Description
Riot Games Sydney is looking for a Principal Quality Engineer to help transform how we approach quality across teams. Sydney partners with Riot teams globally and contributes across games and technology spaces including VALORANT, League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and broader R&D and tech initiatives. At Riot, quality is more than defect discovery. It is a set of values, practices, and behaviors that shape how we build, decide, and deliver for players. As a Principal Quality Engineer , you will own the quality approach for our teams or product spaces and operate as a senior craft leader with dev studio and business-unit level influence. This role will work closely with and adjacent to the Senior Leadership Team in Sydney, helping shape strategic quality direction across the organisation. You will help teams shift quality left through stronger test automation, better tooling, clearer standards, and practical quality strategies that improve both developer experience and player experience. You will also help teams maintain confidence in quality in a world of AI-assisted development, where new tooling and workflows are changing how software is designed, implemented, and validated. This is a full-time role, based in Sydney, Australia. Responsibilities: - Own the quality approach for teams or product areas and ensure quality activities are considered across every stage of the software development lifecycle. - Lead initiatives that shift quality left through automation, tooling, and process improvements that help engineers catch issues earlier and ship with more confidence. - Identify, create, and evolve test frameworks and automation strategies that improve speed, coverage, sustainability, and reliability release over release. - Help define and implement test approaches as part of an overall quality and test strategy. - Help shape our approach to quality in an evolving AI landscape, including how teams use AI-assisted workflows responsibly and effectively while maintaining confidence in what we ship. - Use metrics and reporting to surface quality risks, trends, and opportunities, then turn those insights into action with product and discipline leaders. - Provide craft leadership and coaching for QA and partner disciplines, strengthening test design, planning, execution, and quality decision-making. - Help define, adapt, and socialise quality standards and practices that are usable across multiple teams and scalable at product or business-unit level. - Partner with engineering, delivery, design, creative, and production leaders to diagnose product and project quality risks and recommend targeted improvements. - Contribute to growing the quality craft through hiring, mentorship, and cross-team leadership. - Work in partnership with Game and Central teams to drive strategic initiatives. Required Qualifications: - 8+ years of software quality assurance or quality engineering experience, with multiple proven product successes. - Experience defining and implementing test approaches as part of an overall test strategy. - Experience coaching QA team members on test design, planning, and execution. - Experience driving continuous improvement processes within a team or organization. - Experience leading or maturing automated testing frameworks, tools, or processes that improve sustainable development. - Experience using quality metrics, telemetry, or reporting to assess quality health and influence decisions. - Experience workin