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Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

Provide guidance and oversight to a group of Software Engineers in terms of Quality Assurance together with the development manager of those teams. Leading quality assurance process adoption within your teams by coaching them with focus on continuous improvement, identifying bottlenecks, points of failure and low ROI items on the system.Coaching and leading the adoption of the different testing techniques on the team contributing to develop an autonomous teams that deliver high quality software.

Málaga Area, Spain

Malaga

• Execute effective testing methodologies and QA best practices to ensure high quality deployments in suitable time frames. • Ensure development and maintenance of test strategies, test plans, test cases and release reports. • Drive changes to test automation approach, systems, coverage, and reporting.• Own and manage testing services for products in the delivery pipeline, taking ownership of the planning, preparation and execution phases of a project.• Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating resources both internally and externally.• Coordinate on project goals with Business Analysts, Developers, Dev Ops, Project Management, Development Management and other disciplines under Agile methodology.• Work with QA Managers to implement new test strategies and to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness by evolving QA methodologies.

P.T.A. Málaga

Responsible for providing testing services for various projects in the overall release pipeline.Working in collaboration with the QA Manager as well as Senior QA Engineers to provide a high standard of testing services to ensure that software products demonstrate the quality and polish the company stands for.Working closely within a team of Business Analysts, Project Managers, Developers and other QA team members under Agile Methodology.• Reviewing design artifacts for testability.• Design of high value test cases for use in the various stages of the software development lifecycle.• Execution of test cases for projects & Recording of results for test execution cycles undertaken.• Logging of defects when failures are encountered, ensuring sufficient details are recorded.• Reporting on test execution, the quality of the tested deliverables and adherence to standards.

Activision Blizzard Ireland Ltd.

Responsibilities• Lead projects, QA team and leads through the project from beta to code release candidates.• Prepare, execute and maintain test plans and methodologies on a project basis• Prepare post-mortem feedback; Report to Project Management, QA-Management.• Communicate with all stakeholders involved (QA, PM, TRG, Vendors, Production, Developers).• Induct, train and guide QA team and leads on localization, functional and compliance testing.Projects• Cabela’s Dangerous Hunt 2013 [2012] (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U)• Family Guy – Back to the Multiverse [2012] (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)• Wreck-It Ralph [2012] (Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii)• Ice Age 4 [2012] (PC)• Tony Hawk HD [2012] (PC)• Angry Birds Trilogy [2012] (Xbox 360)

Activision Blizzard Ireland Ltd.

ResponsibilitiesResponsible for overseeing the QA test team’s daily tasks, ensuring the team is focused on the task at hand, and assisting the QA Lead with project administration.• Implement project test cases, test scripts and tracking progression.• Ownership of defect database assignments from QA Lead.• Keeping the QA Lead up-to-date with testing status and highlighting project issues.• Assisting the QA Lead with project administration tasks.• Cultivate a familiarity with native/U.S. versions of the project to apprise test team of native defects.• Investigate and troubleshoot cross language and cross platform issues.• Assisting test team with hardware setup and hardware problems encountered.• Creation of project builds and tracking project media.Team• Keeping the QA team focused on the task at hand and main point of contact.• Providing support, guidance and mentor the testing team.• Answer or resolve questions and issues that arises throughout the project.• Improve the performance of the team by identifying their strengths and weaknesses.• Retraining members on the test team when necessary.• Conduct test team meetings.• Working with QA Leads to create and enhance test plans and scripts.Projects• DJ Hero 2 [2010] (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii)• Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock [2010] (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii) • How to Train Your Dragon [2009] (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS)• Guitar Hero: Band Hero [2009] (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii)• Guitar Hero 5 [2009] (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii)

Activision Blizzard Ireland Ltd.

Test localised games, report and verify fix of localisation and functional issues to ensure each product meets the highest quality standard before final delivery.QA Testing• Test each project assigned to identify localisation and functional defects.• Review language components (e.g. Text & Audio files) before integration.• Identify and report defects into the bug database in a clear and concise manner.• Verify defects to ensure each issue has been addressed correctly and fixed.• Provide ad-hoc translations as fix suggestion for linguistic issues.Teamwork• Keep the QA Lead up-to-date on the testing status and highlight problem areas.• Work effectively within a team, good team player.• Take responsibility for the quality of project areas assigned.• Provide assistance to other team members, work as team buddy when required.• Provide constructive feedback on QA test scripts and test plans.

Dublin, Ireland.

Test localised game assets to ensure each product meets the highest quality standard before final delivery.