QA Lead
As a QA Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving strategic quality initiatives throughout various groups and projects. You will partner closely with leaders in Development, Product, and Build to embed quality at scale, accelerate delivery confidence, and continuously raise QA maturity across the organisation.
This is an outstanding opportunity to lead with impact, build the direction of quality assurance, and contribute to the success of large-scale QA outcomes!
- Define and lead QA strategy across multiple teams and domains, aligned with product and engineering roadmaps.
- Establish and maintain a scalable quality operating model, including standards, guardrails, cadences, and governance.
- Lead cross-team initiatives to improve quality, velocity, collaboration, and predictability of releases.
- Represent QA in planning meetings, helping leadership make informed trade-offs based on risk and data.
- Build positive relationships with Engineering, Product, and Compose leadership to ensure quality is owned end-to-end.
- Develop scalable testing frameworks and strategies spanning API, UI, integration, and end-to-end layers.
- Champion full-stack quality practices to ensure seamless coverage from backend services to client experiences.
- Develop and carry out automation strategy and standards, including CI/CD quality integration.
- Evaluate, select, and implement new tools, methodologies, and automation approaches where they provide clear value.
- Lead root-cause analysis and quality retrospectives for high-impact issues, translating findings into systemic improvements.
- Implement risk-focused testing and deployment preparedness methods across teams, including entry/exit criteria, go/no-go, and rollback readiness.
- Mentor QA Team Leads and Senior QA Engineers, supporting career development and encouraging a culture of ownership and excellence.
- 7+ years of professional QA experience, including hands-on work in automation and/or test architecture (required).
- 3+ years leading QA teams or managing QA across multiple squads or projects (required).
- Direct people management experience is strongly preferred (preferred).
- Demonstrated success in leading QA results across various teams and areas with quantifiable effects on quality, assurance in delivery, and speed (required).
- Extensive knowledge in comprehensive testing across full-stack environments, including API, UI, integration/E2E, and CI/CD integration (required).
- Good ability to define and implement risk-based testing and release readiness for complex releases (required).
- Demonstrated leadership presence and ability to influence multi-functional collaborators at senior levels (required).
- Good communication skills, including clear status updates, risk narratives, and data-driven recommendations (required).
- Track record of building scalable processes and tooling without heavy bureaucracy (“lightweight governance”) (required).
- Experience in the gaming sector and/or live-service products (nice-to-have).
- Experience in QA transformation, organisational change, expanding quality methods, or establishing a QA function (nice-to-have).
- Understanding of business impact and return on investment of quality initiatives (nice-to-have).
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.
