Reuben Emery-Rhowbotham Email & Phone Number

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I worked at Frontier Developments on the Planet Zoo game, pre-release, working to larger, less-frequent milestones.Responsibilities included:• Following, creating, and reporting upon test plans;• Looking at and working on small areas of a project in totality;• Effective communication within a team all working on the same project;• Attending regular playtests, giving feedback towards project aims and stability.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I was asked to move to the Tech QA team in order to provide support during recruitment for a permanent Technical Quality Analyst.Working with the Tech QA team, I focused on manual testing and utilising automated tools to work towards biweekly engine releases for both RuneScape 3 and OldSchool RuneScape. My team focused on ensuring releases were bug-free and stable to dissuade pushbacks and work cohesively with Community Management and the Release Candidate team.Responsibilities included:• Manual and automated testing in Work in Progress (WIP) and Release Candidate (RC) environments for both RuneScape and OldSchool RuneScape on Mobile (Android and iOS), Linux, Mac, and Windows systems;• Bug reporting, regression and triage with industry standard tools such as JIRA and Confluence; • Managing and tracking the mobile devices used by the wider QA team;• Communication and coordination with other teams and departments.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

During my time with the Release Candidate team I worked with a senior to short sprint deadlines, receiving our workload on a Tuesday and working towards a Friday noon sign-off in the same week. The upload manager would collate all projects, as decided by our roadmap and release schedule, that had passed though WIP testing stages. The Release Candidate team would then check the build with merged content for potential merge issues, conflicts, or edge-cases. My team would also try to highlight potential player sentiment risks from small patches or Quality-of-Life fixes which may have unintended consequences or contradictions with prior released content.Responsibilities included:• Investigating bugs sent in via our in-game reporting system and subsequently writing, submitting, and following up on reports in JIRA;• Organising, attending, and providing constructive feedback for playtests for RuneScape, OldSchool RuneScape and the unannounced project (with playtests as small as 2 other specialised testers, to as large as 15-20 QA Analysts);• Creating and executing test-plans over a project lifecycle; creating and curating documentation on current workloads in Confluence for teams with a vested interest (such as Community Management and Marketing);• Attending meetings with in-house balancing councils;• Effective communication with lots of different teams and departments to ensure cohesion.

London, United Kingdom

I shadowed the Hutch team for a few weeks in the summer of 2015. I was observing the workflow and production of a large update on a racing game on a mobile platform.I did not have any specific responsibilities, but I did shadow various teams during the end of a sprint for a large update to their MMX Racing mobile game. I observed how interdepartmental bonds operate and learned how having a passionate and positive ethos studio-wide helped create a strong product; the main thing that I took from the experience was an insight into a professional environment as I had only had experience at university prior.

Master'S Degree, Computer Games And Programming Skills, Computer Games Design (Meng): Merit

After spending just over a year in the Games industry, I returned to Staffordshire University to complete my post-graduate. I graduated.

Computer Games Design, Computer Games And Programming Skills, Computer Games Design (Beng) Hons: Second Class.

After completing my diploma at Cambridge Regional College I went on to study an undergraduate degree at Staffordshire University. Starting.

Computer Games Design, Computer Games And Programming Skills, Ddm

Activities and Societies: Volunteer at local radio station, presenting.After completing my first year, I left my Sixth Form college.