Quality Assurance roles explained

Quality Assurance Manager

A Quality Assurance Manager oversees the game testing process, ensuring that the game meets high standards of functionality, performance, and quality.

As a QA Manager, you’ll lead a team of testers, coordinating efforts to identify bugs, glitches, and other issues in the game. You’ll be responsible for developing test plans, tracking progress, and working with developers to ensure that problems are addressed before the game’s release. Managing deadlines, reports, and the testing budget will also be part of your responsibilities.

Many QA Managers have backgrounds in quality assurance, game development, or project management, often with degrees in related fields. Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills are essential.

For this role, you should be passionate about ensuring quality, have strong attention to detail, and enjoy managing teams. You’ll need to keep the testing process on track and ensure that the game meets both technical and gameplay standards.

Your portfolio should highlight your experience managing testing teams, with examples of how you’ve ensured a game’s quality through structured testing processes.

You’ll love this role if you’re into
  • Being organised
  • Writing
  • Reading

In your own time, at your own pace

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