2K ElizabethQA Manager Scott Wittbecker shares what you need to know if you want to be a professional video game tester in our latest article on jobs in the video game industry.
http://www.firaxis.com/jobs/career.php?page=HTQA09
How to Become a QA Tester
QA Manager Scott Wittbecker shares what you need to know if you want to be a professional video game tester in our latest article on jobs in the video game industry.
http://www.firaxis.com/jobs/career.php?page=HTQA09
just read it, it has some pretty good info for people therethanks Liz!
very interesting,i want to start off as a QA tester soon,thanks for the advice.
wowhats-off to who can get a job like that as a career
DXDIAG? Hm... does that stand for DirectX Digitial Images And Gallery? Doors In A Game? Turns out it stands for Diagnostics Tool. Well, that rules me out (for now).
Kudos to those who have the dedication and endurance for this kind of job. It certainly can do a lot of wear and tear on the body and mind after a while.
But Scott Wittbecker makes it sound like there's a huge payoff at the end (especially if you LOVE games). Sounds like something I might look into.
I agreed with you. Thanks for sharing. It help me to think about for my ideals.Originally Posted by Ureh
DXDIAG? Hm... does that stand for DirectX Digitial Images And Gallery? Doors In A Game? Turns out it stands for Diagnostics Tool. Well, that rules me out (for now).
Kudos to those who have the dedication and endurance for this kind of job. It certainly can do a lot of wear and tear on the body and mind after a while.
But Scott Wittbecker makes it sound like there's a huge payoff at the end (especially if you LOVE games). Sounds like something I might look into.
Apart from that, you also can ref more resources at: Game tester job
Tks again and pls keep posting.
Last edited by hdblue; 06-20-2011 at 11:23 PM.
Uh, this is an incredibly old thread. It's over two years old. If you managed to read the rules you'd find out that once a thread is more than two weeks old, it's best not to revive it.
The necro post reads like a spam, although there's no apparent link...
It's weird how a new poster tells a moderator with over 2,000 posts to "keep posting"
I think the poster dug it up to show the irony of it being posted in the Civ 5 forum!
It's a spambot. A lot of forums now have minimum post counts before you can post links. Posting this sort of thing helps them hit that requirement so they start working in earnest.
fact I'm 11 and have school on Mondays-Friday afternoons. So how can an awesome job like this be made and then I can't do it because I'm to young AND have school!!?
Children do not have jobs. They have hobbies. Tell your mom I said 'hi'.
As just about anyone in QA will tell you, QA is not an awesome job. QA is the job you try to get through to get to a better job in the games industry that actually allows you to have some creative input in the game.
People forget just how many terrible, terrible games come out every year. Those games get QA. Those games unfortunately do not get the most creative designers or the most skilled programmers, which means poor gameplay and lots of bugs. So you play through terrible levels with terrible game mechanics, and hit a bug, and record EVERYTHING that happened to trigger the bug, and a programmer takes a shot at fixing it, and then you do everything you did to trigger the bug again to make sure it got fixed. Unlike in the enterprise software world where you can script a lot of these issues, games typically require you to do everything by hand every time, which means you're going to spend a lot of time doing the same stupid thing over and over and over and over and over.
Also remember that as a gamer you only play the final release of a product. QA is playing the broken version. The version with stand-in textures, animations, and sound effects. The version with entire chunks of gameplay missing. The version where the design team is trying out some new mechanic that you have to tell them is the worst thing to ever happen to gaming, but they need you to be sure so you spend all week playing the game with a focus on this awful mechanic.
You work long hours. You are the lowest paid member of the development team. QA in the gaming industry is not the job you look forward to doing, it's the job you get through so you can work on the design or art or programming teams. If you do QA, either do it in enterprise software or do it with the understanding you'll be moving up from that in the development team ASAP.
You read my mind.
Wonder if ol' 2k-liz forwarded this article to the 2k QA guys that got axed. Happy holidays guys!
QA and CiV. Funniest thing I've read all weekend.
Fixed that for you.Children do not have jobs. They have chores. Tell your mom I said 'hi'.
Hobbies are good, I have hobbies and I like them.
Chores are bad, I havea jobchores and I hate them.
Ok, thanks again. Thats like 3rd time or something.. Soon I'll type whatever gibberish I want and count on you handling spellcheck and thesaurus for me..Fixed that for you.
Hobbies are good, I have hobbies and I like them.
Chores are bad, I havea jobchores and I hate them.
Cheers.
Considering the state of this game on release date I'll pass on this article.
Your profile says you're 23....
Oh yes. I'm going to listen to someone from Firaxis on how to be a QA tester.
Then I'm going to read King Herod's tips on babysitting.
Dude, being a QA tester is a crappy job. Testing is really difficult so you wouldn't want to become one. Which is probably why Civ5 was released as it was (it was too hard to test, so no one wanted to do it).
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