.
• Coach and manage your direct reports, providing clear objectives to ensure they reach their full potential and identify areas where support is needed
• Expand the QA team size and capabilities through networking and hiring
• Define the QA department’s structure and strategy ensuring we have the right mix of experience, skills and strategy regarding permanent vs. contract testing capabilities
• Lead discussion in defining best practices for testing, testing processes and testing tools to ensure our teams are working as efficiently and effectively as possible
• Identify, procure, mobilize and manage independent testing contractors and/or outsourced QA testing groups
• Identify all QA dept. requirements and attend Heads of Department meetings to ensure your department is accurately represented. Work with cross-functional leaders to identify and resolve gaps in our quality and standards controls
• Develop staffing and hiring plans for building required test expertise where necessary.
• Work with Production, Talent Acquisition and Project Leads to ensure QA recruitment needs are clear and fulfilled at all times
• Continually seek opportunities for improvement in current processes
• Promote quality as a discipline throughout the organization

Must Have Qualifications:

• Prior experience growing, managing and directing internal and external QA Testing teams.
• Extensive hiring, interviewing and career management experience.
• You’ve performed performance reviews and developed career plans that continuously invest in the growth of your testers.
• A deep understanding of the relationship between business goals and software/game quality.
• Ability to balance hands-on work at the start and driving big picture strategy and planning to support a scaling business.
• Experience creating and executing on organization-wide QA goals.
• Familiarity with industry standard tools and advanced understanding of QA best practices.
• Well versed in all aspects of software testing including, but no limited to automated testing, accessibility testing, performance testing, load testing, security testing, configuration and platform testing.
• Game quality leadership experience on multiple shipped titles and through all phases of the development life cycle from conception to live operations.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other cross functional leaders
• 10+ years of game development experience.

Preference to Applicants with:

• Experience using test automation systems (either off the shelf or custom) and involvement in helping define usage and drive adoption.
• Understanding of technical and performance requirements of all platforms with experience creating strategies to assess and adapt to those accordingly.
• Understanding of scaled Agile methodologies and history structuring test teams to support these scaled methodologies and larger teams.
• Administration experience of JIRA bug tracking databases including setup of workflows relevant for their teams.

Demiurge Studios is a rapidly growing video game developer based in Cambridge, MA. Creating games is our passion and we bring years of expertise to our projects. The teams at Demiurge build fun, accessible games like our hit, Marvel Puzzle Quest. We also provide co-development services to larger, best-in-industry game companies. In that capacity, Demiurge has contributed to titles such as Bioshock, Rock Band, and Mass Effect.

Demiurge Studios is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, or Veteran status. Demiurge Studios also makes workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities or special needs.