[Hiring] Senior QA Manager, Automation & Tooling @Scopely

Role Description

Scopely is looking for a Senior QA Manager, Automation & Tooling to join our team supporting a soon-to-be-announced AAA mobile game title. This role can be remote in the US and Canada, or hybrid in Culver City.

You will lead the automation strategy for a live game, building the people, processes, frameworks, and tooling required to scale quality across frequent releases and a large, active player base. You will partner closely with Engineering, QA, Live Operations, and other disciplines to establish a development culture where automation is a shared responsibility and a core component of product quality.

This role is an opportunity to shape how quality engineering evolves from the ground up for a high-scale live mobile game.

What You Will Do

• Define and execute the QA automation strategy for a live mobile game, including scalable frameworks, tooling, standards, and quality gates.
• Build and lead an automation team from the ground up, including hiring, team structure, processes, mentorship, and career development.
• Design, build, and implement automated testing across UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, mobile, and live-operations workflows.
• Evaluate automation approaches, frameworks, platforms, and traditional or AI-assisted tools based on coverage, maintainability, speed, and value.
• Establish automation standards, coding practices, test architecture, reporting, observability, and quality gates that can scale with the game and organization.
• Partner with Engineering and QA to prioritize automation, improve testability, integrate testing into CI/CD, and establish shared ownership of automated tests, ensuring automation is part of the definition of done for every feature.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through framework design, prototypes, code reviews, automation implementation, and test-script development.
• Mentor manual testers as they develop coding and automation skills, while defining metrics for coverage, stability, flakiness, execution time, and defect detection.
• Communicate quality risks, automation progress, and investment needs while partnering with Product, Live Operations, Marketing, Customer Support, Localization, and external development teams.
• Champion quality and release excellence across the organization while ensuring automation supports—not replaces—strong exploratory and risk-based testing.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in QA, test automation, or quality engineering, including 4+ years leading or building automation teams.
• Proven experience creating automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure for complex products, ideally from the ground up.
• Experience evaluating automation approaches and tools, integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and scaling quality practices for frequent live releases.
• Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages; C# preferred.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, automation architecture, coding practices, testability, and software development lifecycles.
• Experience mentoring manual testers in coding, automation, and automated test-script development.
• Proven ability to align Engineering and QA around automation, shared quality ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with mobile testing and familiarity with traditional and AI-assisted testing tools; game-testing experience preferred.
• Experience with test management, defect tracking, source control, build systems, CI/CD, and release-management tools.
• Strong communication, organization, analytical, stakeholder-management, and distributed-team leadership skills.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on a live mobile, free-to-play, or core game.
• Experience with mobile-device farms, emulators, simulators, or cloud-based device testing.
• Experience testing Unity, Unreal, or other game-engine-based products.
• Experience with API, backend-service, data, performance, load, or reliability automation.
• Experience automating live events, remote configuration, experimentation, monetization, or service-driven game features.
• Familiarity with AI-powered test generation, test maintenance, visual validation, defect triage, or code-assistance tools.
• Experience establishing automation metrics, quality dashboards, and engineering quality gates.
• Experience working across internal and external development partners.