George Gabriel Tarzioriu
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Romanian Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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Fabio P.
Gabriel is a source of trust. While this should be enough, I must say he is one of the best QA professionals I had the pleasure to work with closely. He has a caring and humble personality, inspires trust amongst everyone around him. While at FunPlus, Gabriel drove many initiatives that went beyond the usual QA duties, creating processes, facilitating our teams' retrospectives, making sure everyone felt heard and comfortable to share our thoughts. He has a keen eye for what feels right, always sharing great insights from different perspectives that really raised the quality of our projects. A fantastic talent and person I'd enjoy working with again!
Simas Budrys
Wonders like Gabriel aren’t easy to come by in the industry. It's been my second time working together in a different company, and throughout these 2 last years working at FunPlus Gabriel has once again become an irreplaceable force that keeps things moving. He has unquestionable professional integrity, delivering to his commitments with great sense of care and responsibility, while being mature and realistic. In his role, Gabriel has been responsible for working with multiple development teams: helping them reach a higher quality bar with their day to day tasks, planning and executing all QA-related activities, and helping teams with their processes. He’s also been happy to help with many studio issues: from leading meetings, to planning studio’s QA outsourcing strategy, to taking on a huge challenge leading one the tech teams. He’s not afraid of tackling issues outside of his comfort zone, taking personal initiative in learning new things, not hesitating to ask for support when needed. Gabriel’s the kind of person that just loves to help people around him and this attitude inspires others, bringing teams closer together. Being a very caring, friendly, and humble personality Gabriel has a great pulse of people he works with. I’ve always seen him being much more than the his official role in the studio, doing sweet the extra bits, making sure everyone around him feels comfortable, productive, understood, and having a sense of belonging. He’s been that friend his teammates needed, on top of his stellar work, which made it very easy to work with him, and someone that I’ll dearly miss. I’d absolutely love working with Gabriel in the future, and I know any team will be over the moon having him.
Fabio P.
Gabriel is a source of trust. While this should be enough, I must say he is one of the best QA professionals I had the pleasure to work with closely. He has a caring and humble personality, inspires trust amongst everyone around him. While at FunPlus, Gabriel drove many initiatives that went beyond the usual QA duties, creating processes, facilitating our teams' retrospectives, making sure everyone felt heard and comfortable to share our thoughts. He has a keen eye for what feels right, always sharing great insights from different perspectives that really raised the quality of our projects. A fantastic talent and person I'd enjoy working with again!
Simas Budrys
Wonders like Gabriel aren’t easy to come by in the industry. It's been my second time working together in a different company, and throughout these 2 last years working at FunPlus Gabriel has once again become an irreplaceable force that keeps things moving. He has unquestionable professional integrity, delivering to his commitments with great sense of care and responsibility, while being mature and realistic. In his role, Gabriel has been responsible for working with multiple development teams: helping them reach a higher quality bar with their day to day tasks, planning and executing all QA-related activities, and helping teams with their processes. He’s also been happy to help with many studio issues: from leading meetings, to planning studio’s QA outsourcing strategy, to taking on a huge challenge leading one the tech teams. He’s not afraid of tackling issues outside of his comfort zone, taking personal initiative in learning new things, not hesitating to ask for support when needed. Gabriel’s the kind of person that just loves to help people around him and this attitude inspires others, bringing teams closer together. Being a very caring, friendly, and humble personality Gabriel has a great pulse of people he works with. I’ve always seen him being much more than the his official role in the studio, doing sweet the extra bits, making sure everyone around him feels comfortable, productive, understood, and having a sense of belonging. He’s been that friend his teammates needed, on top of his stellar work, which made it very easy to work with him, and someone that I’ll dearly miss. I’d absolutely love working with Gabriel in the future, and I know any team will be over the moon having him.
Fabio P.
Gabriel is a source of trust. While this should be enough, I must say he is one of the best QA professionals I had the pleasure to work with closely. He has a caring and humble personality, inspires trust amongst everyone around him. While at FunPlus, Gabriel drove many initiatives that went beyond the usual QA duties, creating processes, facilitating our teams' retrospectives, making sure everyone felt heard and comfortable to share our thoughts. He has a keen eye for what feels right, always sharing great insights from different perspectives that really raised the quality of our projects. A fantastic talent and person I'd enjoy working with again!
Simas Budrys
Wonders like Gabriel aren’t easy to come by in the industry. It's been my second time working together in a different company, and throughout these 2 last years working at FunPlus Gabriel has once again become an irreplaceable force that keeps things moving. He has unquestionable professional integrity, delivering to his commitments with great sense of care and responsibility, while being mature and realistic. In his role, Gabriel has been responsible for working with multiple development teams: helping them reach a higher quality bar with their day to day tasks, planning and executing all QA-related activities, and helping teams with their processes. He’s also been happy to help with many studio issues: from leading meetings, to planning studio’s QA outsourcing strategy, to taking on a huge challenge leading one the tech teams. He’s not afraid of tackling issues outside of his comfort zone, taking personal initiative in learning new things, not hesitating to ask for support when needed. Gabriel’s the kind of person that just loves to help people around him and this attitude inspires others, bringing teams closer together. Being a very caring, friendly, and humble personality Gabriel has a great pulse of people he works with. I’ve always seen him being much more than the his official role in the studio, doing sweet the extra bits, making sure everyone around him feels comfortable, productive, understood, and having a sense of belonging. He’s been that friend his teammates needed, on top of his stellar work, which made it very easy to work with him, and someone that I’ll dearly miss. I’d absolutely love working with Gabriel in the future, and I know any team will be over the moon having him.
