Sam Dutton
GUILDFORD,Surrey
Summary
Experienced QA professional with strong history of performing in QA departments across a variety of platforms and genres.
I’m looking for lead and QA manager roles, along with assistant/associate producer, junior project manager and scrum master roles.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work history
Senior QA Analyst
DPS Games
GUILDFORD, Surrey
10.2020 - 09.2025
- Planning test strategy and directing QA test passes throughout the project timeline.
- Directing day to day testing and tasks for an external QA team.
- Mentoring and onboarding newer members of the QA team.
- Communicating project health and concerns via dashboards to production and executive levels.
- Prepping and hosting regular studio wide internal playtests.
- Assisting project manager and producer with day to day activities such as daily stand up, bug triages, and communication with external dev partners.
Lead QA
Playsport Games
GUILDFORD, Surrey
06.2018 - 10.2020
- Helped produce, write, and host a dev diary twitch stream with colleagues.
- Sole internal QA tester providing local QA support and liaising with an external QA team.
- Communicating with public beta testers and relaying information back to developers.
- Reviewing and replying to customer queries post launch.
- Providing feedback on software features and design.
QA Tester - QA Analyst II
Electronic Arts
GUILDFORD, Surrey
04.2005 - 03.2018
- Promoted from contractor to permanent position. In addition, promoted through various analyst grades.
- Produced test strategies and planned test passes throughout a projects’ lifetime.
- Reported to executives and senior management the status of testing and any blocking defects.
- Via risk based testing (RBT) used historical data to direct testing.
- Owner of testing a feature of a game via a remote QA team and some hands on testing.
- Conducted pre launch checks prior to the game going live and communicated status, blockers etc to all relevant parties.
Football Statistician
Opta Sportsdata
London
10.2004 - 04.2005
- Worked as part of a team recording key football information during live broadcasts
- Successfully communicated in play football actions to colleagues via verbal commentary
- Data entry of real time actions into the company's database.
Education
BSc (Hons) - Sports Science
University of Chichester
Chichester, West Sussex2004
A-Levels -
Halliford School
Shepperton, Surrey2001
GCSEs -
Halliford School
Shepperton, Surrey1999
Skills
- Certified Scrum Master via Scrum Alliance
- Day to day experience in Jira, Confluence, Word, Excel, TestRail, Hansoft, Powerpoint
- Jenkins and Perforce
- Game engine experience in Unreal, Unity and Frostbite
- Logical thinking and problem solving
- Working in scrum agile methodology
- Manual Testing
- Communication/Reporting
- Test case writing and maintenance
- Planning
- Data review and interpretation
Interests
Hobbies include watching and playing football, cinema, video games, board/miniature games and visiting various historical places of interests and national beauty.
Timeline
Senior QA Analyst
DPS Games
10.2020 - 09.2025
Lead QA
Playsport Games
06.2018 - 10.2020
QA Tester - QA Analyst II
Electronic Arts
04.2005 - 03.2018
Football Statistician
Opta Sportsdata
10.2004 - 04.2005
BSc (Hons) - Sports Science
University of Chichester
A-Levels -
Halliford School
GCSEs -
Halliford School