Alan Heller Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Led ongoing testing efforts on EverMerge, a flagship title for the company as a whole.• Duties included test plan creation, directing other testers in creating test cases, release monitoring, and editing and revamping test cases used for projects company-wide. • Worked closely with local development teams as well as foreign partners, leading groups of testers both internal and external.• Mentoring and training other QA staff.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Led testing efforts for several mobile games in various stages of development.• Duties included test plan creation, creating test cases, release monitoring, tasking QA team members, and advocating for quality within a team environment. • Worked closely with local development teams as well as foreign partners, leading groups of testers both internal and external.• Led testing efforts to bring top grossing title EverMerge to worldwide release and into live operations

Redmond, Wa

Lead the testing effort on the Xbox One versions of the Groove Music and Movies & TV application.• Duties included reporting, communications with the development team for the purpose of improving the test cases, and training new team members, as well as coordinating with the teams testing on other platforms. • Tools used included Fiddler, Powershell, Visual Studio, and Excel.• Performed additional testing on Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and PC platforms.

Bellevue, Wa

Led teams of QA personnel in support of off-site development teams making mobile games in a variety of genres. Some responsibilities included: • Providing high level feedback for balance, gameplay mechanics, and UI.• Performing as a liason for off-site development teams, off-site QA teams, and off-site project management.• Fostering skill improvement in assigned testing personnel• Creative exploratory testing to supplement established test plans and test cases.

Kirkland

• Accountable for leading teams of testing personnel to provide coverage for iOS projects from early development stages to launch and post-launch updates. Responsibilities included creating test cases, managing small teams, and advocating for product quality in a Scrum environment.• Lead the testing team for Samurai vs. Zombies: Defense, the first mobile title released by the Glu Kirkland studio after acquisition by Glu Mobile.

Kirkland, Wa

• Assisted teams both local and off-site with ensuring that products met third party standards as part of a release management and certification group. Performed test passes on dozens of titles to ensure that they met with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo standards.• Helped create and maintain documentation on all of the company’s third party submission history to help smooth the submission process for future titles by minimizing rejections.

Kirkland, Wa

• Performed ad-hoc testing as well as designed and executed test cases on over twenty projects across handheld, mobile, console, and PC platforms.• Worked directly with development teams both on-site and non-local, using a wide variety of bug database software.

Redmond, Wa

Placed at Nintendo of AmericaPerformed ad-hoc testing on several titles for Nintendo platforms.