About the company
Riot Games Sydney partners with Riot teams globally and contributes across games and technology spaces including VALORANT, League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and broader R&D and tech initiatives. At Riot, quality is more than defect discovery. It is a set of values, practices, and behaviors that shape how we build, decide, and deliver for players.
Responsibilities
- Own the quality approach for teams or product areas and ensure quality activities are considered across every stage of the software development lifecycle
- Lead initiatives that shift quality left through automation, tooling, and process improvements
- Identify, create, and evolve test frameworks and automation strategies
- Help define and implement test approaches as part of an overall quality and test strategy
- Help shape our approach to quality in an evolving AI landscape
- Use metrics and reporting to surface quality risks, trends, and opportunities
- Provide craft leadership and coaching for QA and partner disciplines
- Help define, adapt, and socialise quality standards and practices
- Partner with engineering, delivery, design, creative, and production leaders to diagnose quality risks
- Contribute to growing the quality craft through hiring, mentorship, and cross-team leadership
- Work in partnership with Game and Central teams to drive strategic initiatives
Requirements
- 8+ years of software quality assurance or quality engineering experience
- Experience defining and implementing test approaches as part of an overall test strategy
- Experience coaching QA team members on test design, planning, and execution
- Experience driving continuous improvement processes
- Experience leading or maturing automated testing frameworks, tools, or processes
- Experience using quality metrics, telemetry, or reporting to assess quality health
- Experience working effectively across disciplines and influencing teams
- Experience handling multiple simultaneous projects and partners
- Experience tasking or partnering with remote teams
- Experience establishing product or business-unit quality standards
- History of leading strategic quality initiatives with broad organisational impact
- Strong judgment in ambiguous problem spaces
- Strong technical acumen
- Ability to adapt quality strategy to emerging development practices, including AI-assisted workflows
Conditions
- Full-time role based in Sydney, Australia
- Work/life balance, open paid time off, flexible work schedules
- Medical, dental, and life insurance
- Parental leave
- 401k with company match