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.