Improbable is hiring a

Web3 Lead QA Engineer

Our metaverse group helps our partners realise their metaverse ambitions. The team’s expertise encompasses creative (concept and design), production (art and content), engineering (game development and Web3) and operations (dev and live).

At Improbable, you’ll collaborate with some of the best in the industry. Together, you’ll create unique, tailored experiences that stretch the boundaries of what’s possible in digital spaces and virtual worlds – and help define what the metaverse can be.

The Lead QA Engineer will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our Metaverse experience products through the development and implementation of robust QA & testing strategies. The successful candidate will have a strong technical background, management experience, exceptional leadership abilities, and a passion for delivering high-quality solutions.

Your Opportunity:

• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise (CI/CD, TDD, BDD, ATTD, QA & Engineering best practices) to drive excellence in testing practices.
• Execute functional correctness for ambiguous, complex and cross functional projects that have multiple layers of dependencies and undefined scope. Own quality strategy of the whole product.
• Owns quality strategy of large projects that span across multiple groups in the department or company Successfully led the quality strategy for complex, business-critical projects.
• Coordinates test providers (internal and/or external), able to set KPI's and monitor their performance and value added.
• Coordinates testing with customers, identifying particular risks that should be covered and mitigating quality issues
• Works with customers and/or cross-org stakeholders to identify their quality needs, concerns and risks, and work on mitigating these concerns and risks to ensure successful delivery.
• Supports recruitment and development efforts, attracting and retaining diverse talent to meet the needs of the team.
• Reinforces collaboration across teams for long term investments and gains by initiating/leading crucial conversations and resolutions. Anticipates intra-org team conflicts and mitigates them.

Why your made for this:

• Lead, collaborate multiple complex tactical streams and brings clarity and removing ambiguities and ensuring the solutions aligns to org strategies and business goals
• Build relationships and work effectively across a diverse group of people to accomplish mutual goals.
• Be responsible for developing and communicating team goals, with a focus on quality and reliability.
• Hold the team and leaders accountable to deliver aligned priorities, taking action when necessary.
• Demonstrate exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire the QA team to achieve outstanding results.
• Assess changing business priorities and align cross-functional teams to focus on the most important work.
• Independently lead cross functional projects to ensure timely delivery with desired quality expectations. 
• Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively work within cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Display a proactive and self-driven attitude, taking ownership of assigned tasks and driving them to completion

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This role is available as remote, hybrid or in-office. We have a great office space in Spitalfields in London but are equally happy if you'd prefer to work from home some, or all of the time. We are 'Flexa' certified, meaning our entire employee experience is anchored around flexibility and autonomy.

While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply. 

Improbable is determined to foster an environment where people can do their best work and feel like they belong. We believe a healthy culture, strong values and contribution from a diverse range of individuals will help us to achieve success.

We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

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