Fabio P.
Gabriel is a source of trust. While this should be enough, I must say he is one of the best QA professionals I had the pleasure to work with closely. He has a caring and humble personality, inspires trust amongst everyone around him. While at FunPlus, Gabriel drove many initiatives that went beyond the usual QA duties, creating processes, facilitating our teams' retrospectives, making sure everyone felt heard and comfortable to share our thoughts. He has a keen eye for what feels right, always sharing great insights from different perspectives that really raised the quality of our projects. A fantastic talent and person I'd enjoy working with again!
Simas Budrys
Wonders like Gabriel aren’t easy to come by in the industry. It's been my second time working together in a different company, and throughout these 2 last years working at FunPlus Gabriel has once again become an irreplaceable force that keeps things moving. He has unquestionable professional integrity, delivering to his commitments with great sense of care and responsibility, while being mature and realistic. In his role, Gabriel has been responsible for working with multiple development teams: helping them reach a higher quality bar with their day to day tasks, planning and executing all QA-related activities, and helping teams with their processes. He’s also been happy to help with many studio issues: from leading meetings, to planning studio’s QA outsourcing strategy, to taking on a huge challenge leading one the tech teams. He’s not afraid of tackling issues outside of his comfort zone, taking personal initiative in learning new things, not hesitating to ask for support when needed. Gabriel’s the kind of person that just loves to help people around him and this attitude inspires others, bringing teams closer together. Being a very caring, friendly, and humble personality Gabriel has a great pulse of people he works with. I’ve always seen him being much more than the his official role in the studio, doing sweet the extra bits, making sure everyone around him feels comfortable, productive, understood, and having a sense of belonging. He’s been that friend his teammates needed, on top of his stellar work, which made it very easy to work with him, and someone that I’ll dearly miss. I’d absolutely love working with Gabriel in the future, and I know any team will be over the moon having him.
Experience
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GOALS
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United Kingdom
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Sports Teams and Clubs
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1 - 100 Employee
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QA & Release Manager
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Mar 2023 - Present
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FunPlus
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Switzerland
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Computer Games
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200 - 300 Employee
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Studio Test Lead
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Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
QA Leadership: 🅞 Establishing the long and short term QA Strategy for all Studio Operations (2 game teams & 1 shared shared tech team) 🅞 Defining clear vision, roadmap and deliverables for the QA Organisation 🅞 Setting up Ways of Working and Best Practices when working with Quality 🅞 Implementing Release Processes and Checklists to ensure efficiency, reliability and reducing bottlenecks 🅞 Coaching and empowering developers to have a Quality First Mindset 🅞 Close collaboration with Studio Stakeholders to ensure alignment and efficiency 🅞 Organizing engaging Team Test and PlayTest sessions on a team, studio or company level 🅞 Facilitated Backlog Grooming meetings 🅞 Setting up external testing processes and securing deal with QA Contractor company 🅞 Leading high priority incident task forces to mitigate and investigate major issue 🅞 Leading the Automation Future Plans 🅞 Device Manager: In charge of all mobile device acquisitions and inventory to make sure all projects and needs are covered 🅞 Hands on support in all testing matters Agile Coach & Product Owner: 🅞 Setting up JIRA projects and Workflows 🅞 Retrospective Facilitator for all Studio teams - Coming up with engaging formats and encouraging transparency, feedback sharing, along with setting action points based on discussions 🅞 Planning Facilitator 🅞 Evangelize Agile Best Practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, product vision, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training 🅞 Champion cultural change, collaboration with other roles on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's evolution 🅞 Created a step by step process Onboarding with relevant information about Studio Operations to get newcomers started 🅞 Spearheading Team Health Checks & Mental Wellness initiatives by developing various workshops to encourage honest and free communication
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King
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United States
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Spectator Sports
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Embedded QA Analyst - Candy Crush Soda
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Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Coaching, Organising & Testing:🅞 Coaching the team to become autonomous following the principles and practices of Agile Testing🅞 Actively working with the QA Community on how to create a strong team culture 🅞 Translating high level objectives into steps to achieve required deliverables & ensure the provision of effective and timely solutions🅞 Identifying the scope of a release, pinpointing problematic areas and ensuring that sufficient resources/time are allocated to these areas 🅞 Demonstrating technical expertise through adopting a proactive approach to problem solving, issue resolution and the identification of new approaches🅞 Contributing to the team's effectiveness by actively working on improving the Ways of Working and best practices🅞 Reviewing technical requirements, design documents and creating test plans🅞 Working with risked based methodology to prioritise regression test cases🅞 Managing QA backlog and ensuring boards are updated and reflect the current state of the project🅞 Organising internal PlayTest sessions to check the sanity and the quality level of the product🅞 Live monitoring user feedback and creating complete summaries about how the game features are being welcomed by the consumers as well as giving my own feedback🅞 Performing Exploratory Testing and reporting test results with clear, concise and descriptive defect reports🅞 Encouraging effective communication, share of opinions and honest feedback within the team 🅞 Being actively involved in the high priority incident task forces to mitigate and investigate major Live issuesWorking in Agile environment:🅞 Advocating for Quality Assistance instead of Assurance 🅞 Working on a sprint-based schedule to deliver Quality Assistance🅞 Being actively involved in Retrospective and Planning meetings with insightful notes🅞 Facilitating Standup, Backlog refinement, Planning and Retro meetings if necessary
