P3P3 — Mid-Level Professional
Proficient – Senior QA Tester
Lead testing efforts for major game components.
What this level means
Fully competent professional; works independently on standard projects
- Scope
- Features or a sub-system end-to-end
- Autonomy
- Works independently on standard work; reviewed on the non-standard
- Complexity
- Diverse problems; adapts existing approaches
- Impact
- Project / team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Owns implementation decisions for own scope
- Leadership
- Mentors juniors informally
- Typical experience
- 3–5 yrs
What you'd do
- Develop comprehensive test strategies.
- Coordinate regression cycles.
- Lead testing efforts
- Coordinate regression
- Mentor junior testers
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Test strategy development
- Regression coordination
- Mentorship
- Adaptability
- Test strategy
- Regression testing
- Mentorship techniques
- Change management
- Problem-solving
- Mentorship
- Adaptability to changing requirements
What good looks like
- 3–5 years, with exposure to complex projects
Common titles
Quality Assurance IIIQuality Assurance 3Mid-Level Quality AssuranceProficient – Senior QA Tester
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 15-0000 — Computer & Mathematical Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.