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Luisa Bakalova

Amsterdam

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Producer/Production Manager

Madfinger games
Brno
01.2022 - Current
  • Been a part of the production team since the preproduction phase, contributing to the project's development from its conceptualization through its various stages
  • Establishing, leading and supporting the whole QA team from the ground up
  • Managing the whole process of finding and working with an outsource QA company as well as supporting all the operations following our cooperation with them
  • Managing the outsource QA meetings, daily tasks and reports
  • Producer of multiple teams simultaneously, overseeing their efforts in the following areas: Online, Backend, Game Meta, UI/UX, Game World development, and managing cross-functional feature teams involving various departments within the company
  • Creating cross-functional feature teams to ensure efficient collaboration, faster development and increase the flexibility and quality in the production phase of the project
  • Creating and maintaining project roadmaps, setting milestones, and ensuring that the development team stays on track to meet deadlines
  • Facilitating scrum ceremonies including Sprint Plannings, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
  • Setting up our project management system for the entire project as well as managing it afterwords for the whole company
  • Working closely with the other producers, leads and directors to prioritize features, make design choices, resolving conflicts within the development team and align to achieve the project goals
  • Identifying potential risks during the development process and implementing strategies to mitigate them
  • Managing the Tech Ops team

QA Team Lead

Madfinger Games
Brno
10.2019 - 01.2022
  • Leading a team of 5 to 10 QA's
  • Supporting 6 live projects and 1 under development until release
  • Built the whole structure of test planning and test case management
  • Created pipelines to productively work with customer care and other teams in the company
  • Supported the personal growth of team members

QA Team Lead

Dopamine Gaming
Sofia
05.2017 - 08.2019
  • Leading a team of 5 QA's on numerous online slot games (Mobile and PC)
  • Part of the company since the early years I participated in the creation of most of the pipelines, structures and operations in the QA team that ensured productive and flawless collaboration with the development teams

Senior QA

Dopamine Gaming
Sofia
12.2015 - 04.2017
  • Testing online slot games (Mobile and PC)
  • Actively participating in full QA life cycle of 2 to 3 games per month

QA Trainer

Gameloft
Sofia
01.2015 - 10.2015
  • Leading weekly training of potential new employees (5 to 10 people per week)
  • Evaluating performance and participating in decisions of employment of trained people

Senior QA

Gameloft
Sofia
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Organizing and supporting daily work of junior and regular QA's within a team of 30+ members
  • Testing games (Mobile)

QA

Gameloft
Sofia
06.2013 - 01.2014
  • Testing games (Mobile)

Education

Primary School Education and Foreign Language Teaching -

Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
2013

High School degree -

4SVG "Otec Paisii"
2009

Metal Sculpture -

SHUPI "Sveti Luka"
2007

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Agile (Scrum and Kanban)
  • PM Systems
  • Leadership
  • Product and Team Management
  • Team Development
  • Production Planning
  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Adaptability

Timeline

Producer/Production Manager

Madfinger games
01.2022 - Current

QA Team Lead

Madfinger Games
10.2019 - 01.2022

QA Team Lead

Dopamine Gaming
05.2017 - 08.2019

Senior QA

Dopamine Gaming
12.2015 - 04.2017

QA Trainer

Gameloft
01.2015 - 10.2015

Senior QA

Gameloft
01.2014 - 01.2015

QA

Gameloft
06.2013 - 01.2014

Primary School Education and Foreign Language Teaching -

Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

High School degree -

4SVG "Otec Paisii"

Metal Sculpture -

SHUPI "Sveti Luka"

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