Quality Assurance Lead – Interactive Ads

About the role

The Quality Assurance Lead – Interactive Ads is responsible for leading the quality assurance function for all interactive advertising deliverables, ensuring that every asset meets HPL's standards for both visual excellence and functional performance before client submission. This role serves as the final quality gate for Mobile Interactive Playables (MIPs), Standard Interactive Playables (SIPs), Playable Ads, and other interactive digital experiences. The QA Lead establishes quality standards, performs comprehensive quality reviews, drives continuous process improvements, and collaborates closely with designers, developers, project managers, and operations to deliver client-ready assets. As the QA function expands, this role will also provide guidance, coaching, and oversight to other QA team members while maintaining accountability for overall quality performance.

Key responsibilities

• Own the overall quality assurance process for all assigned interactive advertising projects and perform comprehensive reviews covering both visual quality and functional performance
• Serve as the final quality approval before client submission and ensure quality standards are consistently applied across all projects
• Review assets to ensure they meet creative and design standards by validating layout, composition, typography, color consistency, branding compliance, UI/UX consistency, asset placement, alignment, image quality, animation quality, and design consistency across screens
• Validate that all interactive assets function correctly by testing buttons, navigation, user interactions, gameplay mechanics, forms, inputs, audio, video playback, animations, transitions, end cards, CTAs, timers, game logic, tracking implementation, loading performance, and responsiveness across supported devices and browsers
• Identify, document, prioritize, and communicate visual and functional issues with clear, actionable feedback including screenshots, recordings, and reproduction steps
• Perform regression testing to verify fixes and ensure no new issues are introduced
• Develop and maintain QA standards, checklists, and testing procedures and recommend improvements to workflows that reduce rework and improve delivery quality
• Monitor quality trends, recurring defects, and root causes and work with Operations and Project Managers to strengthen quality processes
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive QA tasks and validation processes and collaborate with developers to implement and maintain automated testing workflows
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to QA team members, assist in onboarding and training new QA personnel, and conduct quality calibrations to ensure consistent review standards
• Partner with Designers, Developers, Team Leads, Project Managers, and Operations to resolve quality issues efficiently and participate in project reviews, quality discussions, and post-mortem analyses

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Multimedia Arts, Graphic Design, Game Development, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum of 3–5 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Game Testing, Interactive Advertising, Digital Production, or a related field
• Previous experience leading or mentoring a QA team is preferred
• Strong understanding of UI/UX, graphic design principles, and interactive advertising production
• Experience testing HTML5, web-based, or mobile interactive content
• Excellent analytical, documentation, communication, and leadership skills
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Experience developing or maintaining automated QA tests for HTML5 or web-based interactive applications