Project Manager, Localization QA
Pole To Win International, Spain

LQA Project Manager

Video Games

Remote Working in Spain

As one of our LQA Project Managers, you will be joining the global QA Leadership Team and be part of the Studio QA management team. You will work closely with the LQA Manager and Assistant Manager and act as the initial point of contact on all QA assigned insourced or outsourced projects.

You will be the primary owner of multiple QA projects and be accountable for the end-to-end quality of those entire projects (scoping, strategy, performance management, and the execution of those plans). Acting as the main communication conduit to all internal teams in terms of QA activities across global geographical locations.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive job profile and it may be changed and/or adapted. An exact job profile is available on request.

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What you’ll be doing

• Collaborating and assisting in creating the overall Quality Plan; help in defining a project budget forecasting a staffing plan and an overall test strategy that will effectively execute and deliver multiple global localization projects simultaneously.
• Overseeing all assigned projects with full management of all project resources and staffing to ensure every project is delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest level of accuracy and quality standards.
• Delegation of critical tasks to Project Coordinators whilst continuously looking for improvements in all areas of how projects are scoped, prepared, managed, and delivered.
• Management of Project Coordinators to ensure superior quality standards are met for each project and perform cost tracking, billing, and reporting.
• Identifying and analyzing project-related problems and devising creative solutions to eradicate issues that may impact project deadlines or quality.
• Performing administrative duties including reporting of project performance, staffing, recruitment, training, feedback, quality, and other critical key metrics to the QA Assistant Manager.
• Manage the creation and maintenance of documentation to track project deliverables, budget, and quality, including project schedules, style guides, glossaries, localization testing plans, bug metrics, scopes amp; costs
• Liaising with internal departments and other global studios to ensure consistency, coherence, and the allocation of resources to meet diverse project demands and deadlines.
• Assisting the global sales team in delivering estimated project quotations.
• Other activities/duties as required by the role.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

• Native-level fluency in English, particularly reporting, reading amp; writing.
• Extensive experience within a Quality Assurance role (preferably as a Project Lead, Project Coordinator, QA Lead, or similar), and must be from the Video Game Industry.
• Able to deliver presentations, town hall meetings, and other motivational talks to multiple project teams.
• Previous experience of scoping, planning, managing, and executing multiple fast-paced projects, including experience of people amp; project management with a clear focus on providing quality outcomes every time.
• Experience in maintaining Localization quality in high volume, multi-project, and fast-paced LiveOps schedules.
• Self-motivated with a proactive attitude and the ability to work productively and collaboratively within a multilingual global team (may include remote management of projects).
• Ability to organize and plan staffing requirements on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Excellent attention to detail with good analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to set up and navigating through JIRA, Google Docs, Google Sheets/Excel, and localization tools.
• Knowledge of the current generation of game consoles and PCs, and the latest mobile platforms.
• Ability and willingness to work working patters in different time zones.
• An interest in, experience within, and understanding of, the video game industry.

Benefits

What we offer

• You will be working for the pre-eminent global provider of specialist services to the games industry and provided with full training and the opportunity to work on some of the biggest games titles in the world.
• You will be working with many of PTWs most important clients and all of the biggest names in the industry.
• You will be directly joining at a mid-senior managerial level and be directly reporting to stakeholders and clients.
• You will be working in state-of-the-art facilities at the cutting edge of video game localization.
• Comp

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