Lisa Doyle Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Would probably have to be the most satisfying job I've ever imagined having, or least top 5 or something.As a Senior QA Associate, I help my manager and lead create and deploy team assignments while providing hands-on assistance with quality assurance efforts for multiple large-scale projects, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products across web and mobile platforms. I develop comprehensive test plans for a stand-alone casual mobile games, as well as ensuring the ongoing functionality of 100+ gambling games within several MMO Social Casinos, with frequent SaaS-style deployments operating under Agile.I regularly lead QA and development teams through combined bug bashes, providing clear and easy instructions while simultaneously providing help, answering questions and facilitating issues and feedback from both developers and QA. My role facilitates collaborations between cross-developmental teams such as engineering, design, and product management to ensure alignment on project goals, timelines, milestones, and of course: quality!I am dedicated to continuous learning, eager to taking on new technical challenges that extend my capabilities, and allow me to provide more robust QA support to my team and colleagues. I have a keen eye for identifying roadblocks to efficient QA testing and am unafraid to raise the alarm on how these could be improved. I excel in creative thinking, white box and exploratory testing and have a knack for finding edge cases, but am excited to take on any challenge that may improve quality whether that be an internal process, helping debug, or improvements within our game worlds.

Seattle, Wa

Bellevue, Washington, United States

.Voluntarily departed this role to pursue a startup. Transitioned from a contract to full-time embedded position within four months, I quickly demonstrated my value by seamlessly integrating into the team. As the sole QA specialist on a pivotal project, I was entrusted with upholding rigorous testing standards and company best practices throughout all phases of development, often with minimal oversight. My role required close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, including production, design, programming, and data & analytics -- ensuring that every aspect of the project met our high standards.I took on leadership responsibilities in the absence of test leads, managing task delegation, overseeing test scripts, and compiling detailed daily and weekly product quality reports for executives.Additionally, I spearrheaded company-wide bug bashes, organizing objectives from project managers, gathering feedback from developers/"players", and maintaining a comprehensive library of test-ready devices. I also created a mobile save data library to ensure seamless app updates across different gameplay progressions. I learned to build daily QA test-ready builds using Xcode, Perforce, and Unity, stepping in when needed.Beyond my technical duties, I facilitated the onboarding of new hires, sharing standardized testing practices, project-specific insights, and company best practices. I also contributed creatively by capturing in-game trailer footage for marketing and preparing art reference files for the creative team. My expertise extended to iOS certification testing, cloud storage, monetization strategies, legacy user app version updates, and dynamic feature verification. Whenever requested, I provided gameplay, usability, and design feedback to enhance the project at various stages.

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Griptonite Games was a studio that developed movie-based and other IP games for publishers, primarily Nintendo DS, handsets, and other consoles. Acquired by Glu Mobile in 2012.

This position required critical thinking methodologies and the ability to work through a problem backwards. Constructive feedback and standardized best practices ensured a certain level of qualiry amongst all team members.My testing repertoire encompassed ad hoc, regression, functional, BVT, smoke, sanity, stress, network, localization (French and Spanish) and black box testing techniques (and the occasional call stack interpretation).Furthermore, my experience with Xbox Kinect—from its prototype iterations through infancy toward sophisticated production hardware have lent a unique insight into the need to rapidly pivot pioneering software and its testing needs.Kinect testing included intricate aspects such as skeletal tracking, body detection, boundary limits, and multi-camera functionality, within many environments, requiring quickly learning cutting-edge testing and debug software that was a first in its time.Additionally, I provided web and cloud storage testing across multiple browsers, alongside troubleshooting and debugging Xbox 360 crashes via Visual Studio and utilizing testing tools within Unreal Engine 3.Watched User Research and Experience videos, reproducing and logging any bugs, particularly with skeletal tracking.