Manager, Quality Assurance - VALORANT
Sydney · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 20, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Sydney
About the role
- As a Manager of Quality Assurance on VALORANT, you will lead quality strategy and people across some of VALORANT’s most technically complex and cross-cutting domains.
- You will manage quality owners responsible for a variety of areas within the game with a primary focus on the Game Engine, Technical Art, and Release Engineering that power VALORANT.
- You will be accountable for defining and executing a comprehensive test strategy that supports multiple cross-functional development teams, while shaping and promoting the vision of quality assurance across Riot.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage QA professionals working across multiple teams and areas of VALORANT, with a specific focus on Foundations.
- Hold teams accountable for upholding quality and player impact as an essential factor in decision-making.
- Partner with other craft leaders to influence craft and product decisions through quality insights and risk analysis.
- Assesses quality, risk, and complexity, and communicates clear mitigations and priorities to development teams and leadership.
- Coaches and supports direct reports through complex quality challenges, representing their plans and needs with initiative leadership.
- Partners with other disciplines to improve development workflows and define quality bars or targets that align with initiative goals.
- Monitors quality health and defect trends, maintaining data-driven reporting and continuous improvement systems that inform decision-making.
- Drives quality feature planning and executes testing coverage plans with teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years Quality Assurance Experience, with experience in a leadership role
- Performance test tooling and automation
- Experience creating test strategies for products
- Experience with test design, planning and control
- Experience with product development pipelines and workflows
- Experience managing performance of embedded QA professionals
- Experience working with remote testing teams
- Experience establishing quality metrics that influence strategy and drive change
Benefits
- open paid time off policy
- paid parental leave
- flexible work schedules
- Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness fund
- Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
- Learning and Development opportunities
Skills
- Performance Test Tooling
- Automation
- Test Design
- Product Development Pipelines
- Quality Metrics
- Agile Work Systems
- GaaS
- ISTQB
- ICAgile Agile Testing (ICP-TST)
- Game Engine
- Software Release
- Deployment Pipeline
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