Chirag Rathod

Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India10 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Optimized project timelines, enhancing feature rollout speed.
  • Led cross-functional teams for successful game launches.
  • Improved team culture and participation significantly.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Gaming Industry Specialist with strong project management and quality assurance expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Game DevelopmentProject ManagementQuality AssuranceCompliance Operations

Other Skills

ADA ComplianceAdaptationAgile MethodologiesAmazon ConnectAnalytical SkillsChart.jsCommerceCommunicationContent SchedulingCreative Problem SolvingCritical ThinkingCross-functional Team LeadershipCultural Change InitiativesDaily Operations ManagementData Monetization

About

Being a gamer since childhood has always helped me throughout my profession. Being a fast learner was a plus point as it always made me excited about new upcoming things. Always having management perspective helped me to understand the expectations of stakeholders i am working with. Certainly, there are plenty of other things too which shall be discussed in person.

Experience

10 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Playsimple games

2 roles

Associate Producer

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Organization Skills

Game Producer

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Optimized project timelines, freeing up 53 calendar days, leading to faster feature rollouts.
  • Reduced QA costs by 12 hours/month by streamlining testing workflows across two sprints per month.
  • Led LiveOps and roadmap execution for Word Trip, Word Tour, Word Trip Zen and Word Bliss, ensuring alignment and smooth execution across UX, Art, Animation, Product, Development, QA, Ads, Growth, and Data Intelligence teams.
  • Spearheaded data-driven decision-making by analyzing KPIs (REV, DAU, Retention) and optimizing monetization strategies.
  • Drove platform launches on Amazon, Android, and iOS, ensuring seamless integration with 1st-party requirements.
  • Facilitated strategic planning (6-week, 6-month, and annual roadmap meetings) to enhance alignment across teams.
  • Led communication with Netflix, YouTube, and ad networks for DT deals, waivers, and approvals.
  • Increased team outing participation from <50% to 85% and boosted team happiness from 55% to 80% through culture initiatives.
Data-driven Decision MakingGame DevelopmentOperational EfficiencyStrategic Planning FacilitationTeam ManagementLeadership+1

Electronic arts (ea)

Senior QA Specialist

May 2023Feb 2024 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Glu mobile (ea)

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Jul 2019Feb 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • LiveOps experience on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes & Disney Sorcerer’s Arena (Android/iOS).
  • Acted as the primary liaison between development, QA, Game design and Product stakeholders for weekly content releases.
  • Planned and managed project roadmaps, coordinating daily operations within cross function teams in Hyderabad along with overseas QA teams.
  • Conducted risk assessments, test planning, and process optimizations to improve testing efficiency and fill communication gaps due to different geos.
Agile MethodologiesTeam ManagementProject ManagementTestingProcess ImprovementQuality Assurance

Glu mobile

QA Specialist

Jul 2019May 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Contribute to the identification and research of improvements to testing processes and
  • techniques.
  • Monitor each phase of the game development process so as to ensure design quality.
  • Write clear reports on findings and communicate status to the wider team.
  • Perform daily smoke tests, regression, verification, performance, compliance, and
  • deployment testing as needed to ensure stability of the build.
  • Verify fixes made and cooperate in production of build/ release notes.
  • Work closely with assigned game and tools teams to identify areas to test and construct
  • clear and relevant test cases.
  • Support the development team in deeper investigation of issues reported and of
  • potential fixes.
  • Follow priorities given by QA Manager to ensure current team wide goals are met.
  • Communicate feature development to the wider QA team and provide documentation
  • where necessary.
  • Create & update documentation on processes, best practices, and tools
  • Contribute ideas and/or create opportunities to help the team improve the quality of
  • processes.
Agile MethodologiesTeam ManagementProject ManagementTestingWritten CommunicationQuality Assurance

Ubisoft

Compliance Specialist

Apr 2016Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • To ensure that all console products meet submission requirements for Sony platform
  • Conducting compliance tests for Sony PlayStation console
  • Creating validation reports and providing documentation for detected flaws
  • Coordinating with the project dev team for compliance implementation.
  • Coordinating with QC and FTC teams about task completion and solving their immediate problems.
  • Communicate risks, guidelines with producer. Foresee problems and suggest safe
  • solutions.
  • To prepare and implement test plans for console submissions ensuring that the
  • product is produced to the highest standard
  • Oversee each game submission
  • Achieve targets set for test schedules and quality
  • Provide support and advice to all members of the Test Department to ensure
  • appropriate and current levels of knowledge, including training and coaching
  • Keep the compliance test documents updated
  • Preparing full and daily reports based on the project’s requirements
  • Ensuring smooth running of multiple projects
  • Maintain up to date knowledge of technical compliance requirements
  • Create and maintain the documentation required to support compliance testing and
  • training
Agile MethodologiesTeam ManagementProject ManagementTestingProcess ImprovementCompliance Operations

Ubisoft entertainment

Compliance Specialist

Apr 2016Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Managed compliance for For Honor, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Starlink, and more.
  • Coordinated directly with Sony, Xbox, and Nintendo for submission approvals and risk mitigation.
  • Led compliance reviews from Alpha to LiveOps, ensuring functionality, regression, network & complete compliance testing.

Education

Sinhgad CollegeOf engineering

Bachelor's Degree

Jan 2013Jan 2018

Bharati Vidyapeeth

Jan 2000Jan 2010

Sinhgad Institute Of Management

Graduate

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