Jay Watson

Game Developer & QA Specialist

Stoke-on-Trent, UK | codsworth0@gmail.com | 07305 070480

Professional Experience

Game Developer & QA Specialist | July 2017 - Present

Delivered both game development and quality assurance across nine years at Koko, working across a wide range of commercial projects and client campaigns from day one.
Lead developer of browser games and mobile apps for clients such as Cathay Pacific, Manchester Airport, Netflights, Metrocentre, and Livingbridge.
Led QA across diverse client projects, including games, responsive websites, custom software, and augmented reality (AR) experiences.
Collaborated daily with the wider studio team, including project stakeholders, animators, and designers, to problem-solve, establish technical direction, and agree on approach.
Supported wider studio production and live activations for global brands, including sourcing assets, brainstorming, audio editing, data entry, and updating live campaigns via custom CMS platforms.

Highly experienced in building games with C3 (Construct 3), learning in other platforms such as Unity.
Confident in integrating third party APIs, for data submission and retrieval.
Can efficiently modify existing projects for reskinning purposes.
Cross-platform development and releases (Mobile & Desktop).
Developed many useful skills and practices over the years, which I pass on to future projects to improve efficiency.
In my spare time, I train on various alternatives to C3 where skills are transferrable such as Javascript, Unity.
Dabbled in aspects of various new engines/languages quickly, for the purpose of making game modifications and addons. Examples include Unity, Unreal Engine 4 & 5, and the Lua scripting language.

Web and Game testing is my main point of expertise.
High experience in manual testing methodology, but desiring to learn automatic testing methods.
Responsive cross-platform (Mobile & Desktop) and cross-browser testing.
Familiarity with Browserstack for emulating browser/device environments.
Using Jira Agile/Scrum boards and Google Sheets for issue tracking.
Testing advanced systems like booking flows, queues, and hardware integrations.
Monitoring and testing backends, WooCommerce infrastructure, and engagement for live, high-traffic campaigns.
Limited hands-on familiarity with Postman for inspecting API requests and responses, with an active interest in developing this further alongside Playwright and automated testing.

I use AI for solving complex logic/math problems that save hours of game dev.
AI helps with mapping realistic user journeys (standard and edge-case), building QA checklists, and creating detailed bug templates.

Used Jira a lot for both project management, and issue-tracking.
Highly familiar with Slack and Basecamp.
I use Slack heavily for notemaking, along with the AI notemaking tools for recording notes in calls and meetings.

A little experience building websites using WordPress, Elementor for design, and Local WP for local development and testing.
Working knowledge of HTML and CSS, with basic JavaScript familiarity in a browser QA and debugging context.
Uses browser developer tools to inspect page structure and styling, check console errors, distinguish likely JavaScript faults from HTML/CSS layout issues, and give developers clearer reproduction details.
Have a general gist with hosting platforms such as Cloudflare.

I’ve used Git GUI clients like Fork for easily managing multiple Git projects at once and tracking changes.
With each build I ensure there are detailed change logs and local backups.

Plenty of experience navigating stock sites for images, videos and audio.
Envato Elements is my primary source, but I’ve come to know plenty of alternatives.
Using stock sites to find games for reskinning.

9 x GSCEs (B-C)
B - Computing, English Language, Mathematics, Science, Additional Science, Art & Design, Geography
C - English Literature, Business Studies
BCS Level 2 IT Application Of Skills (Distinction)