Colin Ferguson Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Unreal EngineTest automation.

Redmond, Washington, United States

𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘐𝘝:• Embedded within AI development team at Relic Entertainment.• Designed, coded, and deployed automated test scripting for the artificial intelligence player feature, with a primary focus on facilitating rapid detection of errors and quick iteration on developing fixes.• Re-architected test automation infrastructure, expand the scope of test capabilities, and planned and collaborated with build engineers to establish a continuous functional test automation pipeline.• Worked to expand test bot coverage, with a focus on responding to the needs of a team of test engineers.

Tacoma, Washington, United States

𝘑𝘰𝘣𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬:• Designed, coded and ran automated tests for web services used to communicate between company branch location and web application clients and the company host databases, facilitating the company's business of connecting temporary labor with open positions.• Maintained testing of legacy business software while facilitating a gradual transition to new services intended to replace that legacy software.• Architected test automation infrastructure to avoid reliance on external software licenses and increase their resilience during changes in company priorities and focus by implementing a custom test framework.

Bellevue, Wa

𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺:• Ensured that the project ran at a consistently smooth rate of performance with functional parity across Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Xbox One, and PS4 platforms via Telemetry capture and memory snapshot tools, analyzing and reporting the captured data with a focused on rapid collaboration with optimization developers.• Collaborated across teams to perform intensive test validation of the public beta branch which was played by 4.6 million people, the PS4 release candidate build, and the six-player raid launch content for Destiny.• Product sold more than five million units in the first two weeks since launch, with a total launch day revenue of $500 million.

Seattle, Washington, United States

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 website, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 mobile app, the 𝘏𝘶𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘴 mobile app:• Developed test plans and test cases for news website and mobile applications that recently passed 81,000 digital subscribers.• Carried out test cases, identified bugs, and verified formatting when viewing web pages on multiple browsers and across multiple platforms, including hand-held devices with proprietary applications.

Redmond, Washington, United States

𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘦𝘳 feature of Windows 7:• Executed daily, weekly, and monthly test automation cycles.• Triaged automated tests, analyzing and compiling reports on failures.• Updated, modified, and organized unit automated tests.

Redmond, Washington, United States

XML Editor/Debugger feature of 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 2010:• Planned, set-up, and executed automated testing scenarios and analyzed results of those tests.• Reproduced customer-submitted bugs under manual test cases, and wrote automated test scripts in C#.• Migrated team assets from one automated testing framework to another, including modifying existing software tools to accommodate that change.• Scripted automation to simplify transporting critical test assets from test server machines to machines on an isolated network.• Documented team assets and methods and performed hands-on training of team members in use of new software tools.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Windows Update feature of Microsoft 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘟𝘗, 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢 operating systems:• Maintained testing lab environment, ensured all equipment remained functional.• Modified and executed batch files on test server machines along with use of Automated Software Installer for environment configuration.• Maintained a database of equipment.• Administered test lab including altering access permissions and allocating and de-allocating machines for individual use.• Planned lab re-organization including physical placement of hardware and logical restructuring for space and ease of transition, integrated new hardware into existing setup, and planned new network topography.

Advanced Diploma Of Professional Game Development, Software Programming

• Graduate with Advanced Diploma of Professional Game Development - Game Programming • Classes in programming, graphic rendering.

Aas, Computer Science

• Classes in computer science, calculus, linear algebra, physics, computer network setup and administration, technical writing.