Senior Software Quality Assurance Agent
Electronic Arts Canada
Operated as franchise specialist on the following titles: FIFA 2003, FIFA 2004, FIFA 2005, and FIFA Total Football.Due to the modules for which I was responsible (Franchise Mode, Tournament & Season Mode) there was close relationship between the game design team and myself which resulted in taking part in an advisory role in certain development meetings.Responsible for "Swat" teams during critical paths creating special testing scripts and emergency strategies for the QA team as well as being one of three special 'envoys' (one from QA, one from the Programmers, and one from Development) to discuss feature-cuts, workaround, and additional critical decisions.Managed and plotted project milestones; helped to determine what would be included in each Milestone with the Dev team.Managed two teams numbering between ten to twenty testers each.Produced and maintained automated documents which severely reduced workload enabling an elimination of overtime from the Milestone phase of testing.Designed and ran training programs for our franchise; trained groups of 30-40 individuals per class.Tested for Software defects on multiple platforms (PS2, Game cube, X-Box, PC, Nokia).