2K is hiring an Associate Manager, LQA (LATAM) to oversee day-to-day coordination of LQA testing for one or more titles and to support development of LQA analysts and vendor teams. Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Type: Full-Time.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee and coordinate LQA testing on assigned titles or project tracks, ensuring alignment with localization goals, certification readiness, and global quality standards.
- Manage small teams of analysts and/or vendor groups; track performance and provide coaching and mentorship.
- Collaborate with localization producers, game designers, and developers on test planning, risk analysis and reporting.
- Define test requirements based on milestones, scope and risk assessments; implement and maintain LQA best practices (bug triage, coverage planning, checklists, terminology).
- Drive QA issue resolution, suggest process and tooling improvements, and participate in vendor selection and onboarding.
- Review test plans and scenarios; support training and onboarding of new or junior team members.
Requirements:
- 4–6+ years experience in localization quality assurance, with at least 1–2 years in a senior analyst or team lead role.
- Experience working with external QA vendors, distributed teams, or multilingual release pipelines.
- Familiarity with LQA tools, QA methodologies and content management/test systems (e.g., Jira, TestRail, Xray, CAT tools, TMS, CMS).
- Strong understanding of platform compliance, localization QA and internationalization testing requirements.
- Excellent communication and time-management skills; ability to mentor and provide constructive feedback.
- Fluent English required; Brazilian Portuguese is a strong asset. Degree in localization, linguistics, game production or related field preferred.
Why join: Be part of 2K’s Global Loc 2.0 initiative, support regional LQA operations for AAA titles, and grow into broader management roles while influencing localized player experiences.