Sr. Manager, QA Engineering & Automation

Scopely•Culver City, CA

11d•$112,200 - $165,300

About The Position

Scopely is seeking a Senior QA Manager, Automation & Tooling to support a soon-to-be-announced AAA mobile game. The role may be remote in the US or Canada, or hybrid in Culver City. The successful candidate will lead the automation strategy for a live game and build the people, processes, frameworks, and tools needed to scale quality across frequent releases and a large active player base. They will partner with Engineering, QA, Live Operations, and other disciplines to make automation a shared responsibility and a core part of product quality. This is an opportunity to shape quality engineering from the ground up for a high-scale live mobile game. The role combines team leadership and hands-on technical work, with responsibility for automation strategy, frameworks, testing practices, CI/CD integration, quality metrics, and cross-organizational release excellence. Automation should complement—not replace—exploratory and risk-based testing.

Requirements

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# is 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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Game-testing experience.
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.

Responsibilities

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 scalable quality gates.
Partner with Engineering and QA to prioritize automation, improve testability, integrate testing into CI/CD, and establish shared ownership of automated tests, including automation in 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, and define 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 while ensuring automation supports—not replaces—strong exploratory and risk-based testing.