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# Manager, QA Engineering & Automation

- **Company:** Scopely, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $112,200 - $165,300
- **Contract:** Franchise
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Software Bug Management, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Emulators, Video Game Development, Software Engineering, Test Management, Strategies of Testing, Backend, Build Tools, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-manager-qa-engineering-automation-scopely-company-10610540

## About the Role

* 8+ years of experience in QA, test automation, or quality engineering, including 4+ years leading or building automation teams.
 * Proven experience creating automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure for complex products, ideally from the ground up.
 * Experience evaluating automation approaches and tools, integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and scaling quality practices for frequent live releases.
 * Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages; C# preferred.
 * Strong understanding of testing methodologies, automation architecture, coding practices, testability, and software development lifecycles.
 * Experience mentoring manual testers in coding, automation, and automated test-script development.
 * Proven ability to align Engineering and QA around automation, shared quality ownership, and continuous improvement.
 * Experience with mobile testing and familiarity with traditional and AI-assisted testing tools; game-testing experience preferred.
 * Experience with test management, defect tracking, source control, build systems, CI/CD, and release-management tools.
 * Strong communication, organization, analytical, stakeholder-management, and distributed-team leadership skills.

Bonus Points

 * Experience working on a live mobile, free-to-play, or core game.
 * Experience with mobile-device farms, emulators, simulators, or cloud-based device testing.
 * Experience testing Unity, Unreal, or other game-engine-based products.
 * Experience with API, backend-service, data, performance, load, or reliability automation.
 * Experience automating live events, remote configuration, experimentation, monetization, or service-driven game features.
 * Familiarity with AI-powered test generation, test maintenance, visual validation, defect triage, or code-assistance tools.
 * Experience establishing automation metrics, quality dashboards, and engineering quality gates.
 * Experience working across internal and external development partners.

## Description

* Define and execute the QA automation strategy for a live mobile game, including scalable frameworks, tooling, standards, and quality gates.
 * Build and lead an automation team from the ground up, including hiring, team structure, processes, mentorship, and career development.
 * Design, build, and implement automated testing across UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, mobile, and live-operations workflows.
 * Evaluate automation approaches, frameworks, platforms, and traditional or AI-assisted tools based on coverage, maintainability, speed, and value.
 * Establish automation standards, coding practices, test architecture, reporting, observability, and quality gates that can scale with the game and organization.
 * Partner with Engineering and QA to prioritize automation, improve testability, integrate testing into CI/CD, and establish shared ownership of automated tests, ensuring automation is part of the definition of done for every feature.
 * Provide hands-on technical leadership through framework design, prototypes, code reviews, automation implementation, and test-script development.
 * Mentor manual testers as they develop coding and automation skills, while defining metrics for coverage, stability, flakiness, execution time, and defect detection.
 * Communicate quality risks, automation progress, and investment needs while partnering with Product, Live Operations, Marketing, Customer Support, Localization, and external development teams.
 * Champion quality and release excellence across the organization while ensuring automation supports-not replaces-strong exploratory and risk-based testing.