Harry Kashouli
Experienced in Video Games for Quality Assurance/Technical Compliance/Production
42 years old
Driving License
Suisun City (94585) United States (California)
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Proactive individual with a great passion for video games and ensuring quality at both first party and consumer levels. Demonstrated leadership skills throughout my career and developed technical skills on all platforms. Continually strive to learn more, and communicate that knowledge to those that it would benefit. Long term goal is to remain in the video games industry, and lead teams to growth and success.
Senior Compliance Analyst (II), QA - EA Redwood Shores
Electronic Arts
December 2009
to December 2012
Full-time
Redwood Shores
United States - California
- Titles: Dead Space 2 & 3
- Started the use of Agile methodologies in my teams, to improve results and communications; specifically Scrum
- Responsible for organising compliance testing on all platforms; knowledgeable in the respective development hardware/software; responsible for identifying critical areas where issues are most likely to occur, and shifting testing resources to account for this
- Actively kept up to date regarding all compliance areas (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and PC)
- Assisted with admin duties for DevTest/DevTrack in EARS QA Compliance (project tracking and lifecycle management tools); updated test cases for all platforms and kept them up to date
- Assisted with the training of our new outsourced test teams (Globant – Argentina, EA – Romania & USA), and constantly updated them with first party developments; responsible for training them so that all EA QA departments could use them successfully
- Responsible for ensuring that products were checked for legal requirements (ESRB, PEGI, etc) and packaging compliance assets
- Responsible for completing all the guideline documentation for submission to EA Certification
- Received a global EA award for Being Accountable