Barbara Homewood
Port Coquitlam,BC
Summary
High performer with 6 years of professional experience in AAA video game development and a successful track record in innovating workstreams and technical solutions to support efficient, high-performing teams. Proficient in strategic planning and data analysis. Passionate about high-quality game experiences.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Quality Manager, Quality Design
ELECTRONIC ARTS
06.2021 - Current
- Championed as area owner for 2 core pillars, promoting a Player-First perspective, and ensuring high experiential quality by product launch.
- Partnered with stakeholders to design action plans that drive quality, aligning with product objectives and project scope.
- Managed cross-functional strategic initiatives, fostering collaboration between Software Engineers, Data Analysts, and Production Stakeholders.
- Leveraged Business Intelligence to monitor and manage risks to product quality trends, enabling mitigations to ensure adherence to milestone criteria and product quality.
- Set direction, tracked progress, and defined success for processes that align with franchise Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Associate Quality Designer
ELECTRONIC ARTS
05.2019 - 06.2021
- Maintained bug estimates and projections report, ensuring accurate tracking and forecasting of 2000+ issues throughout a project cycle.
- Established and maintained effective communication channels with stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency in continuous improvement efforts.
- Transformed Confluence workspaces by implementing detailed documentation, well-structured file hierarchy, standard naming conventions, templates, and status auditing tool.
- Utilized metrics and analytics to conduct comprehensive investigations into game quality, enabling data-driven insights and actionable improvements.
- Successfully met tight deadlines for First Party Compliance by coordinating the delivery of game tuning across multiple test environments.
Development Support
KEYWORDS STUDIOS
12.2017 - 05.2019
- Partnered with Production and Development to ensure product quality meets high standard.
- Executed white-box and black-box testing that contributes to detecting and resolving bugs.
- Defined test plan criteria and developed test strategies to adhere to a Risk-Based Testing methodology.
- Reviewed design and technical documentation to assess project impact and risk.
- Submitted and monitored defect reports.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - English
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Burnaby, BC08.2017
Skills
- Game Development
- Project Management
- Product Management
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Microsoft Suites
- Google Suites
- Figma
- UI/UX
- Perforce
- GitHub
- CI/CD
Additional Information
- Supported a vital organizational transformation, overseeing a 150% headcount growth through 40+ interviews, onboarding, and ongoing support for 15+ new staff, ensuring transformational success.
- Successfully implemented a franchise-wide process improvement initiative that increases accuracy and decreases administrative overhead for a critical KPI by 80-90%.
- Spearheaded an experimental research and development team, innovating 9 Proofs-of-Concept in 12 months.
- Developed an Escape Defect Analysis report that annually analyses over 1000 bugs, extracting actionable insights for improving product quality and reducing escape defects in future releases.
- 6 Shipped AAA Video Game Titles - FIFA 19, FIFA 20, FIFA 21, FIFA 22, FIFA 23, FC 24.
Timeline
Product Quality Manager, Quality Design
ELECTRONIC ARTS
06.2021 - Current
Associate Quality Designer
ELECTRONIC ARTS
05.2019 - 06.2021
Development Support
KEYWORDS STUDIOS
12.2017 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Arts - English
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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