2k hiring game testers and many other positions

[dmbfan1970]

http://www.2ksports.com/jobs/job.php?newsid=27

[kennyacid]

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To bad I live in New York, Id be perfect for that.

[Shakedowncapo]

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$10 an hour? In Cali? People must be living with family.

[Fiddy]

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they offer this stuff the same time every year

[mjb2124]

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I wanted to do that when I graduated from college with a Computer Science degree until I realized it paid so little. Plus from what I've read, those jobs aren't much fun. It's not so much they let people play the game and report bugs/glitches, but following a test plan and recreating situations.

[ExtremeGamer]

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QA Testing can and does suck, trust me on that.....

[Kccitystar]

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QA Testing can and does suck, trust me on that.....

QA will make you hate the game you play, big time. It sounds fun playing the same game every day but it isn't. You will only learn to avoid that game like the plague when it hits retail.

[ComfortablyLomb]

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I wanted to do that when I graduated from college with a Computer Science degree until I realized it paid so little. Plus from what I've read, those jobs aren't much fun. It's not so much they let people play the game and report bugs/glitches, but following a test plan and recreating situations.

So they don't really have the testers actually test the game in a way that someone might actually use the game...?

[mercalnd]

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So they don't really have the testers actually test the game in a way that someone might actually use the game...?

That would take too long. What you do when testing applications is isolate occurences that may cause problems (also known as limit-cases or boudary cases.) and produce a test plan according to this. Testers are to follow that test plan to the letter. It should also be understood that the point is to find defects, not to identify that a certain aspect could be done better.

[mjb2124]

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That would take too long. What you do when testing applications is isolate occurences that may cause problems (also known as limit-cases or boudary cases.) and produce a test plan according to this. Testers are to follow that test plan to the letter. It should also be understood that the point is to find defects, not to identify that a certain aspect could be done better.

Well said.

I think a common mis-perception is that testers just play the game, come across bugs/glitches and report them. That isn't the case from what I've seen/read. The testers are given a test plan to follow and report bugs/glitches according to that plan (I assume they also mention other bugs they might see, but if it's not on the plan, it can easily be tossed under the rug). Developers then fix the bugs reported and move on.

My guess is a test plan has the tester run over a certain situation X number of times to make sure the desired outcome is the same under different circumstances.

I'm basing much of this off of what I've seen from the testers at a software development company that I used to work for. It didn't produce video games though so I can't really comment specifically in that area.

[jrivera34]

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I've read that it is a good foot in the door for any aspiring game programmer. Pay, hours, and the Q&A itself suck, but you have to pay your dues.

[DrJones]

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That would take too long. What you do when testing applications is isolate occurences that may cause problems (also known as limit-cases or boudary cases.) and produce a test plan according to this. Testers are to follow that test plan to the letter. It should also be understood that the point is to find defects, not to identify that a certain aspect could be done better.

All true, though producers will often ask for feature feedback and "common sense" testing as well.

[The GIGGAS]

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I've read that it is a good foot in the door for any aspiring game programmer. Pay, hours, and the Q&A itself suck, but you have to pay your dues.

Crap.