Sr. Manager, QA Engineering & Automation (Mobile Games)

Location: Remote in the US and Canada, or hybrid in Culver City, California, United States.

Annual salary: $112,200–$165,300 USD for candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA.

Company

hirify.global is a global video game and interactive entertainment company developing, publishing, and operating mobile, web, PC, and console games.

What you will do

• Define and execute the QA automation strategy, including scalable frameworks, tooling, standards, reporting, observability, and quality gates.
• Build and lead an automation team, including hiring, team structure, mentorship, and career development.
• Design and implement automated UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, mobile, and live-operations testing.
• Evaluate traditional and AI-assisted automation tools based on coverage, maintainability, speed, and value.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD and partner with Engineering and QA to improve testability and shared quality ownership.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, define quality metrics, communicate risks, and support release excellence across internal and external teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in QA, test automation, or quality engineering, including 4+ years leading or building automation teams.
• Experience creating automation strategies, frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure for complex products, ideally from the ground up.
• Experience evaluating automation approaches and tools, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and scaling quality practices for frequent live releases.
• Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages; C# preferred.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, automation architecture, coding practices, testability, and software development lifecycles.
• Experience mentoring manual testers in coding, automation, and automated test-script development.
• Ability to align Engineering and QA around automation, shared quality ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with mobile testing and familiarity with traditional and AI-assisted testing tools.
• Experience with test management, defect tracking, source control, build systems, CI/CD, and release-management tools.
• Strong communication, organization, analytical, stakeholder-management, and distributed-team leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with live mobile, free-to-play, or core games.
• Experience with mobile-device farms, emulators, simulators, or cloud-based device testing.
• Experience testing Unity, Unreal, or other game-engine-based products.
• Experience with API, backend-service, data, performance, load, or reliability automation.
• Experience automating live events, remote configuration, experimentation, monetization, or service-driven game features.
• Familiarity with AI-powered test generation, test maintenance, visual validation, defect triage, or code-assistance tools.
• Experience establishing automation metrics, quality dashboards, and engineering quality gates.
• Experience working across internal and external development partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work is available in the US and Canada; hybrid work is available in Culver City.
• Benefits may include healthcare, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid hirify.global free days, unlimited paid time off, equity, and bonuses.
• Work supports a live mobile game played by a large, active player base with frequent releases.
• Collaboration spans Engineering, QA, Live Operations, Product, Marketing, Customer Support, Localization, and external development teams.

Hiring process

• Apply only through hirify.global’s official website and verify that Talent Partner communications come from an @hirify.global.com email address.
• hirify.global will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process.