Scott Branston Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Woodinville, Wa

For nearly 20 years I have been working part time as a DJ and Producer for Event Source NW (formerly Instant Hollywood and Party Source NW). I create sonic landscapes for gatherings of varying sizes, utilizing a vast library of music from Classical to current, for all types of events. These events range from (but are not limited to) weddings and wakes, to fund raisers and auctions, to corporate parties and team building seminars, to conventions and award ceremonies, as well interactive games.I utilize the following tools regularly: Virtual DJ, Sound Forge, Vegas Movie Studio HD, and Photoshop."Music is the canvas for which a party is painted upon."

Greater Seattle Area

● Produced daily reports for monitors triggered for systems vital to operations and delivered them to our leadership team. These monitors, driven by SQL scripts, ran on schedules (QuickReports). I maintained ownership of these issues, from troubleshooting the issues, to creation and assignment of bugs, to collaboration with Product Owners, Managers and Authors of these monitors, to verification of fixes for these bugs, whether SQL database, application, monitor code related, to release and post deployment verification. ● Lead daily standup meetings with our Sustainment team, which discussed issues under development based on priority. Duties included tracking progress of these bugs, assigning new issues to the correct developers / departments, and helping clear any blocking issues that could be preventing team members from completing their tasks. ● Managed our Crowd Testing process through Test.IO. Composed several test suites for global website testing on multiple platforms, operating systems, and browsers. Validated more than 1,000 bugs over a year, which produced over 250 valid issues, and helped improve the real-world user experience for visitors to our site. ● Executed automation and Unit Test suites via Visual Studio, TFS (Azure Development), Telerik, Guest Inspector, Selenium, and Mabl platforms. Ran local debug builds for application testing, and updated database settings via SQL script for testing. ● For many years I was a dedicated SQAE resource for Sprint teams developing new features under Agile.

Greater Seattle Area

Just completed my contract through Volt on April 30th, 2013. Started on June 18th, 2012.My primary role was as Games Release QA for the GameHouse division of RealNetworks, which releases new games to the public daily. This included four Windows platforms, and three Mac OSX platforms, as well as online games. In addition, I was daily QA support for all website changes made for the marketing team.

Greater Seattle Area

Reviewed all DVD game assets before being burned onto media. Worked on all DVD titles through our authoring department over the last six and a half years, spanning more than 100 SKU’s and across several platforms. QA Tester for SceneIt.com, SceneIt? Movies on Facebook. Spearheaded Facebook messaging upgrade process. Created a detailed flowchart that revealed where the application was failing to adhere to new API requirements, the implementation of which kept the application from becoming noncompliant.Provided the analysis for Facebook SceneIt? Movies application based off data generated from player interaction with application. Produced weekly analytics reports to Managers, Marketing, and team members, to serve as a status update, as well as help drive the direction of the application’s development for future features releases. Composed a rich tracking manifest, which was submitted to our external developer for tracking implementation. Coordinated phone meetings with third party developers, tracking software developers (Kontagent), as well as our internal developing team.QA Tester on several iPhone and iPad titles for the SceneIt? Brand, including “Movies 2”, “Horror 2”, and “Pixel Flix”. QA Tester on Android port of the Daily SceneIt? application.Performed content verification testing with Xbox 360 console for the following titles: “Box Office Smash”, “Lights, Camera, Action”, and “Movie Night” for XBLA.

Coordinated with project leads and producers to meet aggressive development timelines. Created and managed detailed test cases, spreadsheets, and documentation for the test team. Managed project workflow by executing test plans, and assigning testers with daily tasks and test cases.  Acted as Assistant Producer for casual game “Jewel Thief”. Collaborated with the Producer to conceptualize and create storyline for the game. Assisted in writing game design documentation (GDD), proof-read copy for plot narration, and acted as editor for the storyline. Updated GDD to incorporate game feature requests and game design changes throughout the lifecycle of the project.Worked directly with managers, producers, developers, and testers to make sure all aspects of the title adhere to WildTangent’s standard of excellence.

Performed Xbox console testing of several titles, including Rallisport Challenge 2, Midtown X, Quantum Redshift, Mech Assault, NFL Fever 2003, Shenmue II, and Rally PC, with emphasis on Certification testing, File I/O, peripherals, FPS, and Xbox Live.Created and managed test cases, spreadsheets, documentation for my test areas of ownership, and provided test plans for Recon test team.Executed RSCript files for automation testing, debug, and stress testing.