QA Manager
The Position
At Avalanche Studios Group, we are looking for a QA Manager to join our team and help shape how we think about quality — not just within QA, but across the entire studio.
This isn't a role about running a test department. It's about evolving how we build confidence in what we ship. You'll be responsible for moving our quality systems from reactive to proactive, improving production observability, and making quality a shared capability across Engineering, Production, Design and LiveOps. If you're someone who thinks systemically, values learning over blame, and gets energized by meaningful organizational change — we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
Drive continuous improvement across QA practices, workflows and collaboration models — and bring the rest of the studio along for the ride
Champion quality ownership across disciplines, reducing dependency on late discovery and reactive firefighting
Improve operational visibility into quality risks, verification pressure and release readiness through better metrics, telemetry and reporting
Identify systemic bottlenecks and recurring failure patterns, and do something about them
Evaluate and modernize QA tooling, test infrastructure and verification workflows
Build strong collaboration between embedded QA, operational QA functions and QA Partners
Support, mentor and grow the people in your team — setting clear expectations, fostering psychological safety and encouraging continuous learning
Own people management responsibilities including performance, goal-setting, career development and hiring
Who You Are
You think at the organizational level, not just within the walls of QA
You value observability and transparency over process for process's sake
You're comfortable in complex, adaptive environments where the answer isn't always obvious
You balance structure with the flexibility to iterate and improve
You understand that sustainable quality systems have to work for the humans inside them
You have a track record of improving how teams collaborate around quality, not just how QA teams operate