Lead QA Engineer (GameDev)

Job Title: Lead QA (mobile games) / Head of Testing Department (possible growth from Middle QA) Location: Chelyabinsk, office-based work

About the Project: We are looking for a strong QA lead (or someone ready to become one) for mobile games to strengthen the team and develop the product Arcane Crystals with us — a collectible battler with match-3 battles and hero merging. We maintain a cozy GameDev studio atmosphere and foster close team relationships, which allow us to create mid-core mobile hits.

Tools/Technologies: Jira, Confluence, Unity, Firebase, Logcat, Figma, Nakama, Xsolla/ЮKassa, Google Sheets, CI/CD pipelines, LLM (in autotests).

Your responsibilities will include: 1. Management and Strategy: — Review and development of the testing team (3 middles): mentorship, knowledge sharing, leading by example; — Task distribution and planning of testing deadlines; — Development of test strategies and automation plans for complex game projects; — Incident analysis and quality management at the process level (special attention to the release cycle); — Implementation of test reports and quality metrics. 2. Active Manual and Automated Testing: — Testing on devices and in the Unity editor; — Performing smoke, pre-release, load, full, and regression testing; — Collecting and parsing logs (including crash logs from the server), working with databases (SQL queries for analytics). 3. Infrastructure and Innovations (key requirement): — Setting up pipelines, triggers, artifacts; — Working with logs, metrics, and traces to analyze autotest runs; — Implementation of LLM approaches in autotests and test frameworks (using LLM as an automation tool); — Load testing (performance and fault tolerance).

To join the team, you will need:

Mandatory: — QA experience of 3+ years (preferably in game development, mobile games). — Deep knowledge of Unity (working in the editor, emulation).

— Hard skills: Proficiency in automation tools, API, and enhanced LLM approaches (experience applying LLM in autotests or within test frameworks). Confident SQL (working with analytics, parsing crash logs from the server). Skills in working with infrastructure: setting up pipelines, logs, metrics, traces. Experience in load testing.

— Soft skills: Ability to be a mentor, share knowledge, and lead the team. Critical thinking and a "breaker" syndrome (desire to break the product).

Will be a plus (we will consider candidates with potential): — Lack of lead experience, but with strong potential and a desire to grow in management.

We offer:

— Employment from day one, white salary (level discussed individually after the technical interview, targeting Lead / strong Senior level); — Flexible start of the workday (from 8:00 to 10:00); — Innovative office space in the center of Chelyabinsk or remote format within Russia; — Direct, short communication. No formalism or endless meetings; — Regular participation in game jams and conferences; — Active internal communications: knowledge sharing, gifts and merchandise, corporate events, quizzes;

✔️ We are in the registry of accredited IT companies by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation.