Shift Manager

Sr. Shift Manager

What's In It For You?

• Work alongside fellow gamers who are passionate about what they do!
• Working with a Forbes-listed World-Leader in, "Top employer of Women" and "Top employer for Diversity"
• Opportunity to work with a fast-growing global leader in Games services that promotes from within
• The opportunity to work within world-leading companies, opening the door to limitless opportunities within them

Has your character ever fallen into textures?

Do you find it irritating when every car is driven the same regardless of the rear/front drive used, or the surface on which you are driving?

Do you want to improve and influence games with us? Test them before release!

You can check out the titles that none of your friends have ever played before - from Indies to full-fledged AAA games from well-known publishers.

Are you ready to be part of our journey? Lionbridge Games is looking for avid gamers and experienced testers.

What You Will Do:

• Provide project leadership, vision, and clear direction to a team of Games Test Associates
• Track all aspects of the project - scope, schedule, effort, staff, SCM, risks, issues etc. Identify corrective and preventive actions if the project performance deviates from the plan. Re-plan the project accordingly
• Monitor and evaluate project performance to established goals and balance the project team focus on strategic and tactical business objectives
• Shift priorities, change style, and respond with new approaches as required by changing demands and/or conditions
• Manage and address project issues and risks
• Ensure awareness of test processes in team, ensure assignment of SQA to project and plan and implement quality activities
• Participate in improving and defining new testing processes, solutions, and offerings
• Define governance levels and issue escalation path
• Prepare and implement Training Plans and Career Plans for the team
• Mentor at least senior leads or junior managers and have a succession plan in place
• Manage expenses/billing for the project (approval of Timesheets, leave records, any travel expenses, etc.)

To Be Successful You Will Have:

• *** Candidates should be aware that Lionbridge Games maintains a policy requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated. *** (Please see below for complete vaccination policy statement)
• Passion for video games
• At least 5 years of work experience and strong competences in gaming or technology environment
• Good command of test tracking and support tools, and MS Office
• Demonstrated capability in writing detailed area test plan documents, executing test strategies, and performing exploratory testing
• Experience testing in an Agile context
• Working knowledge of Atlassian tool suite e.g. JIRA, Confluence
• Preferred higher education in technology
• Willingness to travel

Lionbridge enables more than 800 world-leading brands to increase international market share, speed adoption of products and effectively engage their customers in local markets worldwide. Using our innovative cloud technology platforms and our global crowd of more than 100,000 professional cloud workers, we provide translation, digital marketing, global content management and application testing solutions that ensure global brand consistency, local relevancy and technical usability across all touch points of the customer lifecycle. Based in Waltham, MA, Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 28 countries.

*** Candidates should be aware that Lionbridge maintains a policy requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated. Newly hired employees must be vaccinated by their start date, unless living or working in a state that prohibits vaccine mandates and the position is not associated with a Federal contract. Lionbridge is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated where it is not an undue hardship to the Company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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