technical leadership within the Quality Engineering team
You will play a key role in shaping testing strategies for connected devices, validating end-to-end user workflows, and ensuring our products meet the highest standards before reaching customers.
What You’ll Do
Technical Leadership
- Mentor and coach QE engineers to elevate technical capability and testing best practices
- Serve as the technical point of contact for quality across cross-functional teams
Test Strategy & Planning
- Lead hands-on test planning, auditing, and execution
- Develop comprehensive test plans and strategies for new features and product releases
- Identify risk areas and prioritize testing efforts based on impact and complexity
- Define quality metrics, KPIs, and reporting dashboards to monitor product health
Automation & Infrastructure
- Evaluate and adopt tools and technologies to improve test automation, coverage, and efficiency
- Contribute to building and improving test frameworks and infrastructure
IoT & Platform Quality
- Develop testing strategies for IoT devices and associated mobile applications
- Validate end-to-end workflows across cameras, base stations, cloud services, and client applications
- Test streaming, recording, notification systems, and AI/ML-driven features such as object detection and smart alerts
- Ensure consistent quality across iOS, Android, and web platforms
Process & Collaboration
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to define acceptance criteria and release exit criteria
- Drive root cause analysis for production issues and implement preventative improvements
- Manage test cycles, defect triage, and release readiness sign-offs
- Contribute to planning, estimation, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Champion a strong culture of quality across the organization
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or Software Testing
- Proven experience leading test strategy and technical quality initiatives
- Strong experience with test planning, defect management, and release validation
- Experience testing mobile applications (iOS and Android) and client-server applications
- Familiarity with automation frameworks and modern test tools
- Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to identify root causes of complex issues
- Experience working inAgile development environments
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering and product teams
Will be a plus if you have:
- Experience withIoT devices or consumer electronics
- Understanding ofvideo streaming, networking, and cloud-based platforms
- Familiarity withAI/ML feature validation
- Experience withtest automation frameworks and CI/CD environments
- Leverage AI-powered testing and automation to enhance quality, accelerate delivery, and enable predictive defect detection.
Benefits
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Competitive remuneration.
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Health insurance.
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Life Insurance.
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Transportation allowance.
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Meal ticket.
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Private pension plan.
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Dynamic, multicultural and fun environment.
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Arcades on-site.
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You will be working at the world's leading provider of game services.
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Supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability.
About the company
Side is a global video game development and services provider, offering technical and creative solutions to many of the largest developers and studios around the world. Founded in 2009 and drawing on 30+ years' experience from our parent company in Japan, Side has since grown to become a global force with 20 studios in 14 countries across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia.
Our industry-leading services include game development, art production, audio production, quality assurance, localization, localization QA, player support, community management, and datasets.
Help us bring stories to the world! Join a global team of passionate gamers and contribute to delivering unforgettable game experiences.
Experience our side of life. For more information, visit www.side.inc