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Cody Drake
Senior QA Lead/Quality Designer specializing in mobile live-ops games
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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.
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Key Strengths
- QA lead ownership across full cycle (feature kickoff through release/live updates)
- Strong Jira hygiene and high-signal bug tickets (clear repro, rich context, robust comments)
- Cross-functional liaison resolving spec ambiguity between product and engineering
- Platform compliance and submission readiness expertise (Sony requirements)
- Risk-based release decision-making (pushed to limit multiplayer to 2 players due to performance/quality)
- High attention to detail—found unique 100% crash in final submission by isolating an uncommon user path
- Efficient edge-case testing via JSON/config and controlled data manipulation, then validating with realistic data
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