Kyle Cobos Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Crucial leadership team member within the third-party publishing team of Tripwire Interactive: Tripwire Presents. Creates and implements new processes, tools, and techniques to improve multiple facets of the QA department while managing, leading, and developing QA test teams to successfully release project updates into the live environment.• Collaborate with the QA Manager and the Dev QA Lead to preplanning and creating onboarding materials in TestRail, JIRA, Notion for our upcoming, unannounced project – the goal is to successfully build up new QA team members.• Successfully led the QA team for Chivalry 2 from 2021-2023; rolled off internal QA team to support Deceive Inc.o Utilize my outsider approach to implement new ideas, empower and challenge the testers to increase ownership and engagement, introduced new tools and processes resulting in improvements to team productivity.o Supported the release of several, back-to-back DLC updates and coordinate LiveOps support.o Oversaw the successful launch of two new SKUs: Steam and Microsoft Store (WinGDK).• Incorporating Emotional Intelligence (EQ) learnings to improve our teams’ interactions external between peers, developers, external QA teams, and upwards to the management team.• Interview new hire candidates; develop and iterate on new hire training materials, then provide hands-on training for game testing on PC (Steam & Epic Games Store), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Assists the QA Lead with managing video game testing, leads an in-studio extracurricular group, develops direct reports, and contributes to the department culture from a leadership perspective.• Worked on multiple projects, ranging in varying support roles from database administration, to task creation, to reporting and auditing QA Testers' work, updating risk registries, communicating with internal and external teams (production, marketing, development) capturing pertinent content for age ratings boards, etc.· Remains agile while wearing multiple hats to ensure quality of games are highest possible.• Assists the QA Manager and leadership team with managing and leading the QA studio.· This included but not limited to setting up video game testing practices, monitoring and reporting on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), document creation, and culture building. Together, we have cultivated an environment that boosts morale for all teammates.· Interviewed, onboarded, and built up new QA test team; provides coaching and mentorship.• Leader of team that creates the in-house Private Division newsletter.· Provides a vision for the team to work towards and audits results.· Collaborates with teammates and works independently.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Reported bugs found in video games for the publisher, 2K Games.• Analyzed and tested AAA games, then wrote bug reports in a live database.• Developed proficient working in databases such as JIRA by Atlassian and Helix ALM, formerly known as TestTrack Pro by Seapine Software Inc.• Supplied detailed, formal feedback to Firaxis Games for the titles I tested with them: XCOM 2 and the XCOM 2: War of the Chosen expansion pack.• Mentored and coached both new and existing testers on the team; assisted with onboarding.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Reported bugs found in video games for the publisher, 2K Games.• Analyzed and tested AAA games, then wrote bug reports in a live database.• Worked within databases such as JIRA by Atlassian and Helix ALM, formerly known as TestTrack Pro by Seapine Software Inc.• Assisted onboarding new hires onto the QA team.

Las Vegas, Nevada

"ZAP 6" participant - I worked with the Clark County parks & rec department to paint utility boxes as an individual contractor were I transformed each box into a piece of public art.

• Designed product layout for display table • Managed inventory: front & back of house• Processed incoming shipments & stocked sales floor• Provided 4 star customer service to guests of the hotel