About The Company
Our client is an Auckland based game studio focused on creating deep, engaging player experiences supported by complex systems and regular content updates.
The team values thoughtful collaboration, technical excellence, and practical decision making.
Quality is treated as a shared responsibility throughout development, not something checked at the finish line.
The Role
You will take ownership of quality across a live Unity game featuring dozens of characters, abilities, and interconnected systems.
You will lead the QA team, define the studio's quality strategy, and identify where automation, exploratory testing, and player focused testing will have the greatest impact.
Working closely with Engineering, Design, Production, and Leadership, you will help improve testability throughout development, maintain confidence in automated testing, and ensure results are reliable and useful.
You will own QA triage and support release decisions by helping teams understand risk, prioritise issues, and make informed decisions about patches, updates, and new content.
You will also improve QA tools, workflows, and reporting, manage the relationship with an outsourced QA partner, and coach teams to build stronger quality practices across the studio.
This is an onsite role in Auckland, NZ.




Visas are not supported for this role but relocation from within NZ and Australia are.
Key Skills & Traits
Essential
Strong experience working in QA within the games industry
Experience shipping and supporting live games
Proven experience leading QA teams and improving quality practices
Strong testing fundamentals across complex game systems
Ability to create and drive a transparent QA strategy
Sound judgement when balancing automation and human testing
Technical understanding of automation, testability, and development pipelines
Experience leading bug triage and supporting release decisions
Strong communication skills across Engineering, Design, Production, and Leadership
Ability to influence teams and build a culture where quality is everyone's responsibility
Existing NZ work rights.
Desirable
Experience working on mobile free to play games
Experience with Unity projects and development pipelines
Hands on experience with scripting, automation, or QA tooling
Experience supporting patches, hotfixes, and live service stability
Experience managing outsourced QA partners
Knowledge of console certification processes
Sound like your next move?
Apply via the Supaglu website or get in touch with Sam Marsh via email at ****** to have a confidential discussion.

📌 Qa Lead (Onsite In Auckland, Nz) (South Australia)
🏢 Supaglu
📍 South Australia