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You can’t deny the popularity of the IT niche nowadays. And game testing companies seems like the dream come true. Lots of games and lots of their variations appear every day and hardcore gam-ers know them all. A nice game is not only mind-stimulating but also helps to visit a new world and gain a new experience. But can you imagine if something will go wrong, freeze, or crash? This won’t be a nice gaming experience at all.

So you can imagine how many people would like to become computer game testing specialists. It’s a popular field among all developers, managers, designers, and everybody else who is engaged with beta games testing. In a way, our team is just like a team of rock stars living their best lives.

Nevertheless, each game QA specialist should have particular skills to manage the work and to make the most of it. We highlight next:

• High level of attentive behavior
• Strong knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle
• Prior experience with all types of consoles and controllers
• Great writing skills to describe the experience
• Great communication skills to talk with another specialist
• Strong knowledge and understanding of computer’s hardware
• Basic knowledge and understanding of coding that in the future can help you to check everything faster and better.

We do believe, that education is not the driving thing for the last several years, but the statistics show that people, who have a degree in anything related to computer science, like programming, development, etc. Many universities and colleges all around Ukraine make sure to provide students with top-notch education regarding programming and development. That’s why you see Ukrainian developers all over the world, occupying the paramount positions in the superb world-known com-panies.

Even if this all sounds like a dream come true, it is not like that. Beta game testing specialists rarely can play as if they were playing with friends at home. They have to check everything carefully, cre-ate and write down the documentation, prepare all kinds of reports, check if the issues are fixed, and many many more.

Yes, you can try yourself in a play testing niche, but be prepared to be tired of gaming. If not, then you are a miracle that we would like to meet someday!

Imagine your client’s game is always crashing right in the middle of the story. For example, the most painful case might be some kind of a shooter or a football mobile game that died just when the gamer started to win.

Besides, you have to be sure, that the security of your video game is top-notch. To ensure that you need game test services that will check everything.

Make sure that all local folders are hidden or unavailable. This check is important since all critical data of the app is located there, including passwords, progress, and even personal data.

Check twice the possibility of hacking coins or whatever currency you have there. This is important during the playtesting to make sure hackers won’t take advantage and abuse it. This will help your user to trust the game more and you always get money since people buy coins and not hack them.

Also, make sure that special offers, extra games, etc. are available for the gamers from different time zones. This ensures that each user gets a reward or some kind of goodies in a specific amount of time that is based on his or her local time. So qa games testing specialists should check this step be-fore releasing the game. We hope you’ll never see sad and mad gamers who’ve lost all their rewards progress because of the time zone.

It is also proven, that when the gamer feels safe in your app, it’s more likely that he or she purchases something, state necessary personal data, and spend more time in your app. So during the qa testing games, check the possibility of logging in with the help of social media accounts. Such accounts are more secure than direct ones, so it is better for everybody to use such an approach.

During the qa for games make sure that all store items are available, the currency is set according to the user’s location, and that no one can withdraw the funds once they are on the account.

If your apps need video games test, you can surely ask SnoopGame for our services. We will gladly go through all the necessary steps of game tests so every user will be deeply satisfied with the pro-cess and experience of gaming.

Game qa makes sure that each player gets a chance to download a safe game, that will be relevant to his or her location. It is rather a must-have than just the best practice. No one will choose a game that is unsafe, has lots of crashes, and is just very attractive to all kinds of hackers.

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The life of a video game beta testing specialist is not just playing games all day. Most of the time they try to break the game in every possible way, write test cases, research, code sometimes, think and drink coffee.

To tell the truth, most days of the video game qa testing specialist consists of:

1. Meeting with the team to discuss current issues, goals, obstacles, and everything regarding the project. Then all specialists adjust their task managers and start working.
2. Working with the team is important. Most things video game testers do, they do together. Such works have more directions, more personal different views on the issue, more opinions, and obvi-ously more communication.
3. Testing. Well, there is no video game test without actual testing. A typical QA specialist creates and updates test cases which consists of manual testing and analysis of pieces that can be automat-ed. Sometimes test cases fall and the specialist has to cooperate with the developer to re-run the is-sue and see all the bugs.

Mobile game testing specialists don’t sit the whole day looking on the monitor trying to spot bugs, they mostly communicate with each other, create documentations, and run manual, automated, or both test cases to create the best app that the final user will love.

We’ve created this list to highlight the main day-to-day tasks of the regular QA specialist:

1. Get specifications
2. Create documentation
3. Discuss issues with developers
4. Plan and execute all testing stages
5. Create and run test cases
6. Find bugs
7. Re-run the testing process
8. Write down the results

And just like any other work, video game testing specialists have hardships and difficult tasks like:

1. Talking to developers
2. Creating the wrong bug priority list
3. Reusing of test scripts
4. Aiming to find the easiest bugs

But, this all above is nothing comparing to the joy of sinking into this marvelous process of creating the perfect game. And it doesn’t matter whether a QA tester has a computer degree or not. We hope that each person just finds what he or she loves and sticks to it.

And we would be happy if the art of gametest grows and becomes more popular and interesting!