Vetted Test Planning Professionals

“Game QA Lead/embedded QA with live production experience supporting a public alpha, owning narrative/early-game content quality and quest progression stability. Known for driving rapid resolution of high-impact blockers via consistent repros, cross-discipline coordination, and data-backed reporting (including bot-based success/failure measurement), while maintaining sprint-aligned test plans and documentation in JIRA/Confluence and leading developer playtests for gameplay feel/polish.”

“Game QA lead with 20+ years of tooling and workflow experience, most recently leading QA on a Unity-based MLB mobile title with annual releases and major feature updates. Led QA for the PS Vita port of Borderlands 2 focused on technical requirements, performance, and usability, including making a key ship-risk call to limit multiplayer players. Known for disciplined Jira/TestRail administration, strong cross-functional communication, and uncovering critical submission-blocking issues with clear evidence and repro steps.”

“QA professional with ~7 years of experience working in Scrum teams, involved from requirements and user story creation through test strategy/planning, execution, defect triage in Jira, and verification. Highlighted catching multiple issues early on an AI-driven project to avoid production regressions and escalating a blocker where a frequently used UI was broken to get it fixed quickly. Has not shipped an AAA game title.”

Brandon Kraus

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Senior Game QA & Open-World Content Specialist in AAA and live-service titles

Lexington, KY17y exp

“Game QA specialist with experience across major studios and titles including EverQuest II expansions (tradeskill/content focus), Zynga Farmville (sole QA in a pod), and Rockstar (mission/scripting-related testing under NDA). Known for player-first exploratory testing and rigorous negative testing, plus building Excel-based tracking/automation to manage hundreds of items and producing high-quality bug reports with video/log evidence.”

colton childrey

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Senior QA Leader specializing in AAA games, XR platforms, and backend systems

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Game/interactive software QA professional with experience spanning AAA titles (Activision Black Ops 3; Halo 4/Forge) and VR at Meta (The World Beyond). Notable for modernizing QA operations at Lego BrickLink Studio by implementing Testmo and dramatically increasing test coverage and user satisfaction, plus quickly diagnosing and unblocking a critical public-launch issue caused by misconfigured gatekeeper flags.”

“Search/backend engineer with hands-on experience improving Apache Solr-based search systems end-to-end (indexing strategy changes, ETL updates, and Java/Spring Boot Search API work). Demonstrated production rigor with QA partnership, A/B testing, and rollback-safe kill switches, plus measurable product impact (e.g., +1.5% add-to-cart) and operational troubleshooting including traffic/security mitigation.”

“Built an emergency drone-pilot dispatch platform for fire departments, law enforcement, and FEMA, owning it end-to-end from product concept through iOS app, backend dispatch logic, and ongoing iteration. Particularly strong in designing mission-critical, regulation-aware workflows that combine FAA/LAANC compliance, geolocation, flight planning, and even autonomy/computer-vision systems into a reliable operational product.”

“Robotics software candidate with hands-on experience building a self-balancing, Segway-like robotic ambulator by deriving and iteratively improving the full dynamics model (including bearing losses, BLDC back-EMF, and accurate COM estimation). Has practical ROS/ROS2 exposure (tf2, RViz, rosbag2, slam_toolbox) plus Gazebo/Simulink simulation and Turtlebot vision-based obstacle avoidance using ROS + MATLAB.”

“Game QA professional with live production ownership on New World Aeternum (progression-driven connected rewards spanning UI, backend tracking, and live tuning) and experience on God of War Ragnarok. Emphasizes risk-based test planning, strong cross-functional triage grounded in player impact/live risk, and highly actionable Jira/TestRail practices (PAL titles, traceability, video/log evidence) to speed resolution and reduce late-cycle churn.”

Carlos Morales

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Director-level QA Manager specializing in AAA game testing, live services, and VR worlds

San Francisco, CA16y exp

“Game QA professional with ~5 years in embedded QA roles across major studios (Experis Game Solutions, Activision, Ubisoft, Meta), including ownership of the Weapons feature area on Ubisoft’s XDefiant and feature testing on Warzone. Known for risk-based, cross-system test coverage (matchmaking/party, progression, entitlements/MTX, performance across PC/console, live-service integrations) and for leading cross-discipline meetings and release readiness reviews.”