Experience

Space Ape Games

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Live Operations Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  - Running events and promotions on the project to engage, delight and excite players long term, mitigating churn as best as possible and encouraging longer term retention- Designing and helping create new content and features to work into the pipeline for the project, ensuring it feels fresh- Assessing problems with the project by working with the Analytics and community teams, using data and working to fix those problems and improve the project's overall health, from bug fixes to balancing issues and economy-based problems, as well as KPIs, responding to the needs of the player-base and the game's "ecosystem"- Construction of long term roadmaps for a project so that there is always something interesting around the corner for players to look forward to and chase year-on-year- Presenting confidence-boosting KPI statistics to company leaders and interpreting the data and responding to queries or concerns about the project

• QA Tester

  • Apr 2015 - Sep 2017

  - Liaising with product, development, project management and internal / external QA to help deliver quality releases every sprint at a high velocity.- Working closely with the Live Operations team to assess, scope, lock down, test and release a constant flow of content for users, alongside following active sprints.- Manual testing, reporting and regression testing of issues in all components of free to play mobile games on a range of devices across multiple platforms in a live environment.- Writing/amending test plans, Confluence documentation, retrospectives and implementation of / improving processes both within QA and in the game team.



Odobo

• Gibraltar
• Gambling Facilities and Casinos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manual Games QA Engineer

  • May 2013 - Jun 2014

  - Liasing with producers, development, project management in internal and external teams. - Manual testing, reporting and regressing of issues in all components of online casino game clients, engines, addendum documents and database schemas on a range of devices across multiple platforms in an online environment. - Conducting 3rd-party-developed certification and marketplace submission reviews for games. - Writing/amending test suites, Mind Maps, Confluence tutorials and processes for projects. - Presenting confidence building demos of QA tested game engines alongside developers to project management, business, production, and design departments.



PopCap Games

• United States
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manual Mobile QA Tester

  • Aug 2010 - Sep 2012

  • Liaising with Design, Engineering, Art and Project Management during development. • Testing all components of games such as critically acclaimed Bejewelled, Plants vs. Zombies, and BAFTA winning Peggle HD for functional, compatibility and terminology issues on a range of various current mobile platforms such as Android and Apple. • Performing/ helping to refine tests that are run on said devices • Writing and amending test plans for game projects • Liaising with Design, Engineering, Art and Project Management during development. • Testing all components of games such as critically acclaimed Bejewelled, Plants vs. Zombies, and BAFTA winning Peggle HD for functional, compatibility and terminology issues on a range of various current mobile platforms such as Android and Apple. • Performing/ helping to refine tests that are run on said devices • Writing and amending test plans for game projects



PopCap Games

• United States
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manual Mobile QA Tester

  • Aug 2008 - Jan 2009

  • Finding, reporting, and regressing bugs and issues for games on various J2ME devices • Performing/ helping to refine tests that are run on said devices • Collaborating with engineers and the localisation department in order to resolve issues on projects • Finding, reporting, and regressing bugs and issues for games on various J2ME devices • Performing/ helping to refine tests that are run on said devices • Collaborating with engineers and the localisation department in order to resolve issues on projects



Keywords Studios

• Ireland
• Computer Games
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manual QA Localisation Tester

  • Apr 2008 - Jul 2008

  • Finding, reporting, and regressing bugs and issues for games on various devices • Localising projects, ensuring that each project is correctly localised/translated for European-English-speaking countries • Finding, reporting, and regressing bugs and issues for games on various devices • Localising projects, ensuring that each project is correctly localised/translated for European-English-speaking countries



Vivendi

• France
• Entertainment Providers
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Manual QA Localisation Tester

  • May 2007 - Oct 2007

  • Finding, reporting, and regressing bugs and issues for games on various devices • Performing and helping to refine tests that are run on said devices • Localising projects, ensuring that each project is correctly localised/translated for European-English-speaking countries • Finding, reporting, and regressing bugs and issues for games on various devices • Performing and helping to refine tests that are run on said devices • Localising projects, ensuring that each project is correctly localised/translated for European-English-speaking countries



Vivendi

• France
• Entertainment Providers
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Manual QA Localisation tester

  • Jul 2006 - Aug 2006

  • Finding, reporting, and regressing bugs and issues for games on various devices • Performing and helping to refine tests that are run on said devices • Localising projects, ensuring that each project is correctly localised/translated for European-English-speaking countries • Finding, reporting, and regressing bugs and issues for games on various devices • Performing and helping to refine tests that are run on said devices • Localising projects, ensuring that each project is correctly localised/translated for European-English-speaking countries