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Jason Salas - QA Engineer III (Premier @ VALORANT) in Los Angeles, California

Jason Salas

Senior QA Engineer specializing in game quality ownership, automation, and analytics

Riot GamesArizona State UniversityLos Angeles, California9 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks On-Site

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QA/engineering background spanning Riot Games (VALORANT leaderboard systems) and early-stage startups. Has hands-on experience improving performance and reliability via caching, rate limiting, deduplication/idempotency, and shipping/validating high-stakes production hotfixes; also builds Next.js/TypeScript projects and automation/internal tools (Python).

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Key Strengths

  • End-to-end ownership of full-stack personal projects (Next.js/TypeScript PokeDex with SSR)
  • Frontend performance debugging and refactoring (viewport-only rendering to restore responsiveness)
  • Designing resilient backend/API patterns (caching, rate limiting, deduplication/idempotency)
  • Production incident response under pressure (late-night leaderboard hotfix validated in staging/main then executed in prod via script/Swagger)
  • Strong engineering-quality fundamentals (unit testing beyond happy path, separation of concerns, robust logging/error handling)
  • Adaptable in both enterprise and small startup environments; proactively takes unowned work (internal tools via Python)

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Experience

QA Engineer III (Premier @ VALORANT)Riot Games · Nov 2022 – Present
QA Engineer II (Competitive @ VALORANT)Riot Games · Jul 2020 – Nov 2022
Technical Support AnalystReSci (Retention Science) · Nov 2019 – Jul 2020
Software AnalystManageware Solutions · Nov 2018 – Sep 2019
Software/Hardware QA AnalystMobelisk Group, LLC · Jul 2017 – Nov 2018
CSS Systems and Software SupportArizona State University · Dec 2016 – Jul 2017
Information System SupportEisenhower Medical Center · Jun 2016 – Aug 2016internship
Information Systems SupportDesert Orthopedic Center · Dec 2014 – Feb 2015internship
Technical InternSpaceX · Jul 2014 – Aug 2014internship
Technical InternHagemeyer North America · Jul 2014 – Aug 2014internship

Education

Arizona State Universitybachelor, Software Engineering, Applied Mathematics (Focus in Software Engineering) (2019)
Oak Harbor High Schoolhigh_school (2013)

Languages

English

Certifications

Game Design Foundations: 1 Ideas, Core Loops, and GoalsLearn Swift: Conditionals and Loops CourseGame Design Foundations: 2 Systems, Chance, and StrategyGame Design Foundations: 3 Pitch, Propose, and PracticeLearn Swift: Arrays, Sets, and Dictionaries Course

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Jason SalasSenior QA Engineer specializing in game quality ownership, automation, and analytics