As Quality Lead for the Wargaming Sydney studio, I am responsible for setting overall quality strategy, ensuring its execution and the overall development team’s product quality. Other expectations include, ensuring teams are continously improving at delivering quality, improving quality specialist team members’ adaptive performance, direct coaching of quality specialists, promoting inter-team communication and skill transfer, and collaboration with remote studios relating to product delivery and management of test resources.

• Defined and executed studio quality strategy.
• Re-invigorated quality specialists team’s engagement and significantly increased adaptive performance measures.
• Direct management of embedded quality specialist employees across eight concurrently developed products.
• Quality improvement strategies created for product teams, with successful outcomes of action plans.

Responsible for a large variety of duties including release management, coaching programmers to perform all testing tasks in the software testing life-cycle, providing mentorship to quality specialists, managing test equipment and resources, test automation and developing our in-house test framework.

• Successfully completed implementation of Quality Assistance software development practice, providing valuable information about viability within the company.
• Performed Release Management for various Wargaming Sydney products, including World of Tanks, World of Tanks: Blitz, World of Warships and BigWorld Engine.
• Drove transformational change to Shift-left, agile testing within the Server Group as head of Wargaming Sydney Quality Community.
• On-site co-development with external international customers, providing deep technical knowledge of BigWorld Server software.
• Significantly improved Python performance test framework for BigWorld Server.
• Wrote tools to aid in test execution, such as log parsers and semi-automated performance tests.

Design and execution of test plans and test cases for World of Tanks/Warships, BigWorld Engine and other products. Defect tracking and liaising with software developers to resolve issues. Sole responsibility for performance test design and execution for BigWorld Server. Delivery of Test Summary Reports to external stakeholders.

Oversaw production of various game titles, including Rugby League Live 2: World Cup. Worked with development studios to achieve production goals, milestones and deliverables. Processed game certifcation for Sony and Microsoft and performed content submissions.

Performed software testing of Rugby League Live 2 and many other titles

Developed levels and provided game design for escapeVektor, 3DS