Craft: Your role within our Kingdom
We are looking for an amazing Senior QA Lead with strong communication skills and the ability to guide, mentor, and develop a team of QA Specialists, whilst building a strong working relationship with everyone.
We want to provide a safe environment for self-growth, which supports personal goal setting and offers constructive feedback, helping the team get the best out of their career through mentorship and training.
You will develop and train King's highly skilled QA team to deliver QA standard methodologies and testing, so having a QA background is meaningful.
You'll help with hiring, retention, onboarding new staff, helping to run performance reviews and identifying any performance issues in the teams preventing them from reaching their best outcomes.
You will also be a part of our QA leadership team in Barcelona, helping to move our strategy forward, and continuously evolving the Central QA services we provide to our games.
Core responsibilities: Line manage, mentor and coach your team to improve their efficiency so that they become more productive over time.Analyze our different testing service processes and determine solutions where required.Work closely with all stakeholders ensuring your team has all the information needed, and the testing results are properly delivered.Work closely with our Central QA team to make the best use of available resources to meet the testing demand from across King.Build objective and key results for strategic directions based on team needs and process improvement.Create accurate action plans, estimations and reports for future service and people related initiatives.Make sure your team has the resources they need to get their job done.Deliver quality with a good pace and maintain an accurate balance between speed and quality.Focus on crafting strong awareness of why team development and dynamics are significant to long-term success.Help teams recognize what is healthy and unhealthy in their dynamics and how to try innovative ways or adjustments.
When conflict arises, help the team identify root causes rather than symptoms, and seek to find the win-win or overlapping goals and conditions when mediating.Skills to create thrills: Ability to build strong working relationships with peers and being comfortable directing a team of 10 to 15 highly skilled people.Practical experience in hiring and training new QA Specialists ensuring that they understand their roles and alignment with the company objectives.Extended knowledge of QA processes (mainly Regression, Exploratory and Performance testing).People-oriented, knowing how to empower team members to achieve the highest levels of performance.Sophisticated project management skills in order to successfully drive QA initiatives towards a positive outcome by crafting clear and concise goals.Sophisticated presentation and facilitation skills.
Able to present and debate topics in front of large groups inside and outside the craft.Excellent interpersonal skills, including English proficiency (both spoken and written).About King: King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue.
Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King's games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021.
King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes: Making games is fun.
Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great.
We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life.
Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.
A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
Making the World Playful: Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar.
It's what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual.
We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we're not afraid to have fun along the way.
In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you.
There has never been a better time to join us.
We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead.
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