Lead QA (Mobile Games) / Head of Testing Department (Growth from Middle QA possible)

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 with us. Arcane Crystals is a collectible battler with match-3 battles and hero merging. We maintain a cozy GameDev studio atmosphere and foster close team relationships that allow us to create mid-core mobile hits.

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

Responsibilities:

1. Management and Strategy: — Review and development of the testing team (3 middle QA engineers): mentoring, 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 server crash logs), 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; — Implementing 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:

Required: — 3+ years of QA experience (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 skills (working with analytics, parsing server crash logs). Infrastructure management skills: setting up pipelines, logs, metrics, traces. Experience with load testing.

— Soft Skills: Ability to 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 strong potential and desire to grow in management.

We offer:

— Employment from day one, white salary (level discussed individually after technical interview, targeting Lead / strong Senior level); — Flexible start to the workday (from 8:00 to 10:00); — Innovative office space in the center of Chelyabinsk or remote format within Russia; — Direct short communications. 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 included in the registry of accredited IT companies by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation.