Caleb Metheny Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, United States

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• All things quality on Marvel's Avengers, shipping the game and all five story expansions.
• Moved to working with The Initiative on Perfect Dark. Wrote and created QA onboarding documentation. Helped train my team on UGS and running the Unreal Editor from Visual Studio.

Redmond, WA

• Part of the playtest team that facilitates, organizes, setups and runs internal playtests and tournament experiences on PC and Xbox One for Halo Infinite and Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
• Maintained equipment for multiple labs and became adept at preparing hardware and builds for various types of team reviews. Logged playtest issues and tasks. Deployed surveys, gathered crashes, and recorded feedback.
• Led research, tested, and crafted reports on PC and Xbox peripherals. Resulting in hardware purchase decisions for the lab and other teams in the studio.
• Collaborated with partner teams and acted on stakeholder feedback to develop and integrate changes to tools and pipelines to improve playtesting and issue reporting.
• Contributed to the creation and content of a new centralized documentation process for playtest tools, procedures, and excel reports.

Redmond, WA

• Promoted to associate producer, to manage, run, and coordinate internal studio playtesting sessions of an unannounced MMO project. In addition, I supported, traveled, set-up, and ran external playtests of our project.
• Accomplished the creation of a new playtest request pipeline and improved playtest culture. Resulted in a focused weekly playtest schedule that produced the documentation of bugs, design feedback, and survey results.
• Utilized JIRA, Confluence, and Outlook to triage tasks, report, and distribute information accordingly on any issues that directly related to or otherwise affected playtests. Wrote tutorials and tools documentation..
• Set up, maintained, and managed a playtest lab compromised of thirty Windows 7, 8.1, 10, stations. Mastered internal project tools related to running builds out of multiple perforce branches. Worked closely with the.

Kirkland, WA

• Managed the hardware and software upkeep of multiple internal play test labs. Troubleshooting any issues in order to minimize impact on schedule.
• Supported the entire studio for issues or questions about XDP accounts, Xbox Ones (retail and dev mode), Xbox One accessories, propping builds, and internal tools (test and art). Equally taking into consideration.
• Consulted and set up for studio needs concerning the technical planning of running Halo 5: Guardians for external and internal events such as marketing demos and expos, ship rooms, and pop-up play test labs. Traveled.
• Ran play tests, helping manage a master schedule spanning multiple teams.

Bellevue, WA

• Tested against all areas of InFAMOUS: Second Son & InFAMOUS: First Light. On-boarded new hires during the ramp to ship.
• Captured and edited in game video for internal, focus testing, shipped title, and marketing use. Worked directly with Sony Creative to help produce trailers. Created desired content during sensitive time frames, with.
• PlayStation 4 Blackbox testing, PS4 SDK, Hansoft, Perforce, Blackmagic Media Express, Final Cut Pro

Kirkland, WA

• Part of the campaign test team for Halo 4. With a focus on cinematics, Picture-in-Picture videos, performance, split screen, Co-Op, title updates, and mission progression. Assisted in the testing of multiplayer & DLC.
• Wrote and executed test cases for cinematics. Ran weekly and daily BVT’s utilizing developer and test tools. Used Jira daily to log, track, and regress crashes & bugs. Completed test passes.
• Xbox 360 Blackbox testing, Content BVT, JIRA, Visual Studio, Pavilion, Clarity, Bonobo, Xbox Chief

Kirkland, WA

• QA Team member on Gotham City Imposters and Guardians Of Middle Earth. Focused on multiplayer, DLC, title update, game balance, and matchmaking testing.
• Utilized JIRA to document bug reports, balance & design feedback, log & upload crashes, and regress bugs.
• Executed test plans with a team and supplemented the test areas with exploratory and Ad Hoc testing.
• Xbox 360 and Games For Windows Live Blackbox Testing

Bellevue, WA

• QA Team member on inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood and inFAMOUS 2 updates.
• Testing focus: audio mix, update compatibility, user generated content, localization, environment, and PlayStation Move controller support.
• PlayStation 3 Blackbox & Ad hoc Testing, Target Manager

Redmond, WA

• Part of the multiplayer test team for Crackdown 2. Achieved Xbox Live Matchmaking, TCR, bandwidth, leader board, DLC, and title update testing on the Xbox 360 in a multiplayer lab environment.
• Part of the Age of Empires Online test team performing multiplayer, account, and Games for Windows live testing. Tested specific PC functionality and compatibility in a lab environment.
• Assisted in the multiplayer testing of various XBLA titles.
• Blackbox, Ad hoc, & TCR Testing, TFS, JIRA, Visual Studio, GTO, Word, Excel, Outlook

Redmond, WA

• Part of the game play test team for Forza 3, communicating with Turn 10 Studios daily to accomplish goals. Developed an understanding of the product life cycle for a software title on the Xbox 360. Writing bug reports.
• Assisted in the development of test cases with a team and executed them.
• Tested Facebook, Last.FM, and Twitter applications for Xbox 360.
• Blackbox Testing, Product Studio, GTO, Word, Excel, Outlook

Education record

Diploma