If you were to ask any avid gamer what he would imagine to be the perfect job, he’d undoubtedly come up with something video game related, more than likely it would be becoming a game tester. Some gamers have the impression that testing games is simply having fun and getting paid for it. It might surprise them, if they get such a job, about how much hard work is involved testing games.
If you want to be a game tester, you’ll be testing games that you like some of the time, and testing games that you can’t stand at other times. You’ll be working in a very competitive industry. Other gamers will envy you and would love to get your job the minute that you drop the ball. They see being a video game tester as a great way to break into a dream industry.
True gamers love to spend their free time playing their favorite video games. They get hooked on some games so much, that they become obsessed with playing them to the highest level. Imagine how great it would be for these gamers to be able to play the latest game releases on the market; better yet to play them before they come onto the market, and to be paid well for doing so. This can easily happen to a gamer who is lucky enough to become a professional game tester.
There are no special skills or training required for becoming a game tester. All that is really needed is the set of basic game playing skills that you acquire from simply playing the games over time. If you enjoy playing games, can pay attention to detail, and concentrate upon playing a game repeatedly to find bugs, you are eminently qualified to do this sort of work.