Game & Software QA Engineer

TUSHANT KARIHALOO

Quality Assurance Engineer Game & Software Testing

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QA Engineer with hands-on experience testing AAA and high-profile titles across PC, Mobile, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms. Skilled in manual and automated testing, defect lifecycle management, and Selenium-based frameworks. Adept at identifying coverage gaps, reproducing high-severity defects, and driving release quality. EXPERIENCE

QA Tester — Keywords Studios Feb. 2026 – Aug

AAA & High-Profile Titles Gurugram, India

• Tested AAA and high-profile titles across PC, Mobile, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms, ensuring cross-platform release quality.

• Owned end-to-end testing of assigned features and modules, taking full accountability for their quality and stability.

• Prioritized, reproduced, and validated high-severity defects to accelerate resolution cycles and reduce release risk.

• Enhanced test coverage by identifying gaps and designing new test scenarios that surfaced previously undetected issues. QA Tester Intern — Keywords Studios Sep. 2025 – Feb. 2026 Manual QA Testing Gurugram, India

• Performed manual QA testing on Mobile, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox applications to identify functional, UI/UX, performance, and compatibility defects.

• Logged, tracked, and verified defects in JIRA, applying proper bug life cycle, severity, and priority standards.

• Executed functional, regression, smoke, and compatibility testing across multiple releases to ensure product stability. PROJECTS

Selenium Automation Framework for Enterprise Web Application — Java, TestNG, Maven [GitHub]

• Developed an automated Selenium WebDriver framework using Java, TestNG, and Maven to validate core functionality of a simulated enterprise web application.

• Implemented test cases for valid/invalid login, logout, and forgot-password workflows using the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern.

• Integrated automatic screenshot capture on test failure for faster debugging and defect analysis.

• Executed regression suites via TestNG XML configuration and managed dependencies with Maven; used Git and GitHub for version control.

2D Space Shooter Game — Unity [Play]

• Performed comprehensive manual testing to ensure gameplay stability, functionality, and user experience quality.

• Designed and executed detailed test cases for player controls, enemy spawning, scoring logic, and collision detection.

• Identified, documented, and tracked gameplay, UI, and functional defects with clear reproduction steps and expected vs. actual results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

QA Skills: Manual Testing, Functional, Regression, Smoke & Compatibility Testing, Test Case Design, Bug Reporting Automation: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Page Object Model (POM), Maven Tools: JIRA, Testmo, Git, GitHub, Eclipse IDE, Visual Studio, VS Code, MySQL Languages: Java, Python

Platforms: PC, Mobile, PlayStation, Xbox

CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Amazon Web Services [Certificate]

• Game Testing & QA Fundamentals — Udemy [Certificate]

• The Ultimate Guide to Game Development with Unity (Official) — Udemy [Certificate] EDUCATION

B.E., Computer Science — Model Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jammu Nov. 2021 – June 2025 Senior Secondary (Non-Medical) — Mixed Government School, Jammu Apr. 2019 – Apr. 2021