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Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Automation and Web Test Engineer with a specialisation in online sales.- Planned, implemented and maintained automation test tools for a growing and continuously updated web platform.- Marshalled stand-up meetings, JIRA workflows and led a departmental effort to modernise development practices.- Drove QA efforts through significant feature updates, as well.

Dundee, United Kingdom

- Worked primarily with outsource QA and recent University Graduates to build a QA Team for Axiom Soccer to take it from earliest prototype to full Early Access release.- Created QA budgets, test plans, internal and external version release notes, and publicly facing known issues lists. I was also responsible for organising daily playtests throughout the.

Dundee, United Kingdom

- Mentored and coached senior, junior and embedded testers across multiple departments and projects.- Liased with Microsoft Publishing Partners, Studio management and outsource QA teams to ensure a quality product was delivered in as timely a manner as possible.- Conducted regular performance reviews with test team members at all levels, and helped set.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Experienced QA Manager currently leading a team working on social media tools, online profiles and on online entertainment projects for a variety of private sector companies.

Stirling

Content Editor and Creative Consultant- Writer for two unannounced Kickstarters, one of which is a multiplayer SHMUP being made in the Unreal 4 engine.- Creative consultant on two unannounced Next Generation games.- Writer for the APB Reloaded expansion 'The New Breed Part 3'

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

European Community Manager on APB Reloaded for Reloaded Productions.- Developed a long term feedback mechanism, gathering feedback on the first day, week and month of a features deployment to collate information on how reactions to those features changed as time progressed.- Year long community event planning and enactment, with contests tied to real world.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lead Content Writer on APB Reloaded for Reloaded Productions.- Created six new contacts for high level characters to progress through, including biographies, progression emails, voice lines, and descriptions for items granted by those characters.- Created product descriptions as well as item descriptions for both in-game and cash-shop usage. - Conceived.

Edinburgh, United Kindom

Operations Manager for outsourcing company Proper QA.- Developed written documentation for Test Angel test script library as well as contributing to redevelopment of that product.- Created a dedicated team of Customer Service representatives that offered outsourced CS solutions throughout the games industry. - Assisted with in-game marketing of new.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Tester on Unreal 3 Engine based animation toolkit that allowed users to create animations up to twenty minutes long by using a library of predefined animations that blended together procedurally to form smooth flowing animations.Responsibilities included: • End to end testing of the application including test matrix creation to help include all animations.

Dundee, United Kingdom

Quality Assurance tester at Realtime Worlds working on APB: All Points Bulletin.• Advised on several alterations to game design, such as weapon balance, vehicle balance, customisation, equipment, matchmaking and upgrades.• Extensive testing of missions in APB with a focus on how weapons effected different play spaces along with randomly generated mission.

Dundee, United Kingdom

While working at Realtime Worlds I was assigned the task of assisting the Creative Design team with mission narrative. I was brought in at the final stage of development to help 'punch up' the flavour of mission text and give rewrites (sometimes complete overhauls) of existing mission text that had to both explain to the player their goal and give them a.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

QA tester on Grand Theft Auto 4 with a strong focus on single player game flow and environmental art. During my time at Rockstar North I developed a keen eye for attention to detail and strong understanding of open world gaming. I was moved from the main tester pool and placed in a Development QA position where I was assigned to the Interior Art team and.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Analysed and rebalanced a currently existing 3D real time strategy game with an eye to bringing attention to the games backstory and trying to bring a greater level of differentiation to the three 'teams' in the game.

Ba Computer Games Design, Computers

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