We’re a fast-moving team working at the intersection of technology, creativity, and automotive innovation. Our clients trust us to deliver world-class digital experiences and high-quality visualisation solutions that bring their products to life. We’re currently looking for an experienced QA Lead to lead and develop our Quality Assurance function.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys improving processes, solving complex quality challenges and supporting a team to deliver exceptional work. You will manage the end-to-end QA workflow across Rotor projects, work closely with technical and production teams, and help shape the standards, tools and automation practices that support high-quality delivery.

What are we looking for in a QA Lead?

- As our QA Lead, you will oversee QA activities across a range of Rotor projects and deliverables, including vehicle configurators, web applications and digital assets.
- You will lead and mentor a small QA team, define testing approaches and quality standards, translate client specifications into clear QA requirements, and work with teams across the business to manage quality, defects and release readiness.
- You will bring a practical, detail-oriented approach to testing, as well as the confidence to improve processes, identify automation opportunities and manage competing priorities across multiple projects.

You’ll be working on a variety of tasks, including:

- Leading the end-to-end QA workflow across Rotor projects and deliverables.
- Managing, mentoring and developing a small QA team, including training, cross-training and performance reviews.
- Defining QA scope, testing approaches, quality benchmarks, entry and exit criteria, and best-practice processes.




- Translating client specification documents into explicit development and QA requirements.
- Conducting visual audits of client specifications and preparing visual-audit documentation outlining required changes across Rotor assets and applications.
- Ensuring visual-audit documentation is completed and shared with Client Services and internal teams within five business days of receiving client specifications.
- Ensuring MAT assets, post-production deliverables, and Digital vehicles and accessories meet client specifications.
- Performing hands-on functional, compatibility, regression and exploratory testing across Rotor applications and software platforms.
- Coordinating regression testing for released configurator builds, and web applications before deployment.
- Working with department leads to define defect lifecycles and Jira workflows across projects.
- Monitoring defect status and working closely with Development, Production and Project Management teams to drive issues through to resolution.
- Creating and maintaining reusable QA documentation, templates, processes and quality standards.
- Identifying and implementing improvements to QA workflows, release processes and delivery practices.
- Identifying suitable automation opportunities and building, maintaining and improving automated test scripts.




- Completing fortnightly resource forecasting and managing QA effort and budgets across projects.

You will have:

- Previous experience in a QA Lead, Senior QA, Test Lead or similar quality assurance role.
- Experience developing QA processes, standards, test plans and reusable documentation.
- Strong experience using Jira and managing defect workflows.
- A good understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Experience with test automation and maintaining automated test scripts.
- Excellent attention to detail and a genuine passion for quality.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and abstract-thinking skills.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, resources and budgets effectively.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with a collaborative approach.
- Familiarity with Perforce or other source-control and asset-management tools.
- Familiarity with Python, C++, Unreal Engine is highly regarded.

What’s in it for you?

- This unique role will enable you to join a world-class digital production company with a vibrant culture, working alongside global automotive clients and some of the industry’s leading digital specialists.
- Flexible working arrangements with the ability to work from home part of the week.
- Team lunches, dinners and company-wide events.
- Exposure to cutting-edge automotive visualisation and digital technologies.
- A supportive environment where you’re encouraged to lead, improve and make a meaningful contribution.
- Frequent Magic The Gathering Commander format games if you are into that
- Paid parental leave and office snacks

Rotor Studios is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

📌 Quality Assurance Lead (Sydney)
🏢 Rotor Studios
📍 Sydney