QA Lead

Join Aristocrat as a QA Lead and help bring happiness to life through the power of play! At Aristocrat, we take pride in delivering outstanding gaming experiences and maintaining top industry standards. In this role, you will be key to improving our quality assurance processes, driving high quality, and ensuring flawless launches of our innovative gaming platforms. This position offers an outstanding chance to develop the future of our QA practices and make a strong impact within a dynamic and ambitious team.

• Lead and manage a growing QA team, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
• Establish clear ownership within the team, focusing on both manual and automation leads.
• Build a strong, accountable, and results-focused team culture.
• Define and implement test strategies, test plans, and ensure coverage alignment.
• Drive risk-based testing and prioritization based on business impact.
• Own and drive the automation strategy, with a strong focus on frontend (Playwright) and backend validation.
• Improve automation coverage, reliability, and maintainability, ensuring integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and track QA benchmarks, providing clear and actionable reporting including root cause analysis and risk areas.
• Identify gaps in QA and development processes and drive proactive improvements.
• Work closely with developers, product managers, and Release Manager to ensure alignment on quality goals.
• Promote quality ownership across teams, providing clear quality status and risk insight to collaborators.

• Demonstrated background as a QA Manager or Senior QA Lead.
• Strong technical background, preferably with development experience.
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks.
• Experience with web, backend/microservices, and real-time systems.
• Experience defining important metrics and using data for decisions.
• Ownership approach, can-do attitude, and strong prioritization skills.
• Proactive, analytical, and a great teammate with a constructive outlook.
• Nice to have: Experience in gaming or real-time platforms, CI/CD experience, and system architecture understanding.

• Robust benefits package
• Global career opportunities