Nicholas Marino
Chicago,IL
Summary
Effective quality professional bringing proven success in driving continuous improvement initiatives in Quality Engineer roles. Focused and diligent with commitment to fostering corporate mission. Consistently acknowledged for implementing actionable initiative to reduce error rates and optimize company processes.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Engineer
UniteUs / NowPow
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Run weekly test suites
- Roadmap testing plans for features, and implement testing strategies using SQL, Postman, AWS, and other programs
- Report, track and resolve defects and provide root cause analysis
- Maintain multiple databases, ensuring encoded data meets HIPPA security measures
Mathematician
Scientific Games
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Company Overview: Chicago, Illinois
- Design slot machine prize distributions
- Implement came design into code using C++
- Discuss and workshop game functionality and design with project managers
- Continuously reiterate math models with quick turnaround
- Work with internal testing to ensure game simulations match theoretical projections
- Maintain constant communication between all teams working on the game (art, sound, engineering) to ensure cross-discipline gameplay was seamless
Mathematician
EVERI
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Company Overview: Austin, Texas
- Design slot machine prize distributions
- Write game code using C#, TypeScript/JavaSctipt, Python, MySQL, & Excel
- Communicate clear and detailed game functionality to developers, and work with them to ensure proper mechanic behavior
- Balance timeline mappings for projects and discuss mechanic possibilities with producers
- Implement improvements for our math process and relay new methods to the team
- Train new mathematicians on how to create math models with our system
Quality Assurance Mathematician
EVERI
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Company Overview: Austin, Texas
- Develop test procedures to ensure slot machine mathematics are compliant with regulatory standards
- Communicate with state regulatory committees, field teams, and compliance department to identify issues and resolve any problem
- Build testing tools in python and excel to expedite testing procedures and enhance reliability
- Verify reported probabilities, statistics, and payouts are consistent with simulation data, gameplay mechanics, and math algorithm design
- Report, track and resolve defects and provide root cause analysis
- Regularly communicate project status to QA Lead/QA Manager, Production, Development and any other stakeholder
- Austin, Texas
Education
Bachelors of Science - Statistical Mathematics
The University of Texas at Austin
12.2014
Skills
- Experienced Excel User
- C / C#
- Java
- Ruby
- Control Plan Development
- Quality processes
- Quality improvement planing
- Comedy Writer & Producer
- Touring Comedian
Timeline
Quality Engineer
UniteUs / NowPow
01.2021 - 01.2024
Mathematician
Scientific Games
01.2019 - 01.2020
Mathematician
EVERI
01.2017 - 01.2019
Quality Assurance Mathematician
EVERI
01.2015 - 01.2017
Bachelors of Science - Statistical Mathematics
The University of Texas at Austin
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