Jayesh Thombare
Quality Control Specialist I
Pune
Summary
Gaming industry professional with 4 years of experience in mobile QA testing and Xbox platform compliance, with a strong foundation in defect tracking, audit documentation, and JIRA workflows. Building expertise in Linux administration and cloud infrastructure through hands-on practice in RedHat/CentOS and AWS, actively pursuing RHCSA and AWS Cloud Practitioner certifications. Passionate about applying a process-driven, detail-oriented background to IT operations and cloud support roles.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Control Specialist I
Ubisoft
01.2024 - Current
- Conducted systematic build validation and policy compliance reviews across game certification pipelines, identifying violations, and coordinating resolution with developer teams across release cycles.
- Acted as a technical liaison between internal compliance teams and external game developers, translating platform certification requirements into actionable technical changes, ensuring on-time, policy-compliant releases.
- Maintained detailed audit trails, compliance reports, and structured documentation for all certification cases, following strict traceability and accountability standards.
- Managed end-to-end incident and case tracking using JIRA, handling the ticket lifecycle from creation to closure, including escalations, SLA monitoring, and status reporting.
- Operated Microsoft/Xbox enterprise portals and internal dashboards to monitor certification status, track build submissions, and validate platform-level data integrity.
- Created and maintained SOPs and knowledge base articles on SharePoint/Confluence to standardize compliance review processes across the team.
- Analyzed and reported compliance metrics using Excel-based reporting, identifying trends in policy violations, and recurring developer errors to drive process improvements.
Junior QA Tester — Mobile Games
Ubisoft
03.2022 - 01.2024
- Executed functional, regression, and smoke testing on Android and iOS game builds across pre-production and live environments, ensuring release-ready quality standards.
- Identified, documented, and tracked defects through the full lifecycle, from reproduction steps to verification, using structured bug reporting workflows.
- Performed cross-platform compatibility testing across multiple Android and iOS devices, validating consistent behavior across OS versions and screen configurations.
- Validated both unreleased builds (pre-launch regression cycles) and live production builds (post-release patches and hotfixes), maintaining detailed test logs for each cycle.
- Collaborated with developers to reproduce and isolate issues, providing clear technical documentation to accelerate resolution turnaround.
Education
B.com -
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Pune 04.2001 -
Skills
JIRA
Bug tracking & defect lifecycle
Technical Documentation & SOPs
Stakeholder communication
Cross-Platform Testing (Android/iOS)
Release & Certification Pipeline Awareness
Linux Fundamentals - RedHat/CentOS (RHCSA Pursuing)
AWS Cloud Fundamentals (Cloud Practitioner - Pursuing)
Projects
Linux User Management & Audit Script - Built a Bash script on RedHat/CentOS to automate user creation, group assignment, and audit log generation simulating real Linux admin workflows. Applied user management commands and file logging to produce timestamped audit trails.
Tools: Linux (CentOS), Bash, Git & GitHub.
Additional Information
Language - English, Hindi, Marathi.
Pursuing Certifications in - RHCSA, AWS Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
Quality Control Specialist I
Ubisoft
01.2024 - Current
Junior QA Tester — Mobile Games
Ubisoft
03.2022 - 01.2024
B.com -
Savitribai Phule Pune University
04.2001 -