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Senior Embedded QA Analyst - Publishing: Legend of Solgard
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Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
🅞 Working on site with the award-winning studio, Snowprint🅞 Supported the Publishing division to hard launch the first mid-core title published by King🅞 Provided QA Assistance on site for the development team and coordinated testing areas for the off-site analysts 🅞 Facilitated communication between multiple studios and acted as point of contact in regards to testing procedures, game design questions and future update plans🅞 Managed the backlog and prepared/wrote testing documentation for internal and external use🅞 Helped the team define the QA role and what characteristics a perfect candidate should possess Gaming Industry Extras:🅞 Deep understanding of casual and mid-core mobile genre🅞 Being actively involved in brainstorming and ideation meetings related to Game Design & Art 🅞 Experience in building levels for casual match-3 or linker type of games 🅞 Vast knowledge in gaming industry trends. Capable of doing comprehensive analysis of different game features, mechanics and ways to monetise for both AAA and mobiles games 🅞 Passionate about UI/UX Design and User psychology. Capable of coming up with creative ideas and visually present them
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Embedded QA Analyst: RoyalGames.com & Blossom Blast Saga
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Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
🅞 Supporting King’s largest platform for Competitive Skill Gaming, Royalgames.com🅞 Testing the entire catalogue of Online games (released & in-development). Working closely with the development team to identify the root cause of issues discovered during the QA process and address them🅞 Working in a fast paced environment and handling multiple small projects in parallel 🅞 Front End testing on Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome & Mobile testing on iOS, Android, Amazon and Windows 🅞 Reporting detailed bug descriptions and working with developers to prioritise the defects 🅞 Maintaining and running bots to stress test the web games. Analysing/Interpreting the data generated and forwarding it to relevant devs🅞 Performing various Charles and Anti-cheating tests to make sure players are not able to cheat in skill games 🅞 Performing and mentoring Session-Based Testing within the company🅞 Mind mapping testing scenarios 🅞 Supporting the release of the Facebook version of Blossom Blast Saga as well as any subsequent release for the game as a Live Service🅞 Actively working with the QA Community on how to create a strong team culture and improve QA practicesWorking in Agile environment:🅞 Working on a sprint-based schedule to deliver Quality Assistance🅞 Being actively involved in Sprint retrospective and Sprint planning meetings🅞 Helping the Test Lead to estimate the QA time for distinctive parts of the project
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QA Analyst
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Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
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Electronic Arts (EA)
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United States
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Entertainment Providers
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior QA Tester
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Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
🅞 Reviewing technical requirements, design documents and preparing/creating test plans and checklists for the on-going projects🅞 Ensuring that all of the test cases are properly updated, along with the test plan🅞 Efficient time management so that the release candidate is ready for delivery before deadlines🅞 Identifying and escalating issues/concerns that interfere with the project goals🅞 Providing assistance and guidance based on extensive experience to other team members when needed🅞 Live monitoring user feedback and creating complete summaries about how the game features are being welcomed by the consumers as well as giving my own feedback🅞 Testing Asynchronous and Synchronous multiplayer features on mobile devices🅞 Mentoring junior testers with an inclination towards Technical Testing & Methodologies🅞 Team management, including Status Reports & Daily Tasks 🅞 Providing clear and accurate progress and status reports🅞 Assisting in organizing and leading small task forces of testers for testing specific features🅞 Advanced knowledge on JIRA, Hansoft and DevTrack databases🅞 Assisting the team even during weekends & bank holidays
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QA Tester
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Nov 2011 - Sep 2012
🅞 Testing builds starting from the Pre-Alfa phase to the Release candidate🅞 Flagging software issues for mobile device applications and reporting them in the data base (JIRA, DevTrack)🅞 Providing precise information and descriptive behaviour of issues when logging 🅞 Debugging and installation procedures for platforms such as: iOS, Android, Amazon, Windows🅞 Regressing issues 🅞 Executing test cases according to EA's Test Case Management System 🅞 Occasionally sending reports to Managers regarding the testing coverage🅞 Self-improving based on feedback received from the project's lead
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Education
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2013 - 2015
Universitatea „Titu Maiorescu”
Psychology
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