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CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Senior Tech QA Analyst to join our team working on Cyberpunk 2, the next mainline Cyberpunk 2077 game. In this role, you will be a senior individual contributor within Technical QA, helping translate the project QA strategy into effective technical testing approaches, quality assessments, and measurable outcomes.

You will take ownership of complex technical quality initiatives, support reliable milestone verification, maintain visibility on technical quality status and risks, and continuously improve QA workflows, tools, reporting, and technical testing practices within your areas of ownership.

You will collaborate closely with QA Managers, Production, Development, Tech, Shared Development Services, QA Experts, and cross functional teams to support technical integrity, engine and tools quality, performance, stability, gameplay consistency, and development pipeline reliability.

As a Senior Tech QA Analyst, you will be expected to manage your areas of responsibility with confidence and initiative, navigate ambiguous or evolving technical problems, influence quality practices across disciplines, and provide technical guidance and mentorship to other QA team members.

Responsibilities

Technical QA Ownership: Take ownership of complex technical QA initiatives, testing areas, or quality problems from initial assessment through validation, reporting, and resolution.
Strategic QA Execution: Translate the overarching Cyberpunk 2 QA strategy into practical technical testing approaches, coverage, measurable outcomes, and priorities within your areas of ownership.
Quality Execution & Delivery: Plan and execute technical testing and milestone verification, ensuring quality objectives are completed on time and meet expected technical quality standards.
Risk Based Test Strategy: Assess technical changes, systems, and features to identify risk, determine appropriate coverage, and focus testing effort where it provides the greatest quality value.
Data Driven Risk Management: Analyze technical quality metrics, KPIs, defect trends, crashes, performance data, and other signals to identify emerging risks and recommend practical mitigation.
Technical Investigation & Analysis: Lead or support complex technical investigations involving crashes, performance, stability, memory, engine behavior, tools, platforms, integrations, and development pipelines.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner directly with Development, Production, Tech, QA, and external QA partners to align on technical quality expectations, validation requirements, risks, and outcomes.
Quality Advocacy: Establish clear quality expectations within areas of expertise, challenge insufficient coverage or unacceptable risk, and help development partners make informed quality decisions.
Transparent Quality Reporting: Produce clear, data informed reporting on technical quality status, blockers, risks, testing outcomes, and readiness for relevant stakeholders.
Process & Tool Optimization: Identify and drive improvements to QA workflows, tools, testing frameworks, technical documentation, dashboards, metrics, and validation practices.
Technical Guidance & Mentorship: Share technical knowledge, review testing approaches, provide feedback, and mentor less experienced QA team members.
Cross Team Technical Support: Act as a senior QA partner for complex technical problems requiring coordination across multiple teams, disciplines, systems, or locations.
5+ years of professional QA experience within game development, with significant experience in Technical QA or comparable technical testing roles.
Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, defect management, bug workflows, test planning, risk based testing, test coverage, technical QA practices, and quality reporting.
Strong understanding of game development lifecycles and experience developing and executing testing strategies covering integration, stress, performance, stability, tools, engine, platform, and technical feature validation.
Experience developing and executing testing strategies for development tools, editors, content pipelines, build systems, and other technical development workflows.
Experience with game engines and editors, preferably Unreal Engine.
Experience using QA metrics, KPIs, defect trends, and technical data to identify quality risks and inform testing priorities.
Experience with performance analysis, profiling tools, crash analysis, memory investigations, platform specific testing, or console development environments.
Experience with Unreal Insights, engine profiling, crash debugging, or comparable technical investigation tools.
Demonstrated ability to drive investigations into complex technical issues and work with developers to identify reproduction conditions, impact, risk, and potential root causes.
Experience partnering with QA Engineering, Automation, Development, or Tech teams to identify automation and testing tooling opportunities, define testing requirements, and develop scalable technical validation solutions.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical quality status, risks, blockers, priorities, and recommendations.
Experience identifying and driving improvements to QA workflows, reporting models, dashboards, technical metrics, or test management processes.
Ability to mentor and provide technical guidance to other QA professionals.
Strong ownership, accountability, emotional maturity, and ability to operate effectively under pressure, ambiguity, and changing priorities.

Nice to Haves

Experience working on AAA titles.
Experience with programming or scripting, preferably C++, Python, or similar languages.
Experience with automation frameworks, automated test authorship, build verification, CI/CD pipelines, or technical validation workflows.
Experience designing or improving technical QA tooling, telemetry, dashboards, or automated reporting.
Experience partnering directly with engine, rendering, tools, platform, performance, or build/infrastructure engineering teams.
Interest in The Cyberpunk universe and passion for delivering high quality player experiences in large scale RPGs.

Office-First: working primarily from the Warsaw studio in a full time or hybrid mode. Relocation is required.

Health & Well-Being

Private medical healthcare — a selection of medical plans with dental care and unlimited rehabilitation to choose from, which are also accessible for your partner and relatives.
Life insurance — comprehensive pension and insurance plans to protect you and your loved ones.
Annual screenings for cancer prevention covered by the company.
Psychological and psychiatrist care — free mental health support and various well-being initiatives.
Sports card — gain access to a wide number of sporting and fitness facilities across the city.
Menstrual leave — employees who menstruate can take one extra day off when experiencing period pain.
RED Parents Network — support for working parents, including childcare benefits, and family-friendly events.
RED Summer Camp for Kids — a fun summer program for children aged 5–12, majoritively paid by the company.

Perks & Professional Growth

A welcome pack filled with goodies — to help you feel right at home once you join the team.
Trainings, lectures, and courses — workshops and trainings for each employee, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available. There’s always something to learn!
REDs have access to the cafeteria platform through which they can receive subscription benefits, additional medical packages or vouchers and codes to shops, cinemas, and public transport reimbursement.
Gifts for newborn rebels and regular chances to nab some cool swag!

Life in the Office

Dog-friendly office — dog owner? Bring your pooch with you and look after them while working! There’s always a furry friend or two to meet at the studio.
Social events — we host regular gatherings at the studio where we can all unwind, play games, and just have some fun together.
Healthy selections — canteens.
Truly international working environment — a chance to meet and work with a diverse selection of people from all around the world.
Sustainability is an ongoing commitment for us, and our campus has electric car charging points, green zones, and much more. Read all about it on our Beyond the Game Blog.
A designated space for your bicycle, as well as bicycle repair equipment and showers available whenever you need them.
An onsite, well-equipped gym with a climbing wall, daily Gym Assistant support, and yoga and boxing classes.
No dress-code — we like to keep it casual.

Estimated pay range for this position: 14 200 - 24 400 PLN gross monthly. Final offers are dependent on job-related factors like experience and qualifications.

Type of contract: Employment Contract ("Umowa o pracę").

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