I am currently working for Jackbox Games as a Quality Assurance Analyst. I have AAA game testing experience in running test cases/passes, bug creation and regression, and playtest support. I also have some experience in a Producer role managing cross discipline teams and utilizing Agile and Scrum.

Resume

Skills

  • Highly skilled bug reporting, creation, and regression.

  • Highly skilled at black box and white box testing for activities and investment.

  • Highly skilled at executing tests including ad-hoc testing, test passes and user story validation.

  • Excellent and positive communication skills for team collaboration and coordination of tasks.

  • Highly skilled delegating and tracking tasks for artists, programmers, and designers via Trello.

  • Experience managing build released for QA weekly testing sessions.

  • Experienced in managing builds and version control with Github.

  • Skilled in Game Design specifically in level design, encounter design, boss design, and gameplay tuning and balancing.

 Project Experience

Scrum Master for Within - Columbia College Chicago, Sep. 2019 - May 2020

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  • Managed 10+ person team creating a game from scratch in a 9-month period.

  • Distributed and communicated team tasks and milestones based on a 1-week Agile sprints delivering builds on time 100% of the time.

  • Organized and observed public game testing at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair in November 2019


QA Member for Phase Shift - Columbia College Chicago, Jan. 2020 - May 2020

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  • Participated in bi-weekly build game testing lasting 2-3 hours testing both functionality and technical bug identification.

  • Coordinated with team’s Scrum Master on build release reliability and setting up communication improvements resulting in significant increase in bug reports.

Skills

  • Unity Engine

  • Unreal Engine

  • Maya

  • Visual Studio

    • C#

  • Github

  • Microsoft Office

  • Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere

  • Object Oriented

  • Agile Development

  • Scrum/Scrum Master

  • QA

Education

BA - Game Design - Columbia College Chicago (Sep. 2016 - May 2020)

  • Concentration in Game Development

  • Minor in Management

  • Dean’s List for Senior Year

If you have any other questions feel free to email me at patrickaickes@gmail.com