Ashutosh Khatavkar

About

AAA game QA professional from Ubisoft (For Honor) with deep live-service multiplayer experience. Known for owning network/competitive integrity risks and building a custom network simulation tool to reliably reproduce desync issues, accelerating debugging and saving 100+ hours. Strong end-to-end QA process skills spanning test planning, triage, regression, and release verification using JIRA/TestRail.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• End-to-end QA ownership across full dev cycle for a live multiplayer AAA title
• Early involvement in feature kickoff to catch requirement gaps before implementation
• Built a custom network simulation tool to reproduce P2P sync issues (saved 100+ hours)
• High-quality, actionable bug reporting with strong evidence (side-by-side videos, logs, exact conditions)
• Deep expertise in multiplayer/network quality risks and competitive integrity
• Disciplined JIRA/TestRail workflow hygiene (clean states, verification before closure, traceability)
• Systematic regression strategy (tagged/targeted suites; maintains tests alongside feature changes)

Reference Highlights

• Consistent performer who achieved goals and objectives
• Proactive in raising valid concerns and highlighting risks
• Strong testing mindset and skills
• Proactive, consistent communication with stakeholders
• Developed expert knowledge in some features
• Served as point of contact (POC) for key features
• Helped others by resolving doubts/queries and running sessions for wider audiences
• Collaborated effectively with developers/designers to improve quality
• Strong at reproducing difficult/low-repro issues to reduce noise and aid root-cause finding
• High-quality bug reports (rated 4.5/5)
• Clearly explained defect impact across affected areas
• Maintained test cases to reflect latest design and prevent invalid bugs
• Quickly updated test cases when issues were marked invalid/as-designed
• Able to find complex issues with hard-to-reproduce steps
• Effective at negotiating when issues were marked incorrectly by providing more supporting data
• Great addition to the QA team
• Excellent understanding of game features and systems
• Creative and innovative in testing approach
• Thinks outside standard testing methods
• Finds issues others would miss
• Proactive thinker
• Dependable and effective tester
• Technical expertise
• Precise, detailed bug documentation that reduces back-and-forth
• Strong collaboration with developers and designers
• Catches critical edge cases early, reducing release risk
• Drives high-impact issues through fix within the same sprint
• Creates clear, thorough test plans and checklists
• Enables reliable, repeatable regression testing
• Clear, professional communication
• Constructive in severity/schedule/quality trade-off discussions