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Video game testers work in the game development department and test titles to provide quality control for the games. Testing leads, people who worked as a tester for over six years, could expect a salary of $71,000 a year. Video game testers, who tend to be in the 18 to 35 age demographic, are essentially asked to “break” the game, and find all the bugs and software defects so these errors don’t come up during normal play when the title is released.
Depending on your strengths, you could be asked to do a number of different tasks from playing the game through as fast as possible to see if it works to trying the same level over and over again for glitches to trying to load all the different possibilities. Working for a big company like Activision or Sony Entertainment can pretty much ensure big titles to work with, but smaller companies might give you titles that you necessarily wouldn’t want to play.
It’s perfect for the person who loves playing games, and can detail their experience to developers. Video game companies put a lot of money into each title, and they expect their QA testers to find all the problems so there aren’t big issues at the last minute when they are trying to publish.
There are different ways to become a video game tester. Just find the one that suit you more.
