Responsibilities

• The QA Manager will be charged with the responsibility of overseeing Quality Assurance for one of the titles produced by gumi Asia
• Consolidate the current embedded and remote QA testers into a strong cohesive QA team that adopts best practices and industry-standard common testing methodology and processes
• Help spearhead any future adoption of Automated Testing for mobile titles
• Identify testing gaps, anticipate issues and provide solutions, expert advice and risk mitigation to management and producers for their titles
• Work with other team managers and stakeholders including production and engineering to create tools and processes for QA testing
• Provide expert knowledge around testing related domains through knowledge sharing
• Formulate and standardised QA testing strategies for development and operations using internal test teams and external vendors while remaining flexible to individual team needs
• Provide leadership, develop and train a pipeline of high quality testers of various seniorities to support gumi's titles
• Provide ongoing assessment of resource needs to deliver within schedule and resource constraints

Requirements

• Acute risk analyst who can provide expert advice, pre-empt and mitigate issues on the quality of the product while not losing focus on the overall game plan
• Experienced manual tester who is able to create, review and vet relevant test cases for our mobile games
• Team player who can build strong relationships with internal and external teams to deliver the needs of the titles as well as the requirements of QA needs and tools
• Strong understanding and comprehensive experience in game quality assurance
• Experience in remote team management, and hybrid functional team management
• Manager with at least 3 years of team management experience who can mentor, motivate and develop team members of various levels
• Strong multi-tasker capable of leading testing, managing internal team, vendors and product teams to contribute to the overall goals of the company
• Experience in Agile methodology, JIRA and other project management and bug tracking tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are critical
• Game industry experience especially for mobile games with ongoing live operation will be highly advantageous