Escape Velocity Entertainment

QA Engineer

• Lead Quality Assurance for a AAA game development team
• Lead embedded testing teams and partner with cross-functional leadership to balance quality, schedule, and risk
• Define global QA strategy, test objectives, quality gates, and risk-based testing methodologies for major project milestones
• Integrate QA into early development planning and the feature lifecycle
• Mentor and develop QA Leads and testers
• Manage internal and external QA resources
• Oversee functional, gameplay, performance, stability, multiplayer, and platform certification testing
• Monitor defect trends and quality risks; prioritize critical issues through resolution
• Analyze defect data, identify systemic quality issues, and drive root-cause analysis and preventative initiatives
• Communicate emerging quality risks and technical assessments to Production and project leadership
• Establish QA schedules and deliverables for major milestones; assess build stability and release readiness
• Coordinate final regression and stabilization during release periods
• Lead first-party certification preparation and track submission risks
• Represent QA within project leadership and advocate for quality
• Build cross-disciplinary partnerships and shared quality ownership
• Manage external vendors and co-development QA teams
• Implement reporting and dashboards for build health, test coverage, and milestone progress
• Improve QA efficiency through automation, tooling, and process retrospectives

Test Manager – Quality Assurance

• Lead Quality Assurance for a AAA game development team
• Lead embedded testing teams
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to balance quality, schedule, and risk
• Define global QA strategy, test objectives, quality gates, and risk-based testing methodologies for major project milestones
• Integrate QA into early development planning and the feature lifecycle
• Mentor and develop QA Leads and testers
• Manage internal and external QA resources
• Oversee functional, gameplay, performance, stability, multiplayer, and platform certification testing
• Monitor defect trends and quality risks, prioritizing critical issues through resolution
• Analyze defect data, identify systemic quality issues, and drive root-cause analysis and preventative initiatives
• Communicate emerging quality risks and technical assessments to Production and project leadership
• Establish QA schedules and deliverables for major milestones
• Assess build stability and release readiness
• Coordinate final regression and stabilization during release periods
• Lead first-party certification preparation and track submission risks
• Advocate for quality as senior QA representative within project leadership
• Build cross-disciplinary partnerships for shared quality ownership
• Manage external vendors and co-development QA teams
• Implement data-driven reporting and dashboards for build health, test coverage, and milestone progress
• Improve QA efficiency through automation, tooling, and process retrospectives