John Brooks

QA Manager

Noblesville, Indiana, United States30 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 30 years of experience in the games industry.
Expert in building QA teams from scratch.
Proficient in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Gaming Industry Expert with extensive QA and production experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceGame Development

Other Skills

Test StrategiesTest PlansJIRAWiiProductionAndroidiOS developmentFacebookManagementNintendo DSVideo GamesRecruitingVideo Game ProductionLocalizationEmergency Medical

About

Games Industry veteran, with more than thirty years experience of both QA and production experience. Experienced on all major platforms, experienced in Class 2 video slot development. familiar with Agile and * Waterfall development methodologies. Specialties: MMO, PC, NDS and Mac OSX. Class 2 video slots, Unity. and mobile games. creating QA teams from the ground up a specialty.

Experience

30 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

6 mos

Current Experience

Monumental games

Quality Assurance Manager

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Boss fight entertainment netflix games studios

QA Manager

Apr 2019 – Sep 2025 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Allen, Texas

Video game technologies

2 roles

QA Analyst 3

Aug 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Reno, Nevada Area

Create test strategies and test plans for class 2 casino product.
Execute test cases.
Log defects into JIRA.
Act as interface between certification labs and the development teams.

Test StrategiesTest PlansJIRAQuality AssuranceGame Development

QA Analyst III

Sep 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Reno, Nevada Area

Eat sleep play

QA Manager

Apr 2016 – Aug 2016 · 4 mos · Greater Salt Lake City Area

Independent game incubator

Consultant (Contract)

Jun 2013 – Sep 2013 · 3 mos

Firebrand games

Producer/QA Manager

Mar 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Functioning as studio head.
Managing Design, Art and Code teams.
Managing Operations
General office administration.
Local HR management
Hiring, and managing QA team.
Now producing iOS and Android dev teams on games for the mobile and casual market.

Destineer studios

2 roles

Senior Producer

Oct 2007 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos

Project manager with responsibilty for multiple SKUs of externally developed product. Liaising between developer and publisher and internally between developer and QA.

QA Manager

Oct 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr

Build and maintain a QA department capable of handling multiple projects on multiple platforms facilitating simultaneous development of more than fifteen projects.
Recruiting,training and maintaining QA staff.
Mentoring staff in co-ordinated test plan development.
Establishing and defining career paths for QA team members.
Improving communication between QA and project managers/producers.
Creating and establishing QA as a part of the whole development process instead of the end of the chain.

Upton fire & ems department

Emergency Medical Technician

May 2004 – Oct 2006 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Front line 911 emergency medical service.

American medical response

Emergency Medical Technician

Jun 2003 – Jul 2006 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Combination of frontline 911 emergency & Interfacility patient transport.

Cyan worlds

QA Manager

Mar 2002 – Oct 2002 · 7 mos

Quaility Assurance manager for a massively multi-player game.

Daticon inc.

QA Analyst

Nov 2001 – Mar 2002 · 4 mos

Validation and perfomance testing of litigation support software "Virtual Partner".

Turbine entertainment software

Associate Producer

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs

As an AP I was responsible for building & maintaining the project schedule for a multi-million dollar videogame. In addition to being the main "go to guy" for all development team members.