QA Lead

Skydance
Santa Monica, Austin, Seattle
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 70,000 - 90,000 annuallyFunction: QA, Test & Release EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: high_schoolSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Mentoring"]

QA Lead overseeing test strategy and execution across multiple game titles. Responsible for planning test plans, coordinating with internal and external partners, driving automation and CI integration, exploring AI-assisted QA tooling, and coordinating 1st-party certification. Leads a testing program with a focus on quality, efficiency, and scalable tooling within a studio environment.

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QA Lead

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Job Summary

QA Lead overseeing test strategy and execution across multiple game titles. Responsible for planning test plans, coordinating with internal and external partners, driving automation and CI integration, exploring AI-assisted QA tooling, and coordinating 1st-party certification. Leads a testing program with a focus on quality, efficiency, and scalable tooling within a studio environment.
Location: Santa Monica, Austin, Seattle
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: QA, Test & Release Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Plan, develop, and oversee the execution of project test plans across one or more titles, ensuring work lands on time and at the quality bar the studio sets.
  • •Partner with development to provide testing support and feedback across gameplay systems, content, and game balance.
  • •Bring an engineering mindset to the QA function, integrating tests into CI, improving build verification, and shortening feedback loops.
  • •Explore how AI tooling can extend QA, including test case generation, log triage, and smarter bug deduplication, and deploy thoughtfully.
  • •Own the operational backbone of QA: 1st party certification coordination with Production and Development, clear status reporting, and proactive prioritization.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 70,000 - 90,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of professional QA experience on software projects, with 3+ years in a QA Lead role.
  • •Experience leading internal test teams and/or overseeing external test partners.
  • •Functional and usability testing experience across multiple gaming platforms and genres.
  • •Fluent with Jira (or equivalent) for tracking work, managing assignments, and pulling data for reports.
  • •Solid grounding in QA concepts, terminology, tooling, and debugging workflows.
Experience:5+ yearsGamingInteractive entertainment
Education:High School
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingCollaborationMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JiraPythonJavaScriptC#CI/CDUnreal EngineUnity

Company Brief

Skydance
Skydance is a diversified media company producing and financing feature films, television series, and interactive entertainment. It partners with major studios and talent to develop global franchises and original content across multiple platforms.
Industry: Film & Television
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Private Equity Backed
Headquarters: Santa Monica, United States
Founded: 2010
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