[Hiring] Head of Quality Assurance @Meta

Role Description

Beat Games is seeking a Head of Quality Assurance to own and evolve the quality strategy across all our products. This is a senior leadership role. You won't manage people directly but will work with a team of vendors where you will own the partnership, set the technical direction, build the frameworks, define the standards, and influence teams across the studio to ship high-quality, reliable products at scale. You'll be the person who ensures our players experience Beat Games titles at the level of polish and reliability they deserve — across platforms, updates, and live-service content drops.

Responsibilities

• Quality Strategy & Vision:
  • Define and own the studio-wide QA strategy, encompassing functional testing, performance, compatibility, certification, and live-service quality.
  • Establish quality gates, release criteria, and risk frameworks that scale across multiple content updates.
  • Drive a quality-first culture across the studio, influencing engineering, design, art, audio, and production teams.
• Technical Leadership:
  • Advise and evolve the test automation infrastructure for VR-specific challenges in collaboration with the engineering team (tracking, haptics, latency, spatial audio, platform certification).
  • Influence the design of CI/CD-integrated testing pipelines that catch regressions early and reduce iteration time.
  • Evaluate and adopt emerging tools, including AI-assisted testing approaches, to multiply team effectiveness.
  • Own platform certification processes (Meta Quest, Steam) and maintain strong relationships with platform partners.
• Process & Frameworks:
  • Build scalable QA processes for live-service operations — DLC, seasonal content, events, and ongoing game updates.
  • Develop risk-based testing approaches that prioritize coverage where player impact is highest.
  • Create and maintain quality metrics and dashboards that provide actionable visibility to studio leadership.
  • Establish regression testing strategies that balance thoroughness with release velocity.
• Cross-Functional Influence:
  • Partner with engineering leads to embed quality practices into the development workflow (shift-left testing, TDD adoption).
  • Collaborate with production to integrate quality milestones into project planning and sprint cadences.
  • Work with Community and Player Support teams to close the loop between player-reported issues and systemic improvements.
  • Coordinate with Meta's broader Reality Labs QA and platform teams to leverage shared infrastructure and best practices.
• People and Culture:
  • Establish technical excellence standards for our vendor partners.
  • Drive QA strategy using vendors and maintaining high standards in required roles and competencies.
  • Champion knowledge sharing across the studio and broader Meta QA community.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in QA and/or production, including senior leadership roles.
• Experience defining and owning end-to-end QA strategy for multiple shipped game titles, including test planning, risk assessment, and release criteria.
• Experience leading QA through full game development lifecycles — from pre-production through live-service operations — across multiple simultaneous projects.
• Experience with Live Incident Response such as On-call, Incident Resolution, Root Cause Analysis, Post-Mortems etc.
• Experience managing platform certification processes (PlayStation, Xbox, Meta Quest, or equivalent) and navigating platform partner relationships.
• Experience in influencing engineering and production teams to adopt quality practices without direct reporting authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Any combination of experience with AI/ML-assisted testing or exploratory automation testing.
• Experience with VR/XR-specific testing challenges, including motion tracking, latency sensitivity, or comfort and accessibility testing.
• Interest and experience in applying AI tools and workflows within the QA field.
• Experience working in distributed or remote teams across multiple time zones.
• Familiarity with rhythm games, music games, or other timing-critical interactive experiences in a work environment.
• Experience with Unreal Engine or Unity test tooling and automation.
• Experience designing test automation frameworks.
• Experience leading vendor and contingent worker QA teams, relationships, and budgets.