Dayananda S.P.
Senior Game Tester
Udupi
Summary
Passionate Game Tester with 13 years of helping developers expand audiences by providing deep insight into gamers' tastes and desires. Comfortable providing both functional and statistical feedback as well as subjective and constructive criticism. Keen to contribute lifelong gaming experience to help create technically sound and incredibly enjoyable titles.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Game Tester
99Games Online Pvt. Ltd.
Udupi
12.2012 - Current
- Contributed to development of high-quality games through meticulous testing and documentation
- Promoted quality assurance best practices within the team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement among fellow testers
- Increased test coverage by creating comprehensive test cases based on game specifications and requirements
- Aided in maintaining accurate release notes by documenting resolved issues, known problems, and completed tasks during each development cycle
- Optimized game performance by conducting thorough regression tests after each update or bug fix
- Assisted in the successful launch of new features by rigorously testing beta versions for bugs and glitches
- Ensured compatibility across multiple platforms by testing games on various devices, operating systems, and configurations
- Participated in daily stand-up meetings to provide updates on progress and discuss potential roadblocks with team members
Quality Control Engineer
Robosoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Udupi
08.2010 - 12.2012
- Creating a Test Plan for the game
- Finding bugs and suggesting improvements for a game
- Performing manual testing for various AAA game titles on Mac.
Education
B. E. (Electronics & Communication) -
BIET
Davanagere 07.2007 - 05.2010
Diploma in E & C -
Bapuji Polytechnic
Davanagere 07.2004 - 05.2007
Skills
Test plan creation and writing Test Cases Execute Test Cases and analyse results
Ensure Beta Testing within the organisation to collect end user feedback
User Experience Evaluation
Cross-platform testing
Performance Testing
Agile Methodology
Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
Training and Onboarding junior testers
Accomplishments
- Branch second topper in Diploma with aggregate percentage of 82.11%.
- Star Chef: Taken complete testing responsibility of $30 million revenue game. QC team consists of only 3 members when it is made global. I'm leading the QC team.
- Given ‘Dhoom:3 The Game' game demo in NGDC, Pune and collected feedback from gaming veterans. This helped the game in polishing it further.
- Attended Casual Connect held at Singapore (sponsored by company) and showcased Star Chef game to gaming veterans.
- Learned build upload to App Store, Play Store, Mac Store, Microsoft Store and Steam Store and single handedly managed this for Star Chef game during game maintenance phase.
- Till now trained 8 QC members and they are now independently handling individual projects.
Projects
Star Chef 2, Star Chef 2 is a unique cooking and restaurant management game!, App Store, Play Store, Mac Store, Microsoft Store, Facebook Gaming, Steam Store, 4.X, https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/star-chef-2-build-restaurant/id1437231181 Star Chef, Star Chef is a unique cooking and restaurant management game!, $30 million, App Store, Play Store, Mac Store, Microsoft Store, Facebook Gaming, Steam Store, 3, 4.X, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codingstartswithc.learnacode
Timeline
Senior Game Tester
99Games Online Pvt. Ltd.
12.2012 - Current
Quality Control Engineer
Robosoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
08.2010 - 12.2012
B. E. (Electronics & Communication) -
BIET
07.2007 - 05.2010
Diploma in E & C -
Bapuji Polytechnic
07.2004 - 05.2007