Rodolfo Garcia

About

Game QA/automation tester with experience at Blizzard, Bossfight Entertainment, and Netflix, spanning manual-to-automation transitions, Selenium/C# UI automation, and CI/CD nightly reporting via TestRail. Known for an end-user-driven test strategy, strong defect isolation (including crash dumps), and cross-functional test planning that influenced multiplayer UX/design decisions.

Key Strengths

• Built and maintained automated UI tests (Selenium) and updated tests as workflows/object references changed
• Used nightly suite results to quickly identify failures and reintegrate stabilized tests
• Found pre-production defect via automation (incorrect in-game textbox text) and wrote it up before release
• Strong end-user mindset to derive manual test coverage and decide what to automate vs keep manual
• Reproduced a hard-to-hit crash with strict conditions and provided detailed bug reports with crash reports/dumps
• Cross-functional collaboration: authored test plans and influenced design changes to improve multiplayer UX messaging

Reference Highlights

• Essential role in expanding automated test suite
• Improved test coverage and updated outdated tests
• Prevented production escapes by detecting regressions early
• Strong confidence-building impact on test suite
• Well-documented changes; easy code reviews
• Excellent test design skills
• Writes legible, readable, maintainable tests
• Effective reuse of shared framework code
• Proactive CI/CD and nightly regression monitoring
• Quickly pinpoints failures to related features
• Fast turnaround fixing pipeline-related test failures
• Above-average QA methodology skills
• Creates concise, accurate test plans for sprint timelines
• Ensures consistent, trustworthy results via reusable test data
• Very effective defect identification and triage
• Incredible communication and cross-team collaboration
• Vocal about concerns; strong reporting and documentation

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