Rurik Saraste

Continued in all roles listed in previous Build Engineer posts, in addition:

• Larger scale Gitlab pipelines (multi-pipeline projects, mono-repos)
• Restructuring and refactoring Gitlab build pipelines
• Optimization of Docker images and their creation
  Jenkins superadmin (local instance) for Github projects, creation and maintenance of build pipelines

• Creation and maintenance of Core Tech automated build pipelines on Gitlab
• Continued as project level admin for Gitlab instance
• Creation and maintenance of developer tools
• Creation and maintenance of Docker images, primarily Windows, but also Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc)
• Continued being responsible for build and R&D Lab hardware installation and maintenance (Windows Server 2022, Linux Ubuntu, Gentoo, Red Hat, Mac OS)
• Continued in my role of global project level admin for Coverity

• Migrated from QuickBuild to Gitlab pipelines: Project level admin; Single-handedly created and maintained all Core Tech team automated build pipelines
• Responsible for installation and initial configuration of hardware in our R&D Lab (servers, prototypes, etc)
• Responsible for configuration and maintenance of the Gitlab pipeline hardware
• Creation and maintenance of Docker images, primarily Windows, but also Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc)
• Continued being responsible for Creation and maintenance of build pipelines in Quickbuild; QB administrator until Gitlab migration
• Continued to Manage all Static Analysis aspects of our local Coverity instance, including installation, maintenance and administration until migration to a global SIE instance. Continued as a project level global admin.

• Software Engineer II in the Core Tech team
• Server and Client side programming (C/C++/C#, Python, Powershell, Bash, JavaScript)
• Created and maintained build pipelines in Quickbuild; QB administrator
• Managed all Static Analysis aspects of our local Coverity instance, including installation, maintenance and administration.

• Managed a team of 8-15 testers
• Overall test plan, scheduling and test matrix management
• Introduction to test automation
• Daily/weekly communication and reports to stakeholders
• Managed a team of 8-15 testers
• Overall test plan, scheduling and test matrix management
• Introduction to test automation
• Daily/weekly communication and reports to stakeholders

• Pre-acquisition (Gaikai Inc.)
• Online streaming PC games QA
• Bug reports in JIRA and Bugzilla
• Created and maintained test plans and matrices
• Trained new and existing team members

• Spearheaded a new Online Gaming QA team
• Directly communicated with the Client via video conferences and daily + weekly reports
• Personally designed and built the testing lab
• Created and maintained the test plans and test matrices for the QA team
• Managed a team of 5-10 testers (seasonal)

• Blu-ray media QC (movies, tv shows), subtitle/audio/video verification
• Online and on-disc content verification for DVD and Blu-ray media
• Daily reports
• Frequent on-site work at external partner (Deluxe Digital Studios)

• Creation and maintenance of test matrices for the Localization QA team
• Training new and existing staff
• Game localization (Finnish language)
• Game localization spot-checks for all Nordic languages
• Sony Technical Requirements Checklist (TRC)
• Microsoft Xbox Requirements (XR)
• Nintendo Lot Check