Electronic Arts

🔑Your Responsibilities

Project Management

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards

• Align teams towards outlined goals and ensure milestone achievement

• Balance scope, timelines and overall project quality

• Identify and mitigate risks, manage blockers, prioritize tasks, and ensure project goals are met

• Ensure effective reporting to leadership and stakeholders

• Oversee strategic delivery of major aspects of a AAA title

Team Leadership and Collaboration

• Build, mentor and support QA teams, ensuring professional development and effective team collaboration

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement

• Collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders, including developers, analysts, and producers

• Encourage partner engagement

Process Efficiency

• Track and report on QA metrics, such as defect density and defect leakage

• Implement effective change management

• Improve operational effectiveness of team effort by assessing current practices, incorporating new strategies, and increasing predictability

Resource Management

• Scope and capacity management across the QA team

• Oversee planning and execution of QA efforts from pre-production through post-launch

• Budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis to ensure cost-effectiveness and financial efficiency.

• Determine and manage resource requirements for the project

People/Talent Management

• Coordinate talent management and succession planning to improve the testing discipline

• Monitor and evolve talent skill mix through training and recruitment plans

• Foster a culture of diversity and inclusion

• Identify opportunities to share practices, tools, and analytics across studios

• Conduct performance reviews, career development, and training

✅ Our Requirements

Experience and Knowledge / Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience

• 5+ years of game or software development QA experience, including 3+ years in a lead/manager role.

• Experience managing multi-discipline teams and working with remote teams

Skills and Abilities

• Experience working in a continuous deployment environment

• Understanding of software development processes

• Strong stakeholder management and communication

• Experience with white-box/gray-box testing techniques

• Experience in data analysis tools like Power BI is desirable

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