Ashish B R

QA Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in end-to-end testing for gaming applications.
Proven track record in mentoring junior QA engineers.
Strong experience in performance and compliance testing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance Specialist in the Gaming industry with strong mentoring capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceEnd-to-end TestingTest Planning

Other Skills

Adhoc TestingBug TrackingCompatibility TestingCompliance TestingDocument ReviewFunctional TestingGame TestingLiveOps TestingLiveopsLoad TestingLocalization TestingManual TestingMentoringPerformance TestingRegression Testing

Experience

6 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Gameberry labs

2 roles

Senior QA Engineer

Promoted

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Project - Ludo Star
A blend of feature ownership, rigorous testing, mentoring and picking up some managerial responsibilities to ensure smooth functioning of QA tasks and assuring quality.
Completely owning end-to-end testing of epochal features.
Enlightening juniors with legendary game features and flows.
Assisting team members with efficient ways of testing tricky areas in various features and adhocs.
Reviewing juniors' TestPlans and and suggesting edge cases and test cases for exploratory testing.
Active participation in all feature kick-off meetings and discussions.
Provide suggestions for task allocation and load distribution in QA quarter planning meetings.
Conduct technical round of interview for QA candidates across all games and provide honest feedbacks about each one of them to higher management and HR.
Frequent testing of store builds to identify and report defects at the earliest to assure better UX for players.
Provide feedbacks and suggestions to leads and managers in order to smoothen QA structure and make testing more efficient.

End-to-end TestingMentoringQuality AssuranceTest ExecutionBug TrackingTest Assurance

QA Engineer

Sep 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Project - Ludo Star | Parchisi Star
QA ownership of complete features covering SPEC discussion, end-to-end
testing and deploying to the main product. Complete QA ownership of server and build releases involving smoke and sanity of staging, pre-prod (internal) and prod builds.
Provide QA costing and create test plan for each feature.
Prepare, review and release reports of Build Acceptance Testing and release smoke/sanity.
Effective communication with developers and product team to identify expected flows,
additional scope of testing and discuss effective ways of handling edge case bugs.
Comprehensive testing of LiveOps events and live defect fixes in short span of time to
improve overall UX and performance.
Performance testing by internet throttling ranging from 2G to 5G and stress testing using
Charles proxy.
Extracting builds, checking app size and art asset size using Chauper.
Push notifications testing on Android and iOS using CleverTap.
Extracted frontend logs, and Installed iOS builds to iPad and iPhone using Apple Configurator.
Extracted frontend logs from Android devices using Android Studio.
Altered and verified config data using consul.

Quality AssuranceTest PlanningPerformance TestingLiveOps TestingBug Tracking

Sun technologies

Quality Assurance Tester

Mar 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Projects - HELLPOINT | RED SOLSTICE 2 | ROGUE COMPANY | SMITE
End-to-end testing and deployment of different console game projects using STLC and Bug Life Cycle methodologies.
Collaborated with business clients, project heads, and team leads for procuring information to ensure high-quality releases.
Executed test plans and met all deadlines irrespective of the hurdles and work circumstances.
Handled the entire bug life cycle right from identifying all kinds of bugs, reporting and tracking them on Jira, to reopening if necessary, retesting and regressions.
Performed compliance testing and multiplayer testing on PS4 and XBOX.
Created daily status reports of QA task executions and actively participated in stand-up calls.
Trained and mentored freshers and newly joined QA folks.

Quality AssuranceEnd-to-end TestingBug TrackingCompliance Testing