Total 3 lead buyer job vacancies in Quality Assurance / Control category in PH-Quezon City-Eastwood City Cyber Park

As one of our LQA Test Lead you will be leading our LQA team.  You will report directly to a site head, work with global project managers and are a vital point of contact on all LQA assigned insourced or outsourced projects. 

You will be the primary driver in successfully managing and delivering projects on time and be accountable for the to the end-to-end quality of projects.  You will have day-to-day responsibility for managing the project teams and will work on a variety of global projects for many of our high-profile clients, whilst working in collaboration with our other global Studios. 

What you’ll be doing

• Managing LQA Team across and assigned projects across many platforms (PC, Console, and Mobile) to achieve high quality results.
• Working directly with Project Managers on planning and ensuring optimal resource allocations across projects.
• Daily management of allocated project resources and continually scrutinising tester's day-to-day performance.
• Coordinating project management activities, resources, equipment into manageable daily team actions and setting timeframes and milestones.
• Daily review of project priorities, risks, and severities with the Project Manager.
• Engaging with LQA testing teams in a tactful, assertive, and diplomatic manner to proactively resolve issues early in projects.
• Actively participate in daily stand-up meetings and project planning to relay progress and/or issues to the QA Project Manager.
• Team mentoring and guidance to ensure high quality standards throughout including developing and reporting on key quality metrics and KPIs.
• Working closely with LQA Leads on team structure, headcount resource requirements, performance and developing a training process for new and existing team members.

• Native in local language, fluency in English, particularly reporting, reading & writing.
• Experience within Localization, Quality Assurance or media entertainment (preferably within the gaming industry, but not essential).
• Experience running teams in either localization, media entertainment, game development or software QA, with proven leadership experience.
• Highly creative, proactive, enthusiastic, conscientious, and solution oriented.
• Exceptional team management and mentoring skills.
• Ability to mentor, guide and influence other members of the team to improve standards and an ability to lead by example
• Attention to detail with an inquisitive mindset, not afraid to ask difficult questions where required
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise tasks based on multiple sources of information, with excellent time management skills
• Problem solver with a “can-do” attitude, to ensure that the QA team runs in an efficient way
• Aptitude for gaining understanding in new technologies and processes quickly
• Experience with bug databases administration (such as Jira)
• Knowledge of the current generation of games consoles and PCs, and the latest mobile platforms (preferred).
• Understanding of QA and Submission best practices for Console and Mobile is a plus
• An interest in, and understanding of, the video game industry would be advantageous.

What we expect of you, day to day: 

• Be an escalation point for challenging transactions, HVTs (High Value Transactions), or clients/CSM (Customer Success Manager) requests 

• Ensure the effective and efficient week-to-week operations of the TSS team - and that daily and weekly targets are met 

• Cleary communicate changes to process, procedure and client specific updates with the team 

• Deliver the monthly team QA and review sessions, focused on transaction reviews and HVTs 

• Support the TSS Team Manager in identifying insights and actions from Weekly and Monthly MI (Management Information) reporting 

• Support the TSS Team Manager with internal (e.g. Customer team) and external (e.g. client) meetings where needed - taking the lead where relevant 

• Identify and diagnose people, process, or system problems → implement a short-term fix → plan out any long-term solution, working with other stakeholders where needed 

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Your responsibilities will be, but not limited to:

• Gather the timing of local statutory audits for all the legal entities under QIMA Partners Limited, and ensure the lists are updated on a regular basis.
• Design and formulate the timeline of the local statutory audits in alignment with Group Annual Audit.
• Lead the process for the statutory audit by timely coordinating with the legal entities and ensuring all legal entities under QIMA Partners Limited are completed and compiled.
• Lead the management of Group Audit from the group perspective and collaboratively work with the businesses and process owners to ensure that the requirements are gathered and submitted on time.
• Liaise with External Auditor to ensure that the Group Audit status is updated correctly and communicated to the relevant recipients.
• Liaise with Local and 3rd Party Advisors handling the Local, Statutory and Tax compliance for entities without local finance in the country to ensure that compliance requirements are prepared and submitted on time.
• Review, manage and recommend if the 3rd party engagement contracts be continued, amended and/or terminated based on the relationship with the Group and their ability to deliver the scope of work as per the contracts.
• Actively seek standardization and automation, apply and implement best practices for managing Group Audit and Local, Statutory and Tax compliance and deploy innovative technology where possible to enhance and continuously improve the design and operating effectiveness of the controls, documentation, assessments and review procedures.
• Develop and conduct adequate training and prepare related information material on the Group Audit and Local, Statutory and Tax compliance for business continuity purposes.
• Keep the record of the 3rd party’s engagement fees, Penalties and Late Charges, and the Payment made for all the compliance requirements which can be used to assess trends of payments and penalties as well as the professional fees.
• Other tasks assigned by the Immediate Supervisor.