Quality Assurance Project Manager

About

Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe is a leading global publisher, developer and distributor of entertainment content for platforms including all major video game consoles and PC. Part of the Japanese Bandai Namco group, known for franchises such as PAC-MAN, GUNDAM, TEKKEN, ACE COMBAT, DARK SOULS, and ELDEN RING, as well as European led projects like LITTLE NIGHTMARES. The company has 15 international offices with operations in 50 countries and is headquartered in Lyon, France.

Responsibilities

• Manage quality control efforts on allocated titles including functionality and compliance testing activities.
• Create and follow-up test plans and validate test phases from alpha to post release.
• Own information flows between internal and external QA teams and company stakeholders.
• Create and improve testing processes to match game engine evolution and development teams' requests.
• Guarantee ownership, administration and communication of all QA related project data and associated risks.
• Own test schedules and test budgets.
• Create multi-discipline test plans within lead times and budget constraints and communicate them to external testing providers and stakeholders.
• Monitor test vendors' activities from start to finish on each project.
• Create, update, and communicate regular game status information and recommendations to project stakeholders.
• Collate reports and feedback from multi-discipline testing with several external testing teams.
• Report on overall project progress at each test phase.
• Organize bug report database and bug flows creation with all BNE QA regions.
• Evaluate and communicate fixing priority of specific bugs according to release constraints.
• Analyse and communicate risks/issues related to submissions of console games and internal approval of PC games.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in a QA role such as QA lead or supervisor.
• Bachelor or Master's degree in a related field including project management knowledge.
• Experience planning and driving QA processes through entire development cycles.
• Excellent understanding of video games testing methodology, tools, and hardware.
• Proven experience in process-driven environments and creating innovative testing procedures.
• Mastery of Microsoft Office (Excel, SharePoint) and JIRA (flow creation, dashboards, custom filters).
• Fluent English, written and oral.
• Team-oriented, collaborative, rigorous, conscientious, curious.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Adaptable to workload changes.
• Analytical with good communication skills.
• Proactive in learning and implementing new tools and methods.

Additional Information

• Job location: 15, rue Felix Mangini, 69009 LYON - FRANCE.
• Position is not eligible for full remote.
• Contract: full time (permanent).
• Remuneration: fixed and variable compensation.
• Benefits include flexible working hours, 2 teleworking days per week, lunch vouchers, profit sharing, reimbursement of public transportation costs, work council advantages (gift vouchers, discounts), and facilities such as gym room, gaming room, nap room, parking for car/bike/scooter, cafeteria, and coffee corners.
• Start date: ASAP.