- Drive continuous improvement across QA practices, workflows and collaboration models — and bring the rest of the studio along for the ride
- Champion quality ownership across disciplines, reducing dependency on late discovery and reactive firefighting
- Improve operational visibility into quality risks, verification pressure and release readiness through better metrics, telemetry and reporting
- Identify systemic bottlenecks and recurring failure patterns, and do something about them
- Evaluate and modernize QA tooling, test infrastructure and verification workflows
- Build strong collaboration between embedded QA, operational QA functions and QA Partners
- Support, mentor and grow the people in your team — setting clear expectations, fostering psychological safety and encouraging continuous learning
- Own people management responsibilities including performance, goal-setting, career development and hiring
- You think at the organizational level, not just within the walls of QA
- You value observability and transparency over process for process's sake
- You're comfortable in complex, adaptive environments where the answer isn't always obvious
- You balance structure with the flexibility to iterate and improve
- You understand that sustainable quality systems have to work for the humans inside them
- You have a track record of improving how teams collaborate around quality, not just how QA teams operate
The Position
At Avalanche Studios Group, we are looking for a QA Manager to join our team and help shape how we think about quality — not just within QA, but across the entire studio.
This isn't a role about running a test department. It's about evolving how we build confidence in what we ship. You'll be responsible for moving our quality systems from reactive to proactive, improving production observability, and making quality a shared capability across Engineering, Production, Design and LiveOps. If you're someone who thinks systemically, values learning over blame, and gets energized by meaningful organizational change — we'd love to hear from you.
Please note that this role is based in either our Malmö or Stockholm office three days a week (Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays).
What You'll Do
Who You Are
Skills Required
- Drive continuous improvement across QA practices, workflows and collaboration models
- Champion quality ownership across Engineering, Production, Design and LiveOps to reduce reactive firefighting
- Improve operational visibility using metrics, telemetry and reporting to assess release readiness
- Evaluate and modernize QA tooling, test infrastructure and verification workflows
- Identify systemic bottlenecks and implement fixes for recurring failure patterns
- Manage people responsibilities including performance reviews, goal-setting, career development and hiring
- Support, mentor and grow a QA team while fostering psychological safety and continuous learning
- Work in a hybrid model with mandatory in-office days (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays) at the Malmö studio
What We Do
Avalanche Studios Group is a leading interactive entertainment company, offering a rich portfolio of games from its divisions Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction, including the Just Cause franchise, Rage 2, theHunter: Call of the Wild, and Generation Zero. Avalanche Studios Group is committed to being a truly inclusive and sustainable workplace that creates innovative games through the power of our people’s creativity. All of Avalanche Studios Group games are developed using the proprietary Apex engine, enabling vast open worlds with endless creative possibilities. Learn more at www.avalanchestudios.com/
