About the role
Company Profile
Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers. The company released its debut title, League of Legends, in 2009. Riot emphasizes a collaborative culture, particularly in its China offices, by removing traditional hierarchical title structures to foster individual autonomy, ownership, and results-oriented teamwork. The company views Quality as a set of values, practices, and behaviors integrated into the development process.
Role Overview
The Senior QA Engineer – Compliance & Release leads quality efforts for Wild Rift’s platform releases. This role defines platform certification strategies, compliance reviews, and release readiness to protect player trust and ensure a seamless experience for patches, game launches, and live service content.
Responsibilities
- Own the release QA process from submission readiness to first-party certification and launch testing.
- Drive compliance testing implementation, including Age Rating, EULA, and regional compliance, in partnership with the FQA team.
- Define best practices for platform testing, compliance, and regression across builds.
- Partner with product teams to align test plans with platform certification requirements and live player needs.
- Act as the QA expert on first-party platforms including App Store, Google Play, and console.
- Establish and track release quality metrics and drive data-informed decisions with partners.
- Lead and mentor other QA engineers, including reviewing test suites and monitoring execution.
- Coordinate external testing vendors to ensure output meets Riot quality standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance asset and build delivery pipelines for smooth QA testing.
- Represent the voice of the player in product readiness conversations and propose improvement suggestions.
- Provide visibility and transparency to senior leadership regarding QA quality metrics and product quality readiness.
- Communicate quality risks clearly and influence prioritization with production and engineering partners.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years in software or game QA, with multiple product launches in live environments.
- Experience with platform compliance and certification submissions.
- Ability to monitor post-launch metrics such as Crash Rate, ANR, and Update Failure Rate to identify root causes of production incidents.
- Familiarity with domestic game publishing policies and international platform (Apple/Google) submission guidelines.
- Experience in the automation of game packaging, incremental resource updates, and build generation.
- Deep understanding of game hot-update mechanisms and associated risks.
- Strong ability to coach junior QA teammates and influence across teams.
- Capability to own vendor relationships and deliver through external partners.
- Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills.
- Proficiency in mobile automated build pipelines (highly preferred).
- Fluency in Mandarin and English.
Desired Qualifications
- QA experience across multiple platforms (mobile, console, PC).
- Exposure to age rating, 1st party submissions, and regional compliances.
- Preferred licenses and certifications:
- ISTQB Foundation Level
- ISTQB Agile Tester or ICAgile Agile Testing (ICP-TST)
- ISTQB Expert Level
- ISTQB Advanced Test Manager
- ICAgile Test Expert (ICE-AT)