Dream Job? FPS software tester

[AreaCode707]

Be the envy of all your video game playing friends with this amazing contract assignment!

Do you want to be successful, challenged and at the top of your game? Working with Excell Data will get you there! We are focused on maximizing your career in an often hectic contracting world. We have contract and full-time direct Software Test opportunities and offer one of the best compensation and benefits packages in the industry! Fast-forward your career by sending your resume to recruiter@excell.com We have an immediate opening for the following:

OVERVIEW:
For this position you will be performing a wide variety of software test activities in support of the release of a sequel to one of the hottest first-person shooter games on the market! Your responsibilities will include writing/editing/running test cases, ad hoc testing, bug tracking, creating test matrices, and documenting metrics. This is a mid-senior level position and you will, at times, be acting as the Test Lead, so your solid communication and teaming skills will be essential to your success. If you like video games, you can?t miss out on this awesome opportunity!

YOUR BACKGROUND:
- 3+ years related software test experience
- Solid software test skills, as well as an in-depth understanding of test methodologies and processes
- Experience performing ad hoc testing, and the ability to develop, edit, and run test cases
- Basic project management / leadership abilities

Nice to have (but NOT required):
- Familiarity with computer games and the game development cycle

Dang! All those times my mother told me to go read instead of playing video games, telling me that I'd never get a job wasting my time like that...

<--- Is well aware that there are more software jobs than editing jobs. *sigh*

 

[fs5]

game testing ain't all it's cracked up to be. Long hours, repetitive, etc.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
game testing ain't all it's cracked up to be. Long hours, repetitive, etc.

Hush, you're ruining my whining about how it's so much easier to find tech work than editorial work. 😉

 

[StageLeft]

I bet the pay blows. And you'd HATE the game after.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I bet the pay blows. And you'd HATE the game after.

Heck, I'm not qualified for the job anyway. *whine whine moan moan*

 

[BCYL]

I got friends who are game testers for EA... They hate their jobs...

The work is repetitive, hours are long, pay really sucks, and there's no future (little chance for promotion or move on to more interesting jobs)...

 

[dquan97]

I wouldn't mind doing it for a day

 

[mchammer187]

Originally posted by: BCYL
I got friends who are game testers for EA... They hate their jobs...

The work is repetitive, hours are long, pay really sucks, and there's no future (little chance for promotion or move on to more interesting jobs)...

yep and in this case all you get to play are FPS games which IMO has plateued and I don't see that changing

Doom3 , yawn

Half Life 2, meh

I dont think I have been truly impressed by an FPS since Quake 1 unless you count metroid prime as an FPS which I dont

 

[Ranger X]

Here's a test plan: Shoot this monster with 500 different weapons and at all different angles

There ... there goes your month!

 

[Spac3d]

Sounds like a crappy job.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Quake 1 GL was a big step up....as well as the Unreal engine....but yeah....it's overdone.

 

[newbiepcuser]

I know Software Developer that use to work for Blizzard, he hated his job and he told me their QA hated their job more.


He told me some of their "QA" people were only paid minimum wage. Then agin, this was back when he was working on WarCraft I.