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Ashutosh Khatavkar
Mid-level SDET/Software Engineer specializing in test automation and CI/CD
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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.
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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
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