Experience

• QA Analyst at Epic Games

  Dallas

  February 2022 - October 2023

  Juno - [Special Project]
  
  • Assisted Physics Producer by leading sprint planning and triage, building Burn Down/Burn Up charts to communicate progress toward milestones, and building Jira/Miro dashboards.
  
  • Learned from scratch how to deconstruct Physics features for test planning by analyzing Blueprints and testing in Unreal Editor.
  
  • Self-taught and wrote all Confluence documentation for Physics to support testing, mitigate risk, and support developers with task management through extensive technical writing.
  
  • Reduced scope creep and overall feature load on developers by 30% of the initial workload by communicating risk analysis and mitigation plans at regular Milestones, assessed by complexity, player impact, and open issues by priority and severity.
  
  • Mentored a junior employee by focusing on hard skills development, and liaised with international test groups for efficient round-the-clock coverage.

  Fortnite
  
  • Utilized Miro to track the progress of gameplay features for Chapter 4 Season 2, assess and communicate risk, track testing and development tasks, and provide a visual hub for testing coverage in my absence with proven success while OOTO.
  
  • Wrote test strategy and documentation within Confluence, and supported external testing of multiple shipping features for full SDLC of seasonal content in Seasons 21, 22, and 24.
  
  • Developed test plans and risk assessments of high-value Star Wars IP content.

• Dev QA Analyst at Bethesda Game Studios

  Dallas, TX

  January 2021 - February 2022

  • Performed in-depth analysis of crash and performance data using Visual Studios.
  
  • Tools testing for World Art and training for clutter placement and lighting art support.

• Lead Embedded QA at Bethesda Game Studios (Formerly Escalation Studios)

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  April 2020 - January 2021

  • Leading a small team of testers working across multiple titles.
  
  • Interfacing with multiple Studios on an interdisciplinary level.
  
  • Planning and assessment of future projects alongside Production.
  
  • Projecting risks of slipped goals in relation to QA and their impacts on future development efforts.
  
  • Planning QA efforts in response to sprint projections.
  
  • Working to identify desired areas of growth within the team and helping to enable that success.

• Senior Embedded QA at Bethesda Game Studios (Formerly Escalation Studios)

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  March 2019 - March 2020

  Fallout 76
  
  • Responsible for and organized a small team of testers working across multiple titles.
  
  • Dev QA Liaison between local developers and QA, and external QA.
  
  • Coordination with Art Production toward verifying seasonal asset development and challenges.
  
  • Projected risks of slipped goals in relation to QA and their impacts on future development efforts.
  
  • Planned QA efforts in response to sprint projections.
  
  • Triaged tasks and bugs in conjunction with project stakeholders.

• Embedded QA at Bethesda Game Studios (Formerly Escalation Studios)

  Dallas, TX, United States of America

  February 2018 - March 2019

  Fallout 76
  
  Fallout Shelter
  
  • Acted as stand-in Associate Producer by organizing and conducting internal and external playtests prior to the hiring of a Producer and Associate Producer.
  
  • Attended daily standups, stakeholder meetings, and advised to the capacity of the QA department.
  
  • Facilitated inter studio cooperation in anticipation of external testing needs.
  
  • Trained new testers while managing a full testing workload.
  
  • Documented asset workflow and testing procedures as a handbook used by developers and QA.

• Contract QA Tester at Bethesda Softworks

  Rockville, MD, United States of America

  August 2017 - February 2018

  Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
  
  Creative, burst, compatibility, and directed testing of all systems on all platforms.

• Contract Environment Artist at Corys Thunder Inc

  Jacksonville, FL, United States of America

  August 2016 - March 2017

  • Modeled and textured locomotives, train stations, and trackside elements.
  
  • Integrated outsourced lidar data for a city-scale model of Toronto and Union Station, and cleaned up geometry and textures for over sixty buildings along track corridor to match current generation fidelity.

• Contract QA Tester at Bethesda Softworks

  Rockville, MD, United States of America

  February 2016 - August 2016

  DOOM & Dishonored 2
  
  Creative, burst, compatibility, and directed testing of all systems.

• Technical Artist at Engineering and Computer Simulations

  Orlando, FL, United States of America

  July 2014 - February 2016

  Remastered full library of character models and texture assets for use in a next-gen real-time Unity game environment.

  Contract Technical Artist at Cubic Corporation

• Contract Technical Artist at Cubic

  Orlando, FL, United States of America

  July 2014 - December 2015

  • Product Owner of multiple levels, modeling assets and approving all assets modeled by other team members to be placed in Unreal Engine 4.
  
  • Identified a functional problem with level transitions and developed a solution alongside other departments, by using modular assets with blueprints for a seamless transition between levels.
  
  • Whiteboxing, asset modeling, UV/lightmap creation, and material assignment of game assets for use in US Navy Littoral Combat Ship Courseware within Unreal Engine 4.
  
  • Use of photogrammetry data as modeling reference.
  
  • Interaction with Subject Matter Experts for lesson development and interaction requirements.