QA Lead

Azra Games is recapturing the childhood thrill of storytelling with your entire toy box through modern AAA role-playing games. Led by veteran designer Mark Otero - the original director of Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, EA’s most successful mobile game of all time, with $1.5 billion in lifetime revenue - we’ve assembled an expert team with decades of experience building blockbuster games.

Our debut release, UnGodly, will be Mark’s ninth RPG - and his best yet. We believe in harnessing technology, including generative AI, to transform how great games are made.

The UnGodly development team is looking for a QA Lead to build and lead a distributed QA team, establish scalable quality practices, and drive release excellence. You’ll collaborate across disciplines to deliver high-quality live game experiences for our players.

This role is open to remote candidates in the US and Canada, with a hybrid option in Sacramento, CA.

What You Will Do

• Lead daily QA operations, partnering with team leads to align priorities, assignments, and schedules with project goals.
• Own QA planning for capacity, certification, risk management, and Alpha, Beta, and Final build signoff criteria.
• Train and support external QA teams, ensuring consistent testing standards and coordination with internal teams and other vendors.
• Manage TestRail projects and approve test plans and test cases.
• Own the Jira bug database, ensuring effective issue tracking, triage, and reporting.
• Communicate quality risks, issues, and progress to stakeholders, partners, and executives.
• Improve QA, release, and deployment processes, establishing scalable practices that support the title’s growth.
• Partner with engineering, live operations and customer support to deliver a high-quality player experience.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of professional QA experience, including 2+ years leading teams across the full game development lifecycle.
• Proven experience supporting a live mobile game with a large, active player base.
• Strong knowledge of software development, testing methodologies, and QA best practices.
• A track record of improving processes, driving change, and embedding QA within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience building and leading distributed teams.
• Experience partnering with live operations, marketing, and customer support.
• A proactive, resourceful mindset: able to work autonomously, seek out answers, and take ownership of results.
• Ability to adapt to ambiguity and shifting development priorities while maintaining high quality standards.
• Proficiency with bug-tracking and test-management tools.
• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.

Bonus Points

• Experience in mobile free-to-play or core gaming.
• Familiarity with release management, test automation, and quality metrics.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve QA workflows, expand test coverage, and increase testing efficiency.

Compensation

For California candidates, the base salary range for this role is $90,000 - $110,000 per year. The ranges listed is what we expect to pay applicants for this role at the time of posting. If you reside in a different location. we will advise on the applicable range.