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Lake Forest, California, United States

San Ramon, California, United States

o Managed team of 10 QA specialists and coordinated publishing QA services between three international in-development AAA games, including compliance, compatibility and localization QA and development QA.o Managed high figure QA budgets for multiple projects, planning out costing timelines and controlling expenditures.o Handled negotiations and facilitated contract signing with third party vendors to provide support to development studios.

San Ramon, California, United States

o Built from scratch a fully functional QA department of 100+ QA members, ranging from internal Dev QA Analysts, compliance and compatibility test teams, and large external QA test groups.o Formalized and implemented QA process for the entire studio, outlining standardized bug and test plan formats.o Maintained quality control of the project through development by hosting regular triage meetings and production/development director syncs and organizing multiple in-studio playtests sessions.o Trains and mentors onsite and external QA associates in their performance and career development goals.

San Francisco, California, United States

o Communicates sprint plans, current release readiness, and issues within Engineering and to Leadership teamso Drives the end-to-end release process for monthly planned releases, and unplanned hotfix releaseso Responsible for outlining QA test plans, tracking metrics, and supporting the development team across several concurrent projects through regular release cycles.o Trains and mentors onsite and external QA associates in their career development goals.

San Francisco, California

o Coordinated with the development, leadership and QA teams to reduce errors related to production by 40%.o Modified and managed game data related to game economy, primarily regarding the in-game events and store, to allow for fast and efficient data releases, averaging 10+ per week.o Executed targeted offer strategy that increased lifetime value by 150%, and in-game events system that increased LTV by 200%.o Provided deep dive analysis on player data through SQL queries that identified major pain points.o Designed specs and managed the creation of new product features through full sprint cycles.o Reduced build review time without reduction in quality.

San Francisco, California

o Functioned as Embedded QA on a high-speed hybrid agile/waterfall development schedule for a live mobile title.o Trained 80% of the QA existing team, onboarding 4 to 6 people per year. o Outlined QA milestone test plan for features in development.o Managed and supported global core QA and localization teams by providing daily guidance and direction on current and upcoming milestone goals.o Organized team playtests with designers to provide actionable feedback.o Worked closely with the marketing team to provide testing and support of the store purchase flow and various dynamic marketing campaigns.

Emeryville, Ca

• Provided leadership over a small in-house team of Quality Assurance professionals and external QA testing partners while operating under a strict agile development process.• Created and maintained a series of clear and effective test plans, which were used by both the internal and external QA teams.• Worked directly with development teams to perform specialized testing, support, and analysis of pre-integration features and prototyped game mechanics.• Collaborated daily with development and production leadership for short and long term development planning.• Established a pipeline with game designers to collect, organize, and present qualitative feedback on early game design concepts and documentation.

Emeryville, Ca

• Performed specialized white-box and tools assisted manual testing to ensure product stability and performance.• Defect analysis on game features and systems.• Provided support and debug expertise to game software engineers.• Created technical acceptance tests for new features and kept them up-to-date throughout the project.

San Francisco, Ca

• Tested wide variety of games to carefully identify potential defects regarding issues in functionality, progression, balance, entertainment value, compliance standards, and overall quality.• Lead strike groups to tackle specific testing tasks while under heavy deadlines.• Assisted production staff with qualitative feedback and provided helpful suggestions.