Proven Quality Assurance tech with over 9 years of solid background in testing and development. Skilled in leading QA teams, implementing testing processes and identifying and resolving defects. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with focus on delivering high-quality products.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work history
SENIOR QA TECHNICIAN
YAGER Development
Berlin, Germany
07.2022 - Current
Create, develop, analyze and iterate on QA processes and strategies that ensure efficient & reliable testing plans to accurately reflect the quality of features.
Ensure bug reporting is clear, accurate, quality driven and reproducible at scale.
Ensure timely and effective delivery of QA goals within the broader project and studio.
Manage QA workload and work alongside the team to get the task done.
Guide and mentor regular, junior and intern QA members through on-boarding and workshops.
Tracking quality metrics and implementing strategies to address under performing areas.
Provide effective reporting and analysis of the quality team's output.
Collaborating with different development teams to ensure coverage of the content for next milestone.
Actively participate in sprint planning and reviews.
Ensure quality analysts are embedded effectively and working collaboratively within feature teams.
Organizing daily and weekly play tests with the development teams.
SENIOR QA ANALYST
Sumo Digital
Pune, India
02.2021 - 07.2022
Designing and executing test cases as per the design documents.
Coordinating with external compliance & functionality teams to delegate task and tests.
Generating builds and deliver them to internal and external QA team.
Direct communication with developers, release management teams and 1st Party(Sony/MS) for planning and streamlining the compliance tests and project submission processes.
Offering plans of action to deal with delays that may affect content, timelines or quality.
Organizing trainings, workshops & development plans for team.
Support manager in hiring & training new team members.
Forecasting of people or hardware resource requirements.
Perform day-to-day testing task with smoke checks and regressions.
Handling all aspects of bug database like reporting, triaging, assigning, regression of bugs.
Analyzing 1st Party requirements/reports and implementing required processes and procedures covering the required test cases and ensure high pass rate.
Attend daily scrum and standup meetings to provide QA perspective.
Provide support to game validation, submissions and releases.
ASSISTANT QA LEAD
Pole To Win International
Hyderabad, India
10.2019 - 01.2021
Managing and facilitating 20+ testers team on daily basis on PC, console and mobile platforms.
Coordinate with external compliance, functionality & localization team to track features status.
Provide agile support to development teams and partners to complete expected deliverables.
Plan QA deliverables and ensure coverage for all the testing requests from all areas and milestones of development.
Design and create test plans for game for maximum test coverage.
Perform bug database maintenance by tracking, assessing, triaging.
Proactively give feedback on the significance of the bugs encountered and highlight the risks to stakeholders and producer.
Offering plans of action to deal with delays that may affect timeline.
Estimate and Manage resource allocations for different projects. Review capacity of the team relating to the scope of the project.
Ensure effective internal & external communication via scrum and standup meeting.
Prepare and send status report of testing activities, issue statistics.
Validating project as per scheduled timeline with highest success rate.
Take 1 to 1 reviews of team members for performance tracking.
Build competent & efficient QC team by providing training.
Schedule and take interviews as per project requirement.
SENIOR COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST
Ubisoft
Pune, India
05.2014 - 09.2019
Handling first party game tests and leading smooth validation and approval of the game and title updates on Sony/Microsoft platforms.
Creating test plans & cases to achieve maximum test coverage.
Coordinate game testing on wide variety of platforms.
Direct communication with release team, producers and console manufacturer for planning and executing submissions of the game.
Communicating with different project stakeholders to review project milestones, risks & project implementations during all phases.
Conceive & optimize test cases, bug reports with proper terminology for targeted audience.
Perform Bug Database management tracking, assessing, assigning priorities, etc.
Organizing play tests for network and features checks with compliance and functionality teams.
Prepare and send the status report of testing activities, statistics of reported issues & risk assessment reports to development teams.
Support mangers in hiring, interviewing new candidates.
Guide, mentor and motivate team members to set high standards.
TEST ENGINEER
Globalstep LLC
Pune, India
12.2009 - 04.2010
Testing the games based on walk-through, functionality and localization on multiple platforms.
Creating Testcases and test plans for the assigned feature.
Reporting and regressing issues using Jira bug database.
Supporting compliance team in checking 1st party guidelines.
Participate in weekly play test for multiplayer titles.
Sending daily and weekly test reports.
Education
Master of Engineering - Mechanical Design
University of Pune
Pune
08.2012 - 08.2017
Skills
Test Planning
Test analysis
Project Management
Agile Methodology, Scrum
Team Leadership
People Management
Client Relation
Unreal Editor
Bug tracking - Jira, Azure DevOps
Test Case management - TestRail, Excel Sheets, Confluence
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