About the role
Job Overview
(Hybrid, full time)
The Quality Assurance (QA) Lead makes quality visible to producers, developers, management, and platform partners. This role involves leading an international QA team in a partly remote environment while maintaining hands-on involvement to influence outcomes, handle critical releases, address complex problems, and shape testing methodologies in an AI-assisted world.
About CoolGames
CoolGames is a leading international HTML5 game studio working with major platforms including Netflix, Discord, Facebook, and Microsoft Play. The studio develops games utilizing famous IP such as Battleship, Angry Birds, and Monopoly. CoolGames is part of Keesing, the world’s largest Braintainment company, headquartered in The Netherlands with a presence in over 20 countries. The company values creativity, collaboration, and delivering world-class gaming experiences.
About the Role
The QA Lead acts as the interface between QA and the rest of the company, ensuring quality is understood rather than just measured. The role works in tandem with a QA Lead Specialist to share line management, reporting, and strategic responsibilities, allowing both leads to remain close to the work.
Responsibilities
- Bridging the gap between QA, production, development, and management by turning test results into risk assessments, status reports, and clear go/no-go advice.
- Serving as the voice of QA internally and externally, maintaining standards in front of external partners and platform holders.
- Performing line management duties including 1-on-1s, team growth, workload management, and hiring.
- Weighing quality risk against business objectives to make calculated trade-offs.
- Planning QA capacity across parallel projects and releases, raising flags when quality is at risk.
- Owning quality reporting, including release readiness, coverage, and bug trends.
- Challenging the team to identify opportunities and improvements.
- Evaluating AI tools to determine where they genuinely accelerate testing without sacrificing fundamental quality standards.
Requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to translate technical test results into clear decisions for non-technical stakeholders.
- At least 7 years of experience in software testing, including leading or coordinating a QA team (gamedev experience is a strong plus).
- Solid grounding in SDLC and STLC, test design techniques, and various testing types and levels.
- Experience planning QA across parallel projects and platforms (mobile, desktop, web, social) in an Agile setting.
- Proficiency with Jira and TestRail (or similar tools), including reporting.
- A pragmatic, evidence-based perspective on the application of AI in testing.
- Ability to think in trade-offs rather than absolutes and hold the line when necessary.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification such as ISTQB.
- Test automation experience (writing, reviewing, and debugging end-to-end tests), ideally with Playwright, Cypress, or WebdriverIO using JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience with version control and CI integration (Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab).
- Experience working directly with external partners or platform holders.
- Experience introducing AI-assisted workflows within a QA team.
Benefits
- Participation in an international team of 50+ professionals from nearly 20 countries.
- Opportunity to work with major global game platforms on high-quality casual games.
- Competitive remuneration including health care insurance, travel costs compensation, company pension plan, and a sport allowance.
- Market-competitive salary.
- Flexible remote working environment for parts of the week.
- Open, informal, and international company culture.