Chris V. Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Culver City, California, Us

QA Lead for Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff.

San Mateo, California, Us

- Worked in An Embedded position in Live Operations Feature Development, New IP, and Weekly Content development cycles and am familiar with the specifics of QA’s role in each. - Aligned with Engineers, Artists, Designers, and Project Managers on creating comprehensive Test Strategies that focus on specific areas of the software based on risk.- Worked alongside engineers to break projects down into deliverable milestones that made sense based on the manpower available.- Created and executed Test Cases and Test Runs made up of test plans designed around the agreed work outlined in the Test Strategy.- Represent QA in the weekly Scrum Meeting cadence.- Analyzed current bug trends in projects and translated the info into easily understandable project metrics for stakeholders.- Put together play tests designed around and focused on specific engineering work recently done as to maximize the use of everyone’s time in such an expensive meeting.- Designed and executed live testing for submissions post-release, and have used sync error tracking software to monitor for major spikes of issues.- Oversee the release of Seasonal Binaries of our games.- Worked as the solo QA person on a project, one of two, and on teams of up to six QA members.- Became very familiar with the post-release life cycle of a game, including content updates, bug fixes, and feature development.- Created Confluence pages based on current features being worked on, as to better align with the content team that will eventually be seeing and working with these features as they go live.- Familiar with the iterative process that occurs as a title is soft launched and tested in various worldwide regions.

Marina Del Rey, California, Us

- Scope potential projects and create test plans personalized for each specific project. - Manage teams of upwards of twenty testers, creating specific tasks for each tester on each day. - Create start and end of day reports to send to the client detailing our intended tasks/tasks that were performed that day. - Learn and perform various Compliance related tests across all major platforms including Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, Xbox 360, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation Portable, Playstation Vita, and all iOS devices. - Form positive relationships with clients to encourage repeat business. - Conduct focus tests: Create a questionnaire specific to the game in test, have a group of testers (Sometimes from the public) sit down for a play session with the game while filling out the questionnaires, then conduct a sit-down interview with the testers to attempt to get them to expand upon thoughts written in their questionnaires.

Marina Del Rey, California, Us

- Handled tasks given out by the Test Leads.- Made sure all testers were on-task.- Relayed any questions/information the testers have to the Test Lead. - Perform Compliance testing, Regression testing, Functionality testing, Compatibility testing, and Irregular testing on multiple projects for various current and next-gen systems.

Marina Del Rey, California, Us

- Performed Basic testing methods across both console and mobile titles. - Focus on Functionality testing, Regression testing, and Irregular testing.