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Where a digital games tester can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a digital games tester already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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.

Also known as virtual games tester, computer games tester, digital game tester, digital games testers, video games tester.

Professionals 38 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: ICT test analyst, 78%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
ICT test analyst 78% covered ICT integration tester 71% covered ICT system tester 65% covered ICT usability tester 58% covered ICT accessibility tester 52% covered digital games tester You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from digital games tester, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a digital games tester already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A digital games tester needs 9 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • digital game genres arts and humanities
  • replicate customer software issues working with computers
  • provide software testing documentation communication, collaboration and creativity
  • application usability information and communication technologies (icts)
  • levels of software testing information and communication technologies (icts)
  • software anomalies information and communication technologies (icts)
  • execute software tests working with computers
  • report test findings information skills
  • address problems critically communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a digital games tester does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Digital games tester is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a digital games tester’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.