Lead QA Tester

Ironwood Studios
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Posted
July 9, 2026
Full Time
Redmond, WA
On-site
$80,000-$100,000 USD

Ironwood Studios is a Seattle-based AA game studio that has shipped our first successful title, Pacific Drive, and we’re looking for an experienced Lead Quality Assurance Tester to lead our internal QA team on our exciting and unannounced next project.

As the Lead QA Tester on the team, you will be responsible for managing the QA team and help shape and quality assurance for Ironwood as a studio. You will also establish, iterate on, and improve testing documentation and processes.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Manage the QA Team and mentor junior QA team members
  • Lead team triage meetings
  • Represent the QA discipline on a leadership level, providing timely and accurate updates related to game quality and escalate critical issues as needed
  • Identify and communicate when additional staffing resources are needed to fulfill testing requirements
  • Plan, create, document, and implement effective test plans for projects
  • Collaborate with production to implement and document procedures for bug ticket creation, tracking, and verifying fixes

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 5+ years of experience as a QA tester or QA Lead
  • At least one shipped title as a QA lead OR comparable experience
  • Thoroughly familiar with best QA testing practices including documentation and be capable of contributing if needed
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience writing test plans and implementing testing procedures
  • Comfortable testing on multiple platforms
  • Experience with bug/task tracking and test planning 3rd party software 

 

PREFERENCES:

  • Comfortable in small independent development team settings (less than 25)
  • Familiarity with Jira and Confluence
  • Experience with console submission and certification processes
  • Familiarity working with external testing teams, external playtests, and user research testing
  • Has experienced a full development cycle of production (pre production to post launch support)

 

WHAT WE ARE OFFERING:

  • Job Type: Full Time Salary
  • Medical/Dental/Disability/Retirement Benefits
  • Revenue-sharing bonus structure
  • Paid sick and vacation time as well as paid holidays and studio week-long breaks
  • Opportunity to join a studio shortly after their first successful launch
  • Onsite in Redmond, WA (relocation aid is available if desired)
  • Pay Range: $80,000-$100,000 USD

 

CONTACT:

If you meet most or all of the requirements and Ironwood Studios sounds like a place you’d like to join, let us know! Please send your resume (cover letter not required) using the following subject line: “Job Rec - Lead QA Tester”.

About
Ironwood Studios

Ironwood Studios is a team full of people with a variety of backgrounds, beliefs, and experience from across the industry. Based in Seattle, WA (with some folks remote), we’re proud to be a studio that so many talented and wonderful individuals call home.

Since the start of the studio in late 2019, we’ve put a huge emphasis on the way we work. As a studio our goal from day one has been making games in a sustainable and healthy way for the people on the team. For our projects, we’ve invested heavily into tools and systems that let us build games bigger and faster. Creatively, we are driven forward with a passion for surreal settings and compelling gameplay. We believe the best stories are ones where the player's experiences and actions take a front seat in helping to tell them.

We’ve been hard at work on our debut title Pacific Drive, which launched on Steam, EGS, and PlayStation 5 on February 22nd 2024. From every part of Ironwood - Design, Production, Narrative, Engineering, Art, Audio and QA - We’re all happy to have you along for the journey and can’t wait for you to see more.

Pacific Drive is a first-person driving survival game with your car as your only companion. Navigate a surreal reimagining of the Pacific Northwest, and face supernatural dangers as you venture into the Olympic Exclusion Zone.

Each excursion into the wilderness brings unique and strange challenges as you restore and upgrade your car from an abandoned garage that acts as your home base. Gather precious resources and investigate what’s been left behind in the Zone; unravel a long-forgotten mystery while learning exactly what it takes to survive in this unpredictable, hostile environment.

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