Quality Assurance Lead

Overview

Quality Assurance Lead (Finance) — Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports to shopping, gaming, and news—through trusted products, content, and technology that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform that helps businesses amplify growth and build meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

Within Yahoo Games, our mission is to make games a natural extension of the daily Yahoo experience—easy to discover, fun to play, and rewarding to return to. We are reimagining Yahoo Games as a modern casual gaming platform powered by high-quality content, strong production discipline, and a deep focus on player experience.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and player-focused Quality Assurance Lead to help ensure the quality, balance, and performance of games and features across Yahoo Games. In this role, you will work closely with Engineering, Game Design, Product Management, and Visual Design to test new games, platform features, and live updates across desktop and mobile web.

This role goes beyond traditional functional QA. You will contribute qualitative feedback on gameplay, balance, and overall fun, while also ensuring technical quality, compatibility, and performance across browsers and devices. Depending on experience and interest, you may also contribute to content creation such as puzzle design, quiz authoring, or tuning live game content.

• Test & Validate: Execute testing for new games, features, and platform updates across desktop and mobile web environments.
• Documentation: Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases for games and game-related features.
• Collaboration: Work with internal and external teams to execute testing requirements.
• Cross-Platform Testing: Perform functional, regression, compatibility, and performance testing across various browsers and devices.
• Qualitative Feedback: Provide input on gameplay, balance, difficulty, pacing, and the overall player experience.
• Bug Tracking: Identify, document, and track bugs clearly and consistently, working closely with Engineering and external partners to drive resolution.
• Gameplay Support: Collaborate with Game Design and Product teams to support gameplay tuning, balancing, and iteration.
• Review Ownership: Lead playtests and reviews to ensure games meet quality, usability, and fun standards.
• Live Operations: Support live ops by validating updates, content changes, and bug fixes post-launch.
• Quality Advocacy: Work with internal teams and external developers to ensure quality standards are met before release.
• Creative Contribution: Contribute to content creation where appropriate, such as puzzle design, quiz authoring, or configuration updates.
• Player Perspective: Advocate for the player experience while maintaining strong technical quality and platform standards.
• Feedback Management: Review, manage, and help prioritize player feedback.

• 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance for games or interactive products.
• Web Testing
  
  Experience:
  
  Hands-on experience testing desktop and mobile web applications, including cross-browser compatibility.
• Technical Aptitude: A strong technical foundation; a Computer Science background or equivalent experience is preferred.
• Development Knowledge: Experience working closely with engineers and an understanding of development workflows.
• Strong Communication: Ability to write clear, detailed test plans, bug reports, and reproduction steps.
• Analytical Mindset: Experience testing games from both a technical and player-experience perspective.
• Passion for Games: An instinct for what makes gameplay feel fun, fair, and engaging.
• Team Player: Strong communication and collaboration skills in…