Christopher Haycock

Head of Testing – Certified Agile Leader with 20+ years of quality engineering experience

I lead with clarity, empathy, and high availability, helping teams voice problems early, own their decisions, and grow while we ship.

Signature Initiatives

Led QA strategy, visibility, and coaching for Pascal Audio's pro-audio software portfolio.

Combined hands-on test strategy work with people leadership so risks, scope, and staffing stayed aligned across the software portfolio.

Built psychological safety by translating pressure into clear conversations and keeping engineers supported when decisions were tough.

Scaled a hybrid QA organisation for premium audio and video products while safeguarding release gates across the globe.

Kept on-site leads and remote testers aligned to the same expectations, balancing people leadership, release gates, and stakeholder liaison work.

Held open space for leads to trial ideas, backed them in exec forums, and encouraged thoughtful trade-offs instead of rushed fixes.

Enabled live-ops excellence for Subway Surfers and Blades of Brim through modern QA practices and cross-discipline collaboration.

Kept Subway Surfers and Blades of Brim shipping confidently by embedding QA in the creative loop and formalising release reviews.

Protected morale during constant release cycles, ensuring creatives felt heard and testers had room to provide grounded player advocacy.

Discord bot for the gaming community that combines Perplexity-powered chat, real-time analytics dashboards, and a 1,000-test CI/CD pipeline.

Modern Starsector mod upkeep - automatic fuel and supply gathering with LunaLib-powered configuration, CI validation, and release tooling.