Career Summary

Work as a video game tester is not as easy or as fun as it you may have imagined. However, if you are a true video game geek, it can be lovingly frustrating career opportunity. Video game testing is the ideal way to break into the video game industry. It’s the "foot in the door" so to speak and can be a great stepping stone advancement into new video game careers. Many game designers and programmers have started as game testers so it is still very important to go to college for a degree and you can still work as a video game tester while going to college at the same time.

The key to building a legitimate career in video game testing is to start participating in public beta tests for popular video games – yes these are freebies. But this will allow you to become familiar with what a video game tester actually may do everyday. Details and clear communications are very important. The great thing about beta testing games is that it can be done from home in your spare time. This way you can stay at your current employment or start college. Some video game companies will offer the final version of the game for free or at a reduced price to beta testers. With the video game industry become larger every year, more and more video game tester jobs are being made available. Video game companies spend millions of dollars developing a game and they often need as many beta game testers as possible to iron out all the bugs before releasing it to the public.

A video game tester must be able to demonstrate their ability to play games and give accurate details to all the little details you may have never considered.

• What did you think of the background
• What advertising did you notice during the game?
• What weapons were made available to you for inventory?
• Was the little girl walking across the street wearing a pink or a green shirt?

Video game testers also must be able to use other software for reporting their opinions, suggestions, feelings and answers to testing surveys.

In addition, many testing opportunities will want to know what operating systems you are familiar with. The kind of operating system a game is played on makes a difference. In addition, video game testers must have the ability to communicate both aurally and in written communications, as they have to be able to explain situations to the video games team for whom they are testing.

Video game tester jobs are just like any other job, they can be fun but they can also be boring and tedious. If you want to be a video game tester simply because you want to play video games all day this is not the career for you. Anther career name for video game testers is Quality Assurance Representative. This is the professional name for what you do. You are testing, reviewing and assuring that the game is fun entertainment.