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QA Manager
1 year ago
Description
Playtika (NASDAQ: PLTK) is a mobile gaming entertainment and technology market leader with a portfolio of multiple game titles.
Founded in 2010, Playtika was among the first to offer free-to-play social games on social networks and, shortly after, on mobile platforms.
Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, and guided by a mission to entertain the world through infinite ways to play, Playtika has offices worldwide and over 4,000 employees.
We are successfully applying our intuitive understanding of what players want. That's why we have over 35 million players.
As a digital entertainment powerhouse, Playtika processes more than 9TB of data daily. Our games are continuously evolving journeys, personalized to deliver new challenges and surprising thrills, at every twist and every turn.
At Playtika we don’t just build games, we bring them to life!
We are looking for an experienced QA manager to join one of the most successful social casino game studio in the world.
Working from our office in Bucharest, you will be reporting directly to the QA Group Manager of Social casino game studios in Playtika and you will be primarily responsible for creating and implementing both strategic and operational plans for Quality activities.
You will be working closely with senior management to establish QA related processes, workflows and best practices, and to ultimately deliver transformative functional quality services.
In addition to your experience, we are looking for demonstrated leadership as well.
As QA manager you will be responsible for evolving QA engineers to a whole new level through training, mentoring, development, and ultimately raising the bar and standards for the entire quality of the studio.
Excellent cross-functional communications and relationship building with stakeholders, development teams, and business partners is critical to the success of this role.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning and Implementation of quality aspects
- Building a new QA and QC strategy to change the operational method from manual to automation
- Develop and deliver on annual goals and objectives for quality assurance that are measurable and time-based
- Implement plans to achieve these goals and cascade them across the engineering teams.
- Develop and implement automation testing methodologies in order to reduce time to market within CI/CD process of the product
- Pioneer the next level of QA best practices for design and tech in the game industry.
- Continually seek methods to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and partner satisfaction of QA.
- Deliver Effective, Efficient, and Expedited QA services
- Significant focus on project test operations including reviews, resources, schedule, risks, roadblocks, etc.
- Ensure that all QA testing projects are executed to exceptional quality.
- Ensure that QA teams maintain excellent levels of communications with development teams and business partners.
- Work in collaboration with external teams such as CICD, IT OPS, SLS, INFRA and others.
- Builds a culture of quality and automation in the studios and serves as an ambassador for all quality action
Requirements
- Applied Experience in testing strategy transformation in order to reduce time to market
- Deep understanding of CI/CD processes and delivery pipelines
- Hands-on experience in building test automation frameworks for Module testing, API, Mobile and Web
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the industry
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience with managing a QA function in the organization of a similar size
- Deep domain expertise in testing methodologies, technology, and processes
- Able to build and lead a team of test industry experts
- Metrics and data-driven mindset with ability to define and manage test KPIs
- Excellent verbal and written skills with the power to persuade and drive continuous improvement while maintaining/building strong partner relationships
- English level: Intermediate+
- Energetic, positive attitude and relentless self-motivation
- Knowledgeable in test automation tools, commercial or open source
- Experience with test automation pyramid concept
- Experience with software testing in an agile culture
Nice to have:
- Passion for social gaming titles; gamer in general
- Programming skills knowledge
Benefits
- Quarterly & Performance Bonus
- Daily Lunch
- Fresh Fruits, Yogurts, Ice-cream, Snacks, Drinks, Coffee etc.
- Meal Vouchers
- Holiday Vouchers
- Long Weekends
- 1 Day Off for your birthday
- Private Medical Subscription
- Private Dental Subscription
- Private Pension
- Wellbeing Plan
- Birthday Gift
- Bonus & Gift Cards for special events (Easter, 1st of June, 8th of March, Christmas)
- Transport Settlement
- Parking Facilities
- Exciting company events
- Games: pool table, ping-pong, fussball, air hockey etc.
- Central Location: Timpuri Noi
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
Come play with us!
A word from the manager
Your Experience & Skills
- Applied Experience in testing strategy transformation in order to reduce time to market
- Deep understanding of CI/CD processes and delivery pipelines
- Hands-on experience in building test automation frameworks for Module testing, API, Mobile and Web
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the industry
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience with managing a QA function in the organization of a similar size
- Deep domain expertise in testing methodologies, technology, and processes
- Able to build and lead a team of test industry experts
- Metrics and data-driven mindset with ability to define and manage test KPIs
- Excellent verbal and written skills with the power to persuade and drive continuous improvement while maintaining/building strong partner relationships
- English level: Intermediate+
- Energetic, positive attitude and relentless self-motivation
- Knowledgeable in test automation tools, commercial or open source
- Experience with test automation pyramid concept
- Experience with software testing in an agile culture
Nice to have:
- Passion for social gaming titles; gamer in general
- Programming skills knowledge
What will you be doing?
- Strategic Planning and Implementation of quality aspects
- Building a new QA and QC strategy to change the operational method from manual to automation
- Develop and deliver on annual goals and objectives for quality assurance that are measurable and time-based
- Implement plans to achieve these goals and cascade them across the engineering teams.
- Develop and implement automation testing methodologies in order to reduce time to market within CI/CD process of the product
- Pioneer the next level of QA best practices for design and tech in the game industry.
- Continually seek methods to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and partner satisfaction of QA.
- Deliver Effective, Efficient, and Expedited QA services
- Significant focus on project test operations including reviews, resources, schedule, risks, roadblocks, etc.
- Ensure that all QA testing projects are executed to exceptional quality.
- Ensure that QA teams maintain excellent levels of communications with development teams and business partners.
- Work in collaboration with external teams such as CICD, IT OPS, SLS, INFRA and others.
- Builds a culture of quality and automation in the studios and serves as an ambassador for all quality action
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