Pranav Agnihotri
Edinburgh,Scotland
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work history
Technical QA Analyst
Build A Rocket Boy
Edinburgh
12.2024 - 05.2026
- Worked primarily on performance console testing laying emphasis on Xbox.
- Also did PC and PS5 testing when needed.
- Have extensive experience in perforce, unreal engine and team city, shelving and unshelving builds, getting utraces for performance tracking.
- Updating documentation page regularly on confluence, catering to demands of stakeholders.
- Guiding team of testers when needed, particularly when doing performance testing.
- Have logged bugs in JIRA regularly.
- Working on automation too.
Senior QA Tester
Electronic Arts (EA)
Southam
07.2020 - 10.2024
- Highest Bug Count: Have the highest bug count across all games over the specified time period. Found critical and major issues on a regular basis.
- Found heap of minor issues too which helped in overall polishing of the game.
- Worked on AAA titles including Grid, Dirt, Need for Speed and Apex Legends.
- I despite being in senior role, didn't mind entering issues on JIRA myself and I believed in leading by example.
- Training: Trained the QA staff regularly. Guided them on how to test the game, helped them correct any mistakes, I found in their bug report, basically, acted as a mentor to them.
- Management: When my manager was away or busy, gave work to team as big as forty testers. Assigned duties and divided work among all testers.
- Interacted with people from other pods and departments, when encountering issues, which further enhanced my inter-personal communication skills.
- I collaborated with team from other countries like Romania and USA, which helped me broaden my horizon and gave me a better perspective and exposure on day to day tasks.
- Automation: Used scripty tool to automate test cases in regards to Apex Legends. Worked with team from USA and Romania.
- Lead from the front and produced new scripts and had great success in automating many test cases, which helped in taking automation to the new direction with regards to Apex Legends.
- Meetings: Regular meetings with senior staff including managers, directors and staff from other countries including Romania and USA.
- Prepared Test cases: Create test suites in absence of seniors, according to requirements of the build.
- Build info report: Gave build info report to all departments before work day when colleagues from other departments were away.
- Thus, had willingness to share the duty on absences from other pods.
- Hand-off report: Submitted hand-off report when my manager was away for my QA pod.
- Perforce software: To get builds for additional testing before everybody else.
QA Tester
Codemasters
Southam
04.2013 - 06.2020
- Highest Bug Count: Have the highest bug count across all games over the specified time period. Found critical and major issues on a regular basis.
- Found heaps of minor issues too, which helped in overall polishing of the game.
- Worked on AAA titles including Grid, Dirt.
- Created Invoices: Created invoices, covering cyclic costs, overhead resource cost, equipment costs etc and made Gantt charts and excel sheets to plan out the cost estimation for shipping equipment to studios in India.
- Worked with Dev team: I worked with dev team on specific occasions when dealing with critical issues like hangs and crashes.
- I collaborated with them when needed and helped to solve critical issues we encountered, while testing the game.
Tester
BT Group
York
04.2012 - 07.2012
- Worked in my group project for my masters of science in software engineering for BT Group.
- Made test cases for code and made sure the test cases are relevant to the project, as well making sure the code works correctly in Java programming language.
Timeline
Technical QA Analyst
Build A Rocket Boy
12.2024 - 05.2026
Senior QA Tester
Electronic Arts (EA)
07.2020 - 10.2024
QA Tester
Codemasters
04.2013 - 06.2020
Tester
BT Group
04.2012 - 07.2012