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(Open to work, recently made redundant)- Facilitated Quality Assurance (QA) operations for large-scale game projects, ensuring high-quality gaming experiences and seamless collaboration between design, development, and production teams.- Managed game testing teams by developing and authorizing detailed test plans, as well as coordinating game build deployments to ensure smooth development cycles and quality releases in Agile environments.- Oversaw daily QA efforts, maintaining close collaboration with designers, developers, and producers throughout the entire game development lifecycle.- Generated comprehensive QA documentation, including best practices for game testing, feature coverage, production support, and risk assessments, ensuring accessibility for all game departments.- Led bug triage and stand-ups alongside producers and project leads to prioritize issues and ensure smooth game development progress.- Conducted interviews and mentored new hires, fostering a highly effective and collaborative QA team the contributed to successful launches and production cycles.

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for developing and executing tests on new and existing projects and features, as well as tools and process improvements. I'm continuing to learn and master more proficient ways of software testing methods especially for social gaming (Web) and mobile platforms (iOS, Android and Kindle). We communicate various departments on a daily bases while also learning the ability to work with minimal supervision. Highlights include:* QA ownership for new features - direct cooperation with developers and product managers from the start of our features' planning to its maintenance after their release. Created and executed various test plans while also tutoring our QA team before official handoff to us. Coordinated daily play tests with our feature teams and also conducted studio-wide play tests across multiple teams.

Houston, Texas

Skilled senior tester and leader that serves as an example within the QA group while reporting directly to QA Leads. Responsible with not only normal duties of a QA Tester, but to also mentor others, guiding testing efforts with our team, develop and execute complicated test runs, and handle special requests that go above the normal day-to-day. Compile daily project status to Senior Management and Stakeholders.Highlights include:* Process improvement - developed documentation to streamline nightly build verification, saving our testing teams valuable time and resources.* Streamlined communication - served as a point-of-contact with our external testers in Poland, passing and relaying shared project knowledge efficiently between them and our QA Testers which has proven to produce optimal testing results.

Houston, Texas

Adept with all aspects of black-box testing, ad-hoc discovery of software defects, and routine test procedure executions. Uphold quality testing practices such as, but not limited to, hardware knowledge (PC, Mobile, PS4, Xbox One), flexibility, multitasking, and a natural intuition to common/unique user habits. Strong experience with PS4 compliance testing and accomplished multiple successful first-party submissions.Highlights include:* ISTQB Certified - studied and practiced practical software testing knowledge that I have already applied to various areas of software development, passing its exam at the Foundation Level.* Embedded Testing - handpicked to work along side with internal development, performing intensive white-box testing that helped mitigate major bugs ahead of time, thus my work vastly improve development time and save company resources.