Sega looking for games testers (uk)

Games Tester

Date posted: Monday 22nd December
Location: Chiswick, London
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK IN THE VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY?

SEGA’s rapidly expanding European division is looking for bright, motivated and committed people to join its Quality Assurance team as Games Testers.

Getting the chance to work on SEGA titles before they hit the shops, you’ll be responsible for testing our titles to ensure they play as the developers intended them to and that they’re free from any ‘bugs’.

If you’re interested in this opportunity then please download the application form below, complete and send in with a copy of your CV to gamestesters@sega.co.uk.

http://www.sega.com/jobs/Games_Tester_Application_Form_Dec_08.doc

Please note that we are only able to consider applications from people who have submitted both a completed application form and CV.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Carry out specific checks in a consistent and thorough manner as part of a structured test plan

• Ensure that all problems and bugs recorded are done so in an efficient and informative manner in keeping with the standard required for SEGA Europe QA reports

• Write up bug reports to the high standard required by SEGA Europe. This includes using correct naming conventions and displaying a concise style of writing whilst ensuring that all the necessary information (what the bug is, how to recreate it, etc.) is contained within the report

• Use investigative skills to find problems, whilst continuing to complete tasks set by the Project Monitor or Senior Tester
• Ensure that all tasks are carried out efficiently and all instructions are followed accurately and timely

• Assist, where necessary, the Project Monitor or Senior Tester in group-based testing (e.g. multiplayer test). Also provide information considered relevant to overall test at appropriate times and provide suggestions for testing purpose (e.g. in relation to prior similar titles)

• Provide information on the state of sections of assigned titles to Senior Testers and Project Monitors, and when applicable to more senior staff.

Additional:

• If required, the job holder will be expected to work outside normal office hours, including weekends and/or bank holidays, when necessary. The job holder may also be required to work offsite if necessary.


PLEASE NOTE: Your job content may change according to the requirements of the Company, its business and the market in which it operates. You will be expected to carry out additional or alternative duties for the Company as are reasonably consistent with your position or status.


KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experienced games player with the ability to familiarise with game-play elements rapidly
• An ability to recognise and analyse the inadequacies of an implemented system in a product
• Excellent ability in the use of Word, Excel and Outlook
• Amiable and approachable (e.g., to fit into a team environment)
• Pro-activeness to think ahead and identify tasks that need to be carried out and the motivation to complete these on own initiative
• Ability to carry out assigned work when unsupervised
• Confident and professional in dealing other members of the company
• Clear and concise communicator both written and verbally.

 

What's minimum wage in the UK?

 

Sega has game testers now?

Hopefully you don't have to play Bullshit the game.

 

No, but you might just have to endure the next Sonic game! Could you sign off a product like that, knowing all too well it's probably going to hit the market with significant unresolved glitches and more than likely receive a critical mauling anyway due to a series losing its reputation for high quality long ago?

 

£5.73 per hour for workers aged 22 years and older
£4.77 per hour for workers aged 18-21 inclusive
£3.53 per hour for all workers under the age of 18, who are no longer of school age.

Or in real terms not enough to really rent anywhere in London on your own.

 

and try to leak some protos from sega haha!

 

"OK, I'm going to leave you to play this game on your own now. Do you think you can manage that?"

:lol:

 

LOL a games QA tester for sega OMG i think im going to piss my self laughing. Is this a new thing they are going to implement for their games now?????

In fact thats a bit harsh as both let's tap (wii) & phantasy star zero (ds) are outstandingly good games that bear the sega logo.

Id never want to work in the games industry, i love games as a hobby & having to do it as a job would destroy all the fun. That job description is pretty lolworthy though, i love how they have worded certain bits, basically if you get the job wave goodbye to your life as you'll live at sega & if they have any other crap jobs for you to do then you'll be expected to do them as they have added that bit in there too LOL

 

If I understood the basics of debugging, I'd be willing to move to the UK for this shit. It's a foot in the door to greater things.

 

Such a job is a foot to anywhere else than to greater things!
This is really the lowest level job in videogames - even a job as videogame magazine editor is better than this.

It's fun if you are 18 years old and have time left for some experiments - nothing more.

 

It's a very quick way to kill your enthusiasm for gaming.

 

Hmm, agreed that it is a pretty low job. However, it IS a job, and a foot in the door.

The games industry is not an easy one to get into - unless perhaps you're a SUPER AMAZING animator or coder. Then again, you're more likely to be in a really well paid job already if that is the case ;-) Most companies look for experience in the industry working on two or three AAA titles. And guess what, people? THIS WOULD COUNT!!

If anyone's ever heard the old saying that if you want to be a studio engineer, start as the tea boy - it is very true. You won't get a look-in at a studio unless you know someone who realizes your talents or are willing to start with a shitty job and work your way up from the very bottom.

If anyone here wants to be in the games industry but has that attitude of the job being beneath them, look for another industry to work in. I'm surprised that people would slate Sega so much - yes they've had some iffy titles, but don't forget they were one of the big boys not that long ago. Back in the day, we loved them. I'd still be proud to say I worked for Sega.

Of course, it's attitudes like this that are killing off studios. Make one poor game and your name is mud. Make another and it's the beginning of the end.

 

It's a foot in the door for driven individuals already experimenting with a little bit of programming or graphics. A foot in the door is a foot in the door. I know a couple of people that got into development that way. It is harder these days, but not impossible.

 

Yeah, it's absolutely the case. A natural consequence of far too many people after far too few jobs. Still, better odds than the bands...

 

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This is the unfortunate truth. I've known multiple people who have tested or developed. All have come out a few years later hating video games. Long hours. Shit pay etc.

 

I worked QA for a while.

Pay was better than minimum wage and plenty of opportunity for ovetime(X1.5 pay)

Sure you had to play shit games sometimes, but you're in a group of like-minded people chatting and joking all day. Supervisors were pretty cool as long as work was getting done.

There was opportunity to rise up the ranks. Unfortunetly when the reccesion hit they let go of alot of people.

Now this is just my experience at one publisher(THQ).

 

Does SOE have any studios left? or you'll be stuck testing the crap games that SOA and SOJ didnt have the time to check?

 

I believe this may be related to them transitioning back to first party.

As a third party, Sega's business strategy was "Quantity over Quality"

However when one is to sustain and maintain a platform, then quality is of the utmost importance.

 

What platform? they haven't made a console in 10 years!