QA Lead (onsite in Auckland, NZ)

About The Company
Our client is an Auckland based game studio focused on creating deep, engaging player experiences supported by complex systems and regular content updates. The team values thoughtful collaboration, technical excellence, and practical decision making. Quality is treated as a shared responsibility throughout development, not something checked at the finish line.

The Role
You will take ownership of quality across a live Unity game featuring dozens of characters, abilities, and interconnected systems.

You will lead the QA team, define the studio’s quality strategy, and identify where automation, exploratory testing, and player focused testing will have the greatest impact.

Working closely with Engineering, Design, Production, and Leadership, you will help improve testability throughout development, maintain confidence in automated testing, and ensure results are reliable and useful.

You will own QA triage and support release decisions by helping teams understand risk, prioritise issues, and make informed decisions about patches, updates, and new content.

You will also improve QA tools, workflows, and reporting, manage the relationship with an outsourced QA partner, and coach teams to build stronger quality practices across the studio.

This is an onsite role in Auckland, NZ. Visas are not supported for this role but relocation from within NZ and Australia are.

Key Skills & Traits
Essential

• Strong experience working in QA within the games industry
• Experience shipping and supporting live games
• Proven experience leading QA teams and improving quality practices
• Strong testing fundamentals across complex game systems
• Ability to create and drive a clear QA strategy
• Sound judgement when balancing automation and human testing
• Technical understanding of automation, testability, and development pipelines
• Experience leading bug triage and supporting release decisions
• Strong communication skills across Engineering, Design, Production, and Leadership
• Ability to influence teams and build a culture where quality is everyone’s responsibility
• Existing NZ work rights.

Desirable

• Experience working on mobile free to play games
• Experience with Unity projects and development pipelines
• Hands on experience with scripting, automation, or QA tooling
• Experience supporting patches, hotfixes, and live service stability
• Experience managing outsourced QA partners
• Knowledge of console certification processes

Sound like your next move? Apply via the Supaglu website or get in touch with Sam Marsh via email at ******@supaglu.com.au to have a confidential discussion.