What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Test Director, Diablo IV | Irvine, CA position at Blizzard Entertainment?
Responsibilities include managing the end-to-end test teams, aligning with departmental and organizational strategies, and establishing standards for cross-functional teams. This role plays a crucial role in delivering exceptional gaming experiences for customers and internal partners by developing and managing strategies, goals, and key initiatives for test teams and products, ensuring alignment with department and organizational strategies across globally distributed teams. Additionally, they define and achieve annual quality goals, drive a strategic vision for quality assurance improvement, and lead efforts to hire, develop, and retain talent, including senior management. They coach and mentor individuals and teams to achieve collective excellence and influence cross-functional teams on strategy and execution.
This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
- Develop, manage and execute quality strategies, goals, and key initiatives for one or more test teams and products, ensuring alignment with department and company strategies across globally distributed teams.
- Establish and enforce quality metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and improve the effectiveness of the QA processes. Advocate for best practices in software development and enhance the customer experience.
- Conduct regular business reviews and provide quality-related services to senior leadership while refining and optimizing the role of quality assurance within the company.
- Develop and maintain information and visualizations to tell compelling stories to key stakeholders. Identify and report trends and insights to support QA in meeting its strategic objectives. Participate and lead meetings to provide updates, share information, drive change, and facilitate effective decision-making.
- Provide leadership, support and guidance to a team including senior management, ensuring their performance is managed effectively and fostering a productive, positive, collaborative work culture. Coach and mentor individuals and teams to achieve collective excellence and influence cross-functional teams on strategy and execution.
- Champion efforts that build synergy, trust, collaboration, and inclusivity within the organization. Own and manage relationships with key partners, resources, colleagues, and leaders ensuring transparency around critical decisions and trade-offs.
- Lead, partner, and collaborate with teams across the company and with global outsource teams on quality initiatives, driving quality projects with regional teams, partners and stakeholders, and QA teams to contribute to the long-term QA vision and foster proactive and engaging communication with stakeholders.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Experience
Knowledge & Skills
EXTRA POINTS
Your Platform
Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. ( a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ : MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industrys most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
Our World
Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush and Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!
Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered!
The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.
Rewards
We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including :
