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Alien: Isolation Quality Assurance Technician

Responsibilities

As a Quality Assurance Technician

  • Tested the game's critical path, focusing primarily on the Steam platform
  • Created well written and concise bug reports with all relevant information attached
  • Communicated issues across the development team in order to escalate them
  • Made use of the game's development tools to extract debug information from the game
  • Thoroughly tested the campaign component of the game, evaluating and providing feedback on all aspects of the experience
  • Ran regular test sweeps on game features to ensure that they stayed healthy
  • Ran compatibility tests on a build of the game that featured Oculus Rift functionality, that was sent out as a trade show demonstration

Platforms:

Steam, Mac, Linux, Xbox One,  Xbox 360, Playstation 4, Playstation 3

Project Overview:

Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. 

Tools Used

Proprietary Game Engine - Used the debugging tools and commands to gather information on potential issues

Notepad++ - Viewed game's log files in order to understand where issues could occur

Microsoft Excel - Filled out comprehensive test plans that were used on the project

 


Visual Studio - Attached to the game in order to provide call stacks and other info to the programmers

Devsuite - Created and tracked issues as well as informative dashboards

Perforce - Used daily when interacting with the game's files

Fifteen years after the events of Alien, Ellen Ripley’s daughter, Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance.

Links:

🔗 - Alien: Isolation Official Website
🔗 - Alien: Isolation on Steam

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