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Senior AAA game QA analyst and test engineer with 9+ years designing and producing RPG narrative, quests, and content. Manages D&D 5e living-world operations for a 4,500+ member online community, leading teams and running hundreds of sessions as a game master. Bridges narrative and systems thinking across RPG rule design, quest writing, and technical QA. Experienced in test planning, regression/exploratory testing, defect triage, and maintaining high-quality standards while also owning production documentation and stakeholder alignment.…Senior AAA game QA analyst and test engineer with 9+ years designing and producing RPG narrative, quests, and content. Manages D&D 5e living-world operations for a 4,500+ member online community, leading teams and running hundreds of sessions as a game master. Bridges narrative and systems thinking across RPG rule design, quest writing, and technical QA. Experienced in test planning, regression/exploratory testing, defect triage, and maintaining high-quality standards while also owning production documentation and stakeholder alignment.

Abdullah Yusuf

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Senior AAA game QA analyst and test engineer with 9+ years designing and producing RPG narrative, quests, and content. Manages D&D 5e living-world operations for a 4,500+ member online community, leading teams and running hundreds of sessions as a game master. Bridges narrative and systems thinking across RPG rule design, quest writing, and technical QA. Experienced in test planning, regression/exploratory testing, defect triage, and maintaining high-quality standards while also owning production documentation and stakeholder alignment.…Senior AAA game QA analyst and test engineer with 9+ years designing and producing RPG narrative, quests, and content. Manages D&D 5e living-world operations for a 4,500+ member online community, leading teams and running hundreds of sessions as a game master. Bridges narrative and systems thinking across RPG rule design, quest writing, and technical QA. Experienced in test planning, regression/exploratory testing, defect triage, and maintaining high-quality standards while also owning production documentation and stakeholder alignment.

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Senior AAA game QA analyst and test engineer with 9+ years designing and producing RPG narrative, quests, and content. Manages D&D 5e living-world operations for a 4,500+ member online community, leading teams and running hundreds of sessions as a game master.

Bridges narrative and systems thinking across RPG rule design, quest writing, and technical QA. Experienced in test planning, regression/exploratory testing, defect triage, and maintaining high-quality standards while also owning production documentation and stakeholder alignment.

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Work Experience

Senior Game QA Analyst / Senior Test Engineer at globalStep

April 20, 2026 - Present

Worked in a testing team of ~20 to support Borderlands 4 across version milestones 1.7 to 1.9. Partnered with test lead, other STEs, and 2K stakeholders to plan and execute key tasks including accessibility testing. Improved bug reporting quality and volume (from ~30 bugs/week to over 100, totaling 1500+ reported issues). Upheld defect quality standards to reduce undesirable resolutions to under 10% of created issues. Owned and maintained project documentation, including Jira dashboards and Confluence spaces.

Business Analyst at W.L. Gore

June 20, 2022 - March 20, 2024

Supported projects in Gore’s Central Business Systems, Research and Development, and Fabrics divisions. Collaborated with globally distributed cross-functional teams across the US, Germany, and China. Participated in internal meetings as part of a Community of Practice to refine best practices for Business Analysts.

Admin / D&D RPG Designer and Narrative Designer at The Hawthorne Guild

November 20, 2017 - Present

Led and managed a D&D 5e living-world server and community of 4,500+ members. Managed creative talent in teams of 20+ while balancing design and production of content and subsystems for a large online community. Ran 400+ D&D sessions as a game master, including multiple campaigns, one-shots, and server events. Designed, wrote, and contributed to D&D 5e adventures, module content, adventure supplements, and statblocks. Designed, led, and game-mastered large server events with dozens of game masters and hundreds of players. Created key server documentation including a central rules and subsystem document and a website.

Business Analyst / Project Manager / Quality Assurance Analyst at NoveIution

July 20, 2016 - December 20, 2020

Provided business and quality analysis support for a core web-based Electronic Research Administration platform. Documented requirements for institution-specific customizations for major organizations such as Cornell University. Served as Project Manager and QA Analyst to implement an Institutional Biosafety Committee module within the platform for The University of Texas at Dallas (Education).