Jason Khaleel-Stevens
Twickenham,Middlesex
Summary
An adaptable, detail oriented and highly driven tester with just over 7 years experience in the games industry. Known for collaborating effectively within teams, time management and delivering high quality results in an ever changing fast paced environment. Looking for opportunities to utilise these skills in software testing with a strong desire to learn new skills.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior QA Tester
Rocksteady Studios
London, UK
10.2020 - 09.2024
- Managed internal and external testers to tackle priority issues, update bug tickets and answer task-relevant inquiries
- Taught testers QA practices, methods, and debug tool workflows and became a primary point of contact
- Led teams of 2 to 4 testers through multiplayer playthroughs, managing the workload to ensure deadlines were met by prioritising tasks and flexibly adapting to urgent requests
- Ran single-player playthroughs to cover high priority issue regression, new monthly content, or low reproduction bugs
- Allocated daily playthrough and smoke testing tasks to ensure optimum coverage in collaboration with QA leads and management
- Resolved live issues, including certification and submission problems
- Collaborated with developers across multiple departments to identify bugs, gather relevant debug snapshots, and reproduce issues for live debugging
- Used a wide variety of third party and in-house tools to gather and present additional debug information
- Analysed crash call stacks, including Linux server crashes, to determine cause and ownership
- Diagnosed network issues from client/server logs, such as disconnects, hitches, and service outages
- Promoted rapidly from a starting position of Junior QA Tester due to my relentless approach of getting tasks done efficiently and at the highest quality consistently
Senior Functionality QA Tester
Sega Europe
London, UK
08.2017 - 12.2019
- Ensured that Testcases were created and updated for the needs of the project
- Entered, updated and regressed bugs in the Helix Perforce database
- Managed tasking and queries for multiple teams across multiple platforms as well as tracking their performance
- Manual testing across various platforms
- Attended meetings with Studio directors to discuss the overall state of the project from a QA standpoint
- Took over QA Lead responsibilities in their absence
Education
Higher National Diploma - Music Grade 8 Theory & Performance
Ealing & West London College
London 08.2007 - 07.2009
Accomplishments
- Released a worldwide music EP for Charity
- Currently have a WIP gaming project
Affiliations
- Gaming - very keen on social gaming and in person games - card games etc
- Fitness & Sports - Football, F1 and yoga enthusiast
- Composing - Creating contrapuntal music using an audio station
- Writing - currently writing a narrative for an RPG game
References
References available upon request.
Skills
- Leading a team of testers through cooperative test plan execution and its associated
workload - Training and mentoring fellow team members to achieve high-quality results through practical
learning in parallel with daily tasking - Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team of internal and external developers and testers to identify issues and gather debug
- Operating within an Agile framework, with practical experience on a Scrumban project and theoretical knowledge of Scrum and Kanban
- Providing constructive feedback from the perspective of an end-user to developers and directors, and as a tester to QA managers regarding internal testing processes
- Debugging a wide variety of issues using a range of software, such as Visual Studio, client/server logs, console GDK tools, reading C++ call stacks, and specialised in-house debug
- Entering, updating, and regressing bugs in project management tools such as Jira and Helix
- Writing and maintaining test plans, test cases, and test scripts in test management platforms such as TestRail
- Evolving with the fast-paced, ever-changing requirements of large-scale software development
- Communicating clearly and concisely both verbally and through text
- Acquiring new skills and familiarity with software quickly and competently
Timeline
Senior QA Tester
Rocksteady Studios
10.2020 - 09.2024
Senior Functionality QA Tester
Sega Europe
08.2017 - 12.2019
Higher National Diploma - Music Grade 8 Theory & Performance
Ealing & West London College
08.2007 - 07.2009
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