Eric Chocholacek Email & Phone Number

Remote

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

As an Associate Quality Designer, I’ve been focusing on creating a more specialized skillset to help my team succeed and improve the QA practices across EA. In this role I’ve learned and refined my skills in knowledge sharing, being an advocate in design and implementation decisions, analyzing consumer/player data and using it to guide decisions in both functional and automation spaces of a project. Now learning to act as a Scrum Lead, I have gotten to experience the people-managing side of QA and have been really enjoying my time working with and building up an effective team of quality professionals that constantly challenge our developers to meet a very high level of quality. During my time in this role, I’ve aided in the development of bringing EA Games back to Steam, making EA Games available on the Epic Games Store, bringing the EA Play (formerly EA Access) subscription to the current generation of consoles, as well as spearheading the QA initiatives that brought the EA Play subscription into the Xbox Game Pass subscription.Skills I learned and was able to expand upon in this role:– Reviewing with other Designers/partners the impact of features and their influence on essential product metrics; provide risk-analysis to development– Identifying, proposing and implementing viable process and measurement solutions within team– Providing task breakdown, planning, considerations and time estimates for assignments– Providing Qualitative feedback regarding the product– Providing input to management team to assist decision-making; helping assess project impact of available options– Translating end-to-end Customer experiences into Test Strategies for a Product– Analyzing personal and team process for innovation opportunities, and escalating potential improvements

Vancouver, Canada Area

As a QA Development Support Tester at Electronic Arts Vancouver, I've been able to build upon my testing skills even further by working closely with developers to learn and utilize new tools and practices for testing applications. Working with an application instead of a game has allowed me to learn new testing strategies to find and report bugs that are relevant to a user's experience with navigating menus, receiving specific promotion information, and having a great experience with a hub application in general.Skills I learned and was able to expand upon in this role:- Agile and Scrum methodologies - Providing assistance while integrated with the development process, and attending stand-ups- Application testing- Providing Qualitative feedback regarding the product- Maintaining the Quality Assurance pipeline from discovery through a fix to regression verification- Teamwork

Montreal, Canada Area

My tasks as a Test Coordinator at VMC started small, with simply vetting issues written by testers and coaching them on ways to improve their bug writing, but quickly grew in complexity as the team I was on also began to grow in size. During my time as a Test Coordinator, I have gained a vast amount of knowledge related to leading and managing large scale projects by using my newly honed skills in task management and helping testers stay on a course to improvement.Other skills I was able to expand upon:- Managing day-to-day activity in the issue tracking database, including routing issues, providing feedback to testers on the quality of their bug write-ups and performed end-of-project triage.- Creating and maintaining extensive gameplay design documents for QA purpose.- Mentoring new team members in regards to proper protocols and practices.- Quickly providing in-depth answers to testers that required more information.- Locating and writing bug reports pertaining to single and multiplayer functionality, balancing, performance, exploits, visual appeal, and overall entertainment level.- Implementing QA best practices and processes.- Participating in staffing plans related to the QA Lead’s project(s), and being responsible for day-to-day coaching and evaluation of testers on the team.

Montreal, Canada Area

As a Functional QA Tester at VMC, I learned how to utilize my recently acquired skills from post-secondary education and how QA for Triple-A games functions as a whole. At the time I joined VMC, I was excited to finally be working in the games industry and was prepared to show my fellow teammates just what I was capable of. Through my hard work and background knowledge of video game development, I was able to quickly advance up the ranks of Tester and become a dependable asset to my project(s) and team members.Functional Testing skills that I was able to expand upon and solidify:- Test Cases- Regression of known issues- Destructive and Creative Testing- Testing procedures and practices on all major platforms (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC)- General Bug Investigation

Certificate Of Completion, Game And Interactive Media Design

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Diploma, Game Art And Design