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Pardis County, Tehran, Iran

• Held Accountability for the quality of two Cloud-Gaming projects “rivalarium.com” and “Playpod.ir”.
• Distributed and broke down tasks to team members, based on their Strengths and area of expertise. Mentored and Trained junior colleagues with software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile Methodologies, and QA process.
• Responsible for Setting up Test Plans, Test runs, and Submitting Test Reports to developers, and updating documentations. Provided constructive feedback after each version.

Pardis County, Tehran Province, Iran

• Ensured a 99.99% crash-free Android application, Based on Flurry Analytic reports; By writing Test Cases and creating Test Suites, Issue tracking with GitLab and Qase, and executing Regression tests, Functionality.
• On the Playpod project, Ensured 99.99% of service uptime by daily Usability tests on all platforms.
• Used K6 Automation Tool for Load tests in CI/CD pipelines, to find Server capacity on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). Developed automated E2E tests with Playwright for web apps with a BDD testing approach.
• Used Grafana to Trace API requests, using each API request’s traceID. Hands-on experience with Git commands with solid knowledge of REST APIs, and gRPC. Monitored a PostgreSQL database using PGAdmin.

Tehran Province, Iran

• Executed Combinatorial, Functionality, Ad-hoc, and Regression tests on Android devices.
• Enhanced testing cycles by writing 500 Test Cases, Test runs, and delivering Bug Reports (in Gherkin) on Trello.
• helped in mitigating defects to 40% by Play-tests on “RoyalNard” (Board Game project).
• contributed in First Time User Experience tests (FTUE tests) on “RoyalNard” project.
• Improvement of a rewarding system in the RoyalNard project to 30%, by play-learning other games.

Tehran Province, Iran

• On the Tactics project, Executed Combinatorial tests, Functionality tests, Compatibility tests, Soak tests, Regression tests, and Ad-hoc (Monkey tests) tests on Android and iOS devices.
• Reduced vague levels designs to 35%, by Play-testing and First Time User Experience tests (FTUE tests).
• Contributed to the mitigation of bugs and errors by writing over 500 test cases(in Gherkin), conducting test executions, and providing concise test Reports on Trello.
• On the Northern Farm project, executed A/B tests on in-game item prices which resulted in a 35% increase in total in-app purchases. Designed LiveOps to increase Retention by up to 10% based on Game Analytics.
• Transferred Level-Designs with Unity 3D tools to the game, to implement direct changes. And used Unity 3D to design in-game leagues to decrease Churn-Rate up to 15% based on Game Analytics reports.

Tehran, Iran

• Ensured 100% usability and functionality of two Game-Marketplace apps, "BaziGushi" and "Porbazi," in Iranian Android marketplaces, conducting rigorous manual tests, User Acceptance Tests (UAT), Smoke tests.
• Played a pivotal role as a Localization QA tester, translating and localizing trending games on Google Play (+25 titles) to Farsi, resulting in a 25% increase in user acquisitions, successfully engaging a wider audience.