Wargaming

Performance QA Team Lead (World of Warships, PC)

Wargaming
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2 months ago
Belgrade, SerbiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Performance QA team through task planning, coordination, mentoring, and technical guidance.
  • Define and maintain performance-testing strategy, coverage, baselines, thresholds, and regression criteria.
  • Investigate performance regressions, identify bottlenecks, and drive root-cause analysis across client, backend, and system-level components.
  • Drive performance testing and automation across game client, backend services, network interactions, and system-level scenarios.
  • Create and maintain QA performance-test infrastructure, tools, and frameworks.
  • Maintain documentation for performance tests, tools, and testing processes.
  • Collaborate with development and other teams to analyze performance results and drive improvements.
  • Integrate and maintain performance testing within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Participate in architectural and technical design reviews from a QA perspective.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience in Performance QA, Performance Engineering, or related areas.
  • Experience leading QA teams or providing technical leadership.
  • Working experience with Python.
  • Strong understanding of performance-engineering principles and the ability to investigate issues across complex systems.
  • Experience in client performance, backend/load performance, distributed systems, or system-level performance analysis.
  • Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher English proficiency.
  • Experience in game development or PC-game performance testing is advantageous.
  • Knowledge of PC architecture and CPU, GPU, memory, and disk I/O interactions is advantageous.
  • Experience with game-client profiling, GPU profiling tools, or high-load and distributed backend systems is advantageous.
  • Experience evaluating, adopting, or integrating AI-assisted tools for team workflows, test development, and reporting is advantageous.

Benefits

  • The position is available in the Belgrade or Nicosia office.
  • Onsite work is required during the probation period; after probation, the role may be onsite or hybrid with 3 days per week in the office.
  • Relocation and immigration support are available.
  • Additional vacation days of up to 5 days above the statutory minimum are available in Belgrade, along with additional paid time off including Personal Days, Birthday Leave, Marriage Leave, and Compassionate Leave.
  • Benefits include sick-leave compensation, maternity-leave benefits, premium private health insurance, career development and education opportunities, English clubs, language-learning tools, and a mental well-being program.
  • Additional benefits include a commuting allowance, company events, FitPass membership, employee discounts, a personal gaming account, office refreshments, a subsidized onsite canteen, seniority awards, and a referral program.

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About Wargaming

1,001-5,000 employees

Wargaming is a privately held video game developer and publisher known for free-to-play multiplayer titles such as World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Tanks Blitz. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus, it runs a games-as-a-service model across PC, console, and mobile with revenue from in-game purchases. The company serves a global player base and operates multiple studios and publishing offices worldwide.

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