🏢Experience
Places that have paid me to do
Riot
Games
13+ years
Los Angeles, CA
Sr. Principal QA Engineer - Riot MMO
Nov 2022 - Present
QA discipline craft lead for the Riot MMO in R&D
Principal QA Engineer - Valorant
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
QA discipline craft lead for all of Valorant. Defining test strategy, process and standards across all test activities. Identifying and facilitating the understanding and management of risks from prototype through to post-production
QA Engineer III - League of Legends
May 2013 - Jan 2018
QA Lead defining test process, approach and management of numerous League of Legend front-end client projects for PC and Mac, serving hundreds of millions of players worldwide
Havas
Lynx
~1 year
Manchester, UK
QA Software Tester - Healthcare
Jan 2013 - Oct 2013
QA for the development branch of the Havas Lynx Group, a health care agency working across web and mobile adhering to strict ISO standards
Cambridge
University
~1 year
Cambridge, UK
QA Test Analyst - Education
Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
QA for the certification board of the University of Cambridge, defining test approach and executing testing towards educational programs and exams in over 170 countries, adhering to strict ISO standards requirements
Jagex
4+ years
Cambridge, UK
QA Manager - R&D - R&D
Nov 2010 - Jun 2012
anaging a team of QA individuals, defining the test approach and working with stakeholders across a handful of R&D projects from prototype through to production, across mobile, web and PC
QA Lead - RuneScape
Apr 2009 - Nov 2010
Leading the QA effort for RuneScape's Dungeons of Daemonheim expansion, the largest content update to-date
QA Tester - RuneScape
Jun 2007 - Aug 2008
QA planning and executing broad testing activities for all headline updates for RuneScape
🎓Education
Places I went to get taught
BSc (Hons), Computer Games Programming
The University of Huddersfield
2005 - 2009
2x A levels, Computing and Advanced IT
Cheadle and Marple College
2003 - 2005
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst
Rex Black Inc
Issued Jul 2017
ISTQB Test Engineering Foundational Level
Rex Black Inc
Issued Aug 2016