Console Game Tester

Company Description Blackapple Solutions Ltd (BSL) was founded in 2004 with the mission to provide best-in-class IT consultancy services across the globe. We are a specialist IT consultancy offering services through our consultants/experts on a contingency basis in the UK, Europe, USA and Asia Pacific. We work with a portfolio of high profile multinational clients across all sectors.

Job Description

Job Title: Game Tester Location: Redmond, WA Schedule: 8am-4.45 pm. Tentatively 8-40hrs/week. Compensation: $11/hr for English testers & $14/hr for Language testers Joining Date: ASAP Contract: On-call contract *This is not a work-from-home opportunity. Work must be done onsite. *No part-time work available. The candidate has to be available for all the 8 hours.

Requirements:

• · High School graduate preferred.
• · Must be 18 years or above
• · Intermediate knowledge with PCs
• · Experience with console videogames strongly preferred
• · Experience with Beta Testing a plus
• · Certificate in QA a plus
• · Very open availability preferred (Minimum 4-5 days in a week)
• · Ability to reply to SMS notification at short notice
• · Strong verbal communication skills
• · Knowledge of Gamer Culture a plus
• · Must be legally allowed to work in the US

Skills:

• Ability to identify key bugs or issues and record them diligently
• Good problem solving ability
• Ability to offer feedback to make improvements to the product
• Detail-oriented personality
• Strong team-work
• Flexibility, Adaptability, and Patience

Responsibilities:

• Follow, complete, and update assigned test cases.
• Detect, research, and document software defects in a bug tracking system. Confirm fixes.
• Review product documentation, and report any errors as required.
• Sweeping game builds for bugs and software errors.
• Perform ad-hoc testing procedures to find bugs and game play` issues.
• Working through test plans to check possible in-game combination problems.
• Generating bugs reports, clearly describing how the bugs can be reproduced.
• Checking games for spellings, ratings, technical requirements and legal issues

Qualifications

• · High School graduate preferred.
• · Must be 18 years or above
• · Intermediate knowledge with PCs
• · Experience with console videogames strongly preferred
• · Experience with Beta Testing a plus
• · Certificate in QA a plus
• · Very open availability preferred (Minimum 4-5 days in a week)
• · Ability to reply to SMS notification at short notice
• · Strong verbal communication skills
• · Knowledge of Gamer Culture a plus
• · Must be legally allowed to work in the US

Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.