Ryan Tuck Email & Phone Number

Troy, New York, United States

Projects worked on include Knockout City (PC/console) and an unannounced project with an external partner.I was promoted to QA Lead and led a 15 person team of QA for Knockout City as we switched to a live service and seasonal-content model of development.While lead, I worked to improve QA sustainability, improved coordination with our external testing team at Keywords Studios, and helped increase the visibility of QA work to other departments.In addition, I helped to develop new testing techniques for proprietary hardware, based on published studies on potential user comfort and usability issues for similar hardware.I also started a new QA team on the unannounced project. This included starting the first pass testing on the project, as well as collecting and creating documentation, creating test passes, onboarding new QA to the team, and reporting issues both internally and to the external partner.

Troy, New York, United States

Projects worked on include Knockout City (PC/console) and Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Nintendo Switch).Helped lead a 16 person team of QA for Knockout City, with a focus on coordinating day to day testing with internal stakeholders and external teams at Electronic Arts and Keywords Studios.Major areas of personal testing were in early latency and performance testing, commercialization, and any other area that needed an experienced tester to create the foundation for later testing.In addition, I supported testing of Mario Kart Live, both directly via early testing and later through coordination of test resources.

Menands, New York, United States

Projects worked on included Destiny 2 (PC version) and Destiny: Guardians (Korean-specific release of Destiny 2).I was promoted to Assistant Lead and given assistant leadership of 20 person QA team and direct leadership of 3 person team testing integration of all Blizzrd Battle.net features into Destiny 2 (including social and MTX/commercialization features).After Destiny 2 on the PC shipped, I was given assistant leadership of a 10 person QA team for the Korean-specific release of Destiny. I was responsible for developing testing techniques for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese IME as well as ensuring that my team was able to successfully test other Korean specific features such as pre-order bonuses, Internet Game Room (IGR) activated features, and daily server shutdown messaging to comply with the Korean Youth Protection Revision Act.

Menands, New York, United States

Project worked on was Destiny 2 (PC version).Personal responsibilities included test pass creation and execution, daily testing, ad hoc testing, regression testing, and verification.Major area of testing ownership was a new system for Destiny 2 making game and physics updates frame-rate independent.

Menands, New York, United States

Projects worked on included Skylanders: SuperChargers (console and mobile versions) and Guitar Hero Live (ports to mobile and AppleTV). Personal responsibilities included daily testing, ad hoc testing, regression testing, verification, and specific level, character, or use case testing.

Greater New York City Area

Startup company for high-end clothing concierge and e-commerce services, with a focus on the integration of brick & mortar stores with web-based and mobile app-based services. Personal responsibilities included back-end software design and implementation for web-based services, integration of web-based and app-based services, and assistant programming.

Troy, Ny

Startup company focused on mobile app development for iOS. Created a stock picker game (using real stock prices) and a tower defense game.Personal responsibilities included front-end and back-end software design, bug fixing, high-level algorithm design and implementation.