Jake Russell
QA Manager at WB Games Boston
Lynnwood, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Russell is a QA Manager with 12 years of software and game-focused experience, currently leading QA for WB Games Boston's mobile title Game of Thrones: Conquest. He combines hands-on SDET skills—building TDD automation frameworks with C#, Appium, Ruby, RSpec, and Selenium—with people leadership, managing and mentoring distributed teams up to 25 testers and promoting cross-discipline career growth. Jake has owned mobile release management, compliance, and CI pipelines across iOS/Android and server environments, consistently delivering production-ready releases. He began his career in hands-on technical support and tooling, creating databases and modifying source code, which gives him practical depth in debugging and systems integration. Passionate about games as vehicles for joy and self-discovery, he brings that player-first perspective to quality, balancing measurable test coverage with the human experience of play. Based in Lynnwood, WA, he blends technical rigor with coaching and a track record of scaling QA practices in mid-size game and platform companies.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Game Design and Development, Bachelor of Science (BS), Game Design and Development at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Regents High School Diploma, General Studies, Advanced Regents High School Diploma, General Studies at Attica Senior High
English, asl
Github Skills (20)
appium10
webdriver9
selenium9
ios9
windows9
android9
automation9
w3c9
test-automation9
automation-framework9
macos9
typescript8
microsoft7
electron7
vscode-extension7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Klouse/2020-Games
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
Klouse/Hop-Around
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
Hop on some platforms for cash!
Contributions:26 PRs, 42 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 11 months
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