What is a Game Tester?

The role of the game tester in game development primarily involves analyzing video and/or computer games to document software defects as part of a quality control process. While popularized as a dream job for gamers, interactive entertainment software testing is a highly technical field requiring computing expertise, analytic competence, thick skin, and the ability to endure long hours.

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There are two major skills
that are absolutely crucial
for a game tester to have.

I’d even go as far to say that even with all your qualifications and experience, without these skills you’d find it very hard to get a game testing job.

What are they you ask?

1. You must be able to communicate effectively.

I’ll put in another way for you:

You must have great communication skills.
By this I mean you need to be able to express exactly what your thoughts are so that everybody is on the same terms and knows how to go about fixing the issue.

2. You must be able to transfer these good communication skills into your writing.

When programmers are reading your bug report, they need to know exactly what the problem is and how to reproduce it. They don’t want to waste any time trying to understand what you have written.

Your writing needs to be clear enough that anybody in could pick up the bug report and understand what the problem is and how to fix it.

Now don’t get me wrong, none of that is easy to do, even for those that are natural speakers or writers. But there are a few relatively easy exercises you can do to improve your communication and writing skills.

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