Ricardo Alvarez Email & Phone Number

United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Cloud Imperium Games – Embedded QA/Arena Commander– Hybrid July 2022 – August 2023Worked with Engineers, Programmers, Designers, and Production to fulfill test request of upcoming modes and features.
• QA ownership of Arena Commander, Star Citizens FPS/Flight/Multiplayer module, this included test plan creation, feature testing, bug tracking, regression testing, risk assessment, flagging of outstanding issues.
• Performed daily sweeps ensuring build stability when met with integrations or service improvements to keep a high-quality standard.
• Contributed QOL feedback to new and existing designs, features, and modes keeping the players perspective in mind when in the iterative process.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Worked with upper management to help plan, dissect, risk management, milestone, and organize future features or products.
• Built strong relationships with partner teams to craft working agreements to manage joint projects.
• Created and contributed ideas to areas beyond my immediate ownership across different teams and disciplines.
• Perform daily stand up meetings with production voice concerns, present goals, and to discuss current and future content being implemented into the product.
• Performed Black Box testing to create test cases in order to fact check new information, functionality testing, and cross verifying specifications from platform to platform.
• Navigate our database to complete manual test cases along with checking automated functions.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Note: This company was acquired by Metallicus.*
• Worked with upper management to help plan, dissect, risk management, milestone, and organize future features or products.
• Perform daily stand up meetings with production voice concerns, present goals, and to discuss current and future content being implemented into the product.
• Performed Black Box testing to create test cases in order to fact check new information, functionality testing, and cross verifying specifications from platform to platform.
• Navigate our database to complete manual test cases along with checking automated functions.
• Use Jira daily to write, track, and regress issues to maintain an updated database.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Perform daily stand up meetings with production and QA management to voice concerns, present goals, and to discuss current and future content being implemented into the game.
• Use and create test cases daily in order to fact check new information, functionality testing, and cross verifying specifications given from our Korean partners.
• Communicate with the team using Slack or Outlook whenever necessary to maintain transparency, ask for extra assistance, completion of assignments, and allowing our work to remain visible for any extra input or better.
• Use Jira daily to write, track, and regress issues to maintain an updated database.

Downtown Los Angeles

• Develop and manage online marketing campaigns to effectively expand our audience along with increasing brand awareness.
• Create promotional graphics, photograph, and help manage our events.
• Analyze sales, expenses, and new business data.

Santa Monica, CA

• Worked closely alongside teammates, QA management and production to resolve issues, execute assigned test plans and ensure intended gameplay functionality.
• Performed detailed analysis of new gameplay features and performance to assure build functionality
• Use Jira, Devtrack, Outlook, perforce, excel and when problems occurred, reported and documented test results, tracked bug status, reviewed bug reports and communicated issues to QA leadership.
• Assisted training new multiplayer hires, helping them become acclimated to Treyarch's internal testing standards and multiplayer QA team expertise.

Worked in the shipping department picking orders, palletizing and organizing merchandise.Responsibilities included:- Receiving and fulfilling orders- Maintaining a clean and organized work space - Managing a small team to fulfill high quantity orders

United States

Was contracted to help with graphic designs for club promotion, clientele, artist covers, and app development.Responsibilities included:- Answering and replying to client emails- Designing flyers based of client request- Searching for images and helping maintain a image library with other designers Work daily in Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe.

Contracted to help a small team level design a mobile IOS and Android based game using the Unity 3D engine. Responsibilities included:- QA testing the app when changes or updates were made- Coding in JS to prototype ideas or request for changes- Creating work flow sheets, milestone spreadsheets, and logging bugs into a excel sheetWorked daily in Unity 3D.

Associates Of Game Design, Game Design, 3.4

Diploma