Lead QA Tester
UK Remote or West Midlands-based / Full-Time Contractor
Please note: We welcome applicants who prefer to work from home; however, we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.
Role:
As a Lead QA Tester, you will lead quality-assurance activity across a technically complex, continuously evolving game. You will define effective test approaches, maintain clear visibility of product quality, and work closely with development and production teams to identify risks early, support release readiness, and ensure a reliable player experience across new features, updates, and online functionality.
Responsibilities:
- QA Leadership and Test Planning:
- Lead the creation, maintenance, and execution of comprehensive test plans, ensuring appropriate coverage across features, systems, updates, and release candidates.
- Set clear QA priorities, coordinate testing activity, and ensure risks, blockers, and quality concerns are identified and escalated promptly.
- Build Quality and Reporting:
- Monitor build health, test progress, defect trends, and quality metrics, maintaining dashboards and reports that give the team clear, actionable visibility.
- Work with engineering and production to investigate build issues, improve stability, and support informed release decisions.
- Functional, Regression, and Live Testing:
- Oversee functional, regression, and exploratory testing across core gameplay, online functionality, updates, and player-facing systems.
- Ensure fixes are appropriately verified and that new changes do not introduce unacceptable quality or stability risks.
- Collaboration and Process Improvement:
- Partner with producers, designers, engineers, and QA colleagues to define quality expectations and build testing into development plans.
- Improve QA processes, documentation, reporting, and knowledge-sharing practices, while providing guidance and support to testers.
Essential:
- Strong experience leading QA activity for game-development projects.
- Expertise in test planning, test-case design, defect management, regression testing, and release-readiness assessment.
- Experience using dashboards, build statistics, and quality metrics to identify trends and communicate risks.
- Strong understanding of build verification, functional testing, and live or online game testing.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple priorities and stakeholders.
- A proactive, detail-oriented leadership style, with a focus on practical problem solving and continuous improvement.
What We Offer:
Based just outside Birmingham, Flix is made up of welcoming, passionate, active gamers that support one another in all aspects of development. We offer you to:
- Join a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio.
- Work on market-leading AAA titles and IP with globally reputable studio and publisher partners.
- Be part of a sustainably growing game developer studio as we consciously expand our team and projects on a case-by-case basis.
- Learn within an independent studio across a wide range of projects and opportunities both internal and external.
Application:
Please send through your portfolio and cover letter. If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners. Links to an online portfolio are preferable, otherwise we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.
Send your application to – careers@flixinteractive.com
If you love making games and you would like to contribute to a team and project where your drive and skills will be welcomed and encouraged, then we would love to hear from you.
GDPR COMPLIANCE – When applying for this job you’re authorising Flix Interactive to store your application information and distribute it to the appropriate email inboxes of senior team members in order to review your role eligibility.
Your application will be stored on a private cloud based online system for processing. If you would like us to update, delete or refine your application please email info@flixinteractive.com. Your request will be appended within 30 days of receiving your email.
Please note – In compliance with GDPR law your data will be used for recruitment purposes only. We are unable to accept candidates requiring visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.
