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Game QA Project Manager
11 months ago
Title: Game QA Project Manager
Hours: Monday – Friday, Contract, Business Hours
Department: Games Quality Assurance (GQA)
Start: ASAP
This is a truly fantastic opportunity to join a global leader within the gaming industry and work on some of the best AAA titles in the world. You will be home-working initially but need to be available to go to the studio if requested. You will be working within a dedicated team of functionality experts for a specific gaming title (AAA). You will build and drive a comprehensive test strategy that covers testing builds for feedback and quality (at IP standard and IP protection levels).
The ideal candidate must be passionate about the delivery of high-quality gaming test services with a solid background and understanding across all gaming platforms.
As a member of the global QA Leadership Team, you'll be working closely with the wider team ensuring that project quality standards are upheld. Our ideal candidate will be a creative leader with experience in building quality-focused teams and delivering world-class projects. The successful candidate will have a positive outlook, and a professional manner. They will possess the ability to focus on tasks whilst being agile. A genuine passion for the video games industry is a must, as well as experience of playing a diverse range of game genres in a variety of formats and platforms.
Requirements
What you’ll be doing
- Drive the implementation of multiple project initiatives, working closely with cross-functional teams and resources to achieve milestones within established timeframes.
- Establish and implement best practices for organization, reporting and support of key delivery processes for the program.
- Capture and communicate program-related business, functional and creative information to project stakeholders and senior management.
- Leads key projects and initiatives for delivery operations.
- Facilitate and coordinate key project and program meetings.
- Manages client on-boarding process and deliverables, coordinating with all supporting teams.
- Helps prepare business cases and other documents in support of key initiatives.
- Effectively manages issues, risks, and dependencies.
- Ensure lessons learned are documented and implemented.
- Define ‘best practice’ methodologies with other Project Managers for future projects which span multiple lines of business.
What You’ll Need
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in a Project Management or similar role in the Video Games or related industry. Experience in outsource environment a plus
- Effective relationship builder and collaborator both with clients and internal stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects, resources and deliverables across different functions and locations globally.
- Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal, French language is a plus
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and work under pressure.
- Ability to deal with competing priorities.
- Resourceful, with a proactive and problem-solving nature
- Project management and PMO experience
- Ability to operate in the time zone required for a specific client or project
Nice to have
- Excellent understanding of full software localization cycle including translation, LQA and audio
- Project management certification, i.e. PMP, ACP, etc.
Benefits
What we offer:
- You will be working for the pre-eminent global provider of specialist services to the games industry and provided with full training and the opportunity to work on some of the biggest game clients, titles, projects, and tech in the world.
- Attractive remuneration, holidays, regular team competitions with great prizes; and inclusion into an extensive social calendar. Our environments thrive with collaborative team-work with people from all around the world, different nationalities, and languages.
- A supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability. We care about the wellbeing of our employees and have a dedicated employee wellbeing programme. We empower our people and offer regular progression opportunities to ensure our employees flourish.
- Learn as you work and be part of something real that changes the face of gaming - forever.
- Working with a global multi-lingual workforce with superb training and promotion and progression opportunities.
About us:
PTW is a boutique-with-scale games services company with over 40 studios in 12 countries worldwide. Our range of services includes art and audio production, game development, quality assurance, player support, community management, localization, localization QA, voice production, and data collection.
PTW Bucharest opened its doors in 2016 and has grown from providing Player Support to a range of mobile and AAA games publishers to also offering QA and Localization QA services.
We’re part of a global team of passionate, hard-working, ambitious gamers, whose goal is always to make every gamer’s experience as perfect as possible. For over 25 years, PTW has been providing industry-leading services to every part of the globe. From our humble beginnings as a single office in Japan in 1994, we’ve become a global force with offices across North America, Europe, India, and Asia. The PTW family of brands includes SIDE, 1518 Studios, entalize, and OR Esports. For more information, visit www.ptw.com and https://1518studios.com/
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