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Barcelona, Ct, Es

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

- I was the lead of the website Front// Backend and Tutorial Teams.- I created and prioritized new features and specified requirements in Jira, clarified questions on refinements, worked very closely with UXUI team to define and validate new features.- I tested and validated new features, provided feedback to improve UX, reported bugs on Desktop and mobile.- I implemented the Jira workflows for the Web, UX and Tutorial teams and synced the boards for improved dependency visibility.- I conjointly created a global priority list to emerge cross team dependencies that helped to reduce task switching and waste.- I helped the Scrum Master to improve agile practices (I proposed to bring back refinements to increase workload certainty per iteration and more accurate estimations, which the team gladly embraced).- As a former QA Manager, I provided feedback to improve the QA workflow efficiency.- I managed the tutorial team for new registered users’ onboarding, defining the steps and funnel KPIs with the Analytics team.

Lleida, Catalonia, Spain

- I led the production of Tinies, radically changing the initial game design -which has been kept until this day- so the game could compete in the MOBA space. I reported weakest spots and gaps of the original design and presented a solid, realistically scoped, engaging and marketable proposal.- I updated the stakeholders, investors and community of the new game updates.- I held agile syncs with Game Designer, Lead Dev, Lead Artist, Community, QA to assess production progress. I helped the team to unblock, reduce uncertainty and waste while avoiding micromanaging. - I set up the project management tools for the whole company.- I set up the agile framework and processes. I held Dailies, Refinements, Plannings, MiniRetros, Sprints.- With the help of the team I set up a realistic roadmap, tracked deviations and hired new team members, fostering team ownership.- I supported preemptive actions to reduce future company costs, i.e. authoritative server spike.- Acting as stakeholder for the quality, UX best practices and engagement during pre, alpha and beta. - I worked with the Game Designers to define the core loop, progression systems, new characters, maps, abilities, balancing, metagame... I translated the ideas into actionable items.- I helped on setting up internal QA playtest sessions.- I assisted a third party team to refine their game design proposal, I reported weakest spots and gaps and guided them to present a solid, realistically scoped, engaging and marketable proposal. For this same game team, I held a few Product Discovery sessions based on the Divergence & Convergence processes used at Google. I conducted sessions to define the USP and MVP.- I helped the community managers to prioritize issues with our users, evangelizing on transparency and respect in communication.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

I led the Project Management for various client projects: Hipra Vaccination Bluetooth Web & mobile app, Worker registration system device app, Labs data stream gathering and storage. - I assisted the team on improving visibility and communication with the client. I conducted estimations, dailies,, retros. reviews, Jira workflow setup.- I negotiated agreements with the client on iteration scope, capacity, prioritization. I removed blockers that could jeopardize the product delivery.

Barcelona Area, Spain

I assisted two teams on agile activities like Dailies,Sprint Plannings, Reviews, Retros. Liaising among Team, PO, BOs (KPIs, Prioritization, Discovery). I held Design Thinking, KPI definition and MVP sessions.

Barcelona, Cataluña, España

- Associate Producer In charge of the Art, Music & Localization Outsourcing (Contracts, Budget control with self-made automated scripted sheet.). - Scrum Master for all agile processes (Dailies, Plannings, stories breakdown, Retros, Reviews, Retrospectives, JIRA admin). Evangelizing on agile best practices: I lead the adoption of CI-CD to improve the QA workflow I held estimatIon, stories breakdown, Scrum of Scrums... - I assisted the newly formed LiveOps team by implementing Kanban.

Barcelona

Leading the QA for various internal studios in London and Barcelona.

Barcelona

Barcelona

I performed exploratory & regression testing of Candy Crush, Pepper Panic, Papa Pear, Pet Rescue, Diamond Digger… I co-defined test suites and plans for the above games. I managed career & development goals for ten QA Analysts. I temporarily led the Quick Regression Team for all King games in absence of the Lead. In charge of 30 QRT testers.

Barcelona

- I led the QA team creation from scratch. I managed the QA process of four games: Dragon City, Social Empires, Social Wars, Social Warriors (iOS, Canvas FB). Assessing and mentoring new hires. - I was the Game Designer of Social Empires. I designed all the PvE missions of the game, abilities and stats balancing. I researched and chose, along with the Producer, the troop units and dragons to sell. I helped to increase KPIs in SE by removing blockers in the FTUE and missions using our proprietary analytics. This was the game that finally allowed Social Point to have enough budget to create Dragon City, so I’m very proud of my contributions as part of a great team!

Cork, Condado De Cork, Irlanda

I translated and Loc QAed 150 games as part of an amazing team of three musketeers!

Zurich, Suiza

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

Barcelona, Cataluña, España

I led the QA team for games on the Nintendo DS, Wii, Xbox 360, PS3) setting up the development kits and passing all the Lotcheck processes. (Zombie BBQ, Animal Boxing, Elite Forces 77, Fritz Chess...). In charge of mentoring and hiring 4 QA team members.

Dublín, Dublín, Irlanda

Spanish CM for Warhammer Online (developed by EA Mythic)

Montreal, Quebec, Canadá

I QAed 50 games on J2ME smartphones (Rayman,Prince Of Persia, Splinter Cell, King Kong, etc...)