What is a Video Game Quality Assurance Tester?

Most people have no trouble identifying careers. If you say doctor, people immediately think of a white coat with a stethoscope. If you say construction worker the hard hat comes to mind. But if you're a video game quality assurance tester?! Now that's a pretty hard one to picture. 

To start with, most people don't know what video game testers are, and how they work. Or if they do know they exist, they don't believe it for a minute. So what is a video game quality assurance tester and, most importantly, how can you become a video game quality assurance tester?

Video game quality assurance testers test the quality of the merchandise that is put out by high paying game studios like Microsoft or Nintendo. Just the same, a game tester career involves getting money by playing games from these companies and making sure they play correctly before hitting the market. When you consider there are multi-million dollar launches of games out there happening just about every month,

 it's no big surprise that you can make money by playing games. And by big money I mean several dozen dollars per hour if you manage to work long enough in the game tester career field. Even new comes make above minimum wage at $10 per hour or more.

Now that you know what a video game quality assurance tester is, how do you become one and get a game tester job?! The answer is... Not capable of being explained very easily. There just simply too much that can be said of this career field, but if you want a quick overview, then look no further. A lot goes into getting a job as a game tester, you need:

• A nice resume, try and get some game industry connections or learn a bit of programming
• A lot of patience; don't expect success your first run through the video game tester applications
• Connections in the field so you know when a game testing position opens up, this goes a long way if you're new and you can always refer back to connections you made from long after you get experienced
• A passion for the industry and a real drive to succeed. Although, to be fair, you probably already had that one!
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There are some video game tester career people out there that had only one or two of the above, but they haven't made it nearly as far as others who get paid to play games.

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