About this role
About the Role You will own the quality approach for teams or product spaces, acting as a senior craft leader with influence across the Sydney studio and broader Riot organization. This role focuses on shaping quality strategy, driving test automation, tooling, and practical practices to improve both developer and player experience, including adapting to AI-assisted development. What You'll Do
- Own the quality approach for teams or product areas and ensure quality activities are considered across every stage of the software development lifecycle.
- Lead initiatives that shift quality left through automation, tooling, and process improvements that help engineers catch issues earlier and ship with more confidence.
- Identify, create, and evolve test frameworks and automation strategies that improve speed, coverage, sustainability, and reliability release over release.
- Help define and implement test approaches as part of an overall quality and test strategy.
- Help shape our approach to quality in an evolving AI landscape, including how teams use AI-assisted workflows responsibly and effectively while maintaining confidence in what we ship.
- Use metrics and reporting to surface quality risks, trends, and opportunities, then turn those insights into action with product and discipline leaders.
- Provide craft leadership and coaching for QA and partner disciplines, strengthening test design, planning, execution, and quality decision-making.
- Help define, adapt, and socialise quality standards and practices that are usable across multiple teams and scalable at product or business-unit level.
- Partner with engineering, delivery, design, creative, and production leaders to diagnose product and project quality risks and recommend targeted improvements.
- Contribute to growing the quality craft through hiring, mentorship, and cross-team leadership.
- Work in partnership with Game and Central teams to drive strategic initiatives. What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of software quality assurance or quality engineering experience, with multiple proven product successes.
- Experience defining and implementing test approaches.