digital games tester

Digital games testers review and test various genres of digital games by playing them in order to find bugs and glitches within the game's functionality or graphics. They may evaluate the capacity of attraction and playability of games. They may also debug the games themselves.

Alternative Labels

computer games tester

digital games testers

digital game tester

video games tester

virtual games tester

Regulatory Aspect

To see if and how this occupation is regulated in EU Member States, EEA countries or Switzerland please consult the Regulated Professions Database of the Commission. Regulated Professions Database:

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/services/free-movement-professionals/qualifications-recognition_en

Skills & Competences

Essential Skills and Competences

address problems critically execute software tests provide software testing documentation replicate customer software issues report test findings

Essential Knowledge

application usability digital game genres levels of software testing software anomalies

Optional Skills and Competences

conduct ICT code review debug software develop ICT test suite develop automated software tests manage schedule of tasks measure software usability perform software recovery testing use scripting programming

Optional Knowledge

Agile project management ICT debugging tools ICT project management methodologies LDAP LINQ Lean project management MDX N1QL Process-based management SPARQL XQuery human-computer interaction principles of animation query languages resource description framework query language software interaction design tools for ICT test automation

Concept URI

Concept Uri

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/33e4f026-a823-4ffc-99e4-60d3fe597a1e

Status

released

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