Senior QA Project Lead - Multiple Projects

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We have an exciting opportunity for a candidate experienced in leading QA teams to advance their career as our new Senior QA Project Lead. The successful candidate will need to leverage their extensive experience in QA to manage the team and a variety of assigned projects. 

Your role is to manage the quality of the project and ensure that it is to an industry-leading standard, making sure that the development is in line with the project’s design, and the intended platforms requirements. Your focus is to lead a team of QA Analysts to test games in line with your direction. 

This role is based at our studio in Runcorn, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, lead and motivate test teams.
• Work collaboratively with Production and other departments to ensure project QA requirements are clearly understood then effectively managed through the project lifecycle.
• Plan, create and execute project QA strategies.
• Plan, create and execute project test plan & cases.
• Delegate test cases to test team directly, clearly and efficiently.
• Perform assessments of projects with development and production teams to identify all areas requiring tests, providing risk assessments, and avoiding problems and bottlenecks in the QA process.
• Proactively solve project issues with the test teams and QA Manager, before they impact the project.
• Actively mentor the QA team while leading by example and being a role model for the QA team.
• Actively maintain morale and create an atmosphere of enthusiasm.
• Update & make sure that your line manager is aware of your project’s status.
• Administer and enforce the quality and consistency of bugs as per the project requirements.
• Monitor and manage the bug databases to ensure the team’s efficiency and productivity.
• Set, monitor and achieve goals through the test team.
• Work closely with external stakeholders as required to support QA activities.
• Undertake regular check-ins with team members, including career dialogues and performance reviews as required.

Requirements

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize efficiently.
• Strong leadership skills and decision-making abilities.
• Strong logical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Resilience, accountability, and responsibility.
• Active listening skills, ability to motivate and incorporate input from within the team.
• Self-motivated, innovative, and analytical with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent knowledge of game testing models.
• Extensive knowledge of bug testing and project tracking software (JIRA, Devtrack).
• Exceptional knowledge of the video game development process.
• An excellent understanding of the 8th and 9th generation of consoles and PC platforms.

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:  

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days) 

• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision 

• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover 

• Enhanced Family Leave  

• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans 

• Enhanced Pension Scheme 

• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support  

• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!  

About Us 

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms. 

Find out more about us here 

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being. 

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products. 

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers

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