QA Lead (AAA Games)

Location: Warsaw, Poland; office-first in full capacity from the Warsaw office. Relocation support is available, including assistance with legalization and tax settlements.

Salary: 23,900–32,800 PLN gross monthly.

Company

CD PROJEKT RED creates story-driven RPGs, including the Hadar project.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop the project QA team, including recruitment, onboarding, team structure, and capability building.
• Translate the project QA strategy into testing approaches, measurable outcomes, priorities, and milestone verification plans.
• Own testing execution and monitor quality metrics, bug trends, risks, blockers, and project readiness.
• Coordinate with development, production, technical teams, shared services, QA experts, external vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Perform exploratory, feature, regression, performance, stability, engine, tools, platform, and technical feature testing.
• Improve QA workflows, tools, frameworks, documentation, reporting, and debugging practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading and managing QA teams, preferably in AAA game development.
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, defect management, test planning, test coverage, QA practices, and quality reporting.
• Experience with game engines and editors, especially Unreal Engine.
• Understanding of game development lifecycles and testing strategies for integration, stress, performance, stability, tools, engine, platform, and technical validation.
• Experience with performance analysis, profiling, crash analysis, memory investigations, platform testing, or console development environments.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, ownership, accountability, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with user experience research, focus groups, usability testing, and player feedback.
• Experience with automation frameworks, automated test authoring, build verification, CI/CD pipelines, or technical validation workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Employment contract with 20–26 days of paid holiday and paid sick leave.
• Relocation package covering flights, temporary accommodation, pets, family, belongings, legalization, and tax assistance.
• Private medical care, dental care, rehabilitation, life insurance, mental health support, and preventive screenings.
• Polish lessons, training, lectures, courses, e-learning, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Dog-friendly office with a gym, climbing wall, yoga and boxing classes, bicycle facilities, canteens, and regular social events.
• Family support, childcare benefits, parental activities, and company-supported summer programs for children.