About — QA in the Game Industry

Quality Assurance for games is about finding inconsistencies, glitches, or bugs in the software or game experience. QA involves documenting, reproducing, and reviewing these inconsistencies until they are deemed ok to ship.

Imagine this: you’re an aspiring game developer, fresh out of college, and have managed to land a job at your favorite game company. You couldn’t be more excited to join the team/ Bushy tailed and bright eyed, you walk in on your first day, excited to change the gaming industry as it is known forever with the genius insights you will offer through your newly won position: Quality Assurance Tester.

Record screech. Yeah. If you work in the gaming industry, and you made it past your first day, you know: QA is not a coveted position. In fact, it’s the bottom of the ladder. Maybe even lower than the PA on the production ladder. So it’s no wonder that QA testers, young and hopeful dreamers looking to make a buck or two, after being mistreated by elite game devs who refuse to even look twice at them, they start to shirk their responsibilities.

This is the problem with Quality Assurance.