QA LEAD

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

Larian Studios seeks a QA Lead to oversee and improve QA operations for multiple concurrent projects. Responsibilities include assigning tasks, fostering a positive team environment, conducting performance reviews, maintaining QA knowledge, facilitating postmortems and improvements, identifying and proposing solutions to issues, and creating/maintaining test plans. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years' experience in QA leadership, strong communication skills (English fluency is essential), expertise in cross-cultural collaboration, and a passion for video games. The role involves daily interaction with an international team.
Must have:
  • 3+ years QA leadership experience
  • Positive team attitude
  • Game production pipeline understanding
  • Strong written/verbal communication (English)
  • Cross-cultural team leadership
  • Task delegation skills
  • Critical analysis abilities
Good to have:
  • Jenkins and Perforce knowledge
  • Programming/scripting experience
  • Software/tool QA experience
  • JIRA, Confluence, Google Sheets familiarity
  • RPG genre expertise

Job Details

  • Location:
    Quebec
  • team: Quality Assurance
  • position: Full -time

QA Lead

With multiple awards to our name, Larian Studios has proven that we’re dedicated to delivering high-quality role-playing games. As we move on to new projects, the studio that brought you Baldur’s Gate 3 & Divinity: Original Sin 2 is looking for a QA Lead to join the team and help us in crafting the high caliber games our fans have come to expect

Responsibilities

• Perform consistent daily observation, research, review, and reporting of operations process adherence for all current assigned projects
• Assign tasks within the local QA team, and nurture a healthy working environment in alignment with company values
• Participate in the performance review process, help gather feedback, and share it with other QA teams internationally
• Maintain, advance, and promote knowledge in the field of quality assurance
• Gather feedback and data to create and facilitate both project postmortems and ongoing improvements
• Proactively identify possible issues, propose solutions, and plan goals for the QA department
• Overview, creation, maintenance, and prioritization of Test Plans for multiple, concurrent projects

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in QA operations in a leadership position
• Positive and team-oriented attitude
• Understanding of game production pipeline and tools
• Good judgment to estimate the significance and consequences of the bugs
• Rigorous and methodical, autonomous and resourceful approach
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English
• Expertise in cross-cultural business and remote team interaction and leadership
• Excellent ability to delegate tasks across a team
• Exceptional critical analysis skills
• Passion for video games

Nice to Have

• Basic knowledge of Jenkins and Perforce
• Experience in programming and/or scripting
• Experience in QA in software and tools
• Familiar with JIRA, Confluence, and Google Sheets
• Familiar with the RPG genre and you have played many RPGs extensively and critically 

We are looking for highly motivated individuals with ever-evolving skillsets and passion for player experience. If you want to contribute to making amazing RPG experiences, we would love to hear from you.

* Due to the global nature of our operations and the need to engage daily with an international team, fluency in English is essential for this position at Larian.

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About The Company

In 1996, in a small office in Ghent, Belgium, Larian Studios was born. Since then, our passion to create a world class video games has driven the Divinity series - six games that straddle multiple genres and defy expectations. Our first crowdfunded success, Divinity: Original Sin, won over 150 awards and nominations, and the recently-released sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 launched with a 93 Metacritic rating, as well as over 160 awards (Including the Bafta for Best Multiplayer Game) and counting! Thanks to the success of these two games, our family has grown to over 400 people around the world, working in our Ghent, Quebec, Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Guildford and Barcelona studios. Our latest title Baldur's Gate 3 released in 2023 to critical acclaim and is now listed among Metacritic's Must-Play games.